{"id":19175,"date":"2026-10-27T20:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19175"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:11:56","slug":"scottish-government-approves-peterhead-gas-plant-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19175","title":{"rendered":"Scottish government approves Peterhead gas plant \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Peterhead gas plant will use CCS technology (pic: SSE)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Scottish government has approved the construction of a controversial gas-fired power station at Peterhead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It will be a joint venture with the UK\u2019s SSE and Norway\u2019s Equinor, the same two companies behind the Jackdaw gas field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The developers say the\u00a0plant will be equipped with carbon capture technology that will help the 900 megawatt facility remove CO2 from its emissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By capturing up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 each year, the new station alone would achieve 15% of the UK Government\u2019s target to capture 10 million tonnes annually by 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The plan was submitted five years ago and is expected to support 1,000 jobs in the construction phase, with dozens of long-term roles to operate the plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">SSE Thermal managing director Finlay McCutcheon said: \u201cThis is an important milestone for a project which has the potential to provide the flexible, low-carbon electricity needed to support a renewables-led energy system while creating and sustaining good jobs in the north-east of Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Environmental group Friends of the Earth Scotland say the decision locks Scotland into a dependence on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">North East Scotland Green MSP Maggie Chapman said the existing gas-powered station at Peterhead, which has been generating electricity for four decades, was \u201cScotland\u2019s largest source of climate pollution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daily Business Bulletin:\u00a0Subscribe here for our free morning bulletin of breaking news<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Scottish #government #approves #Peterhead #gas #plant #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peterhead gas plant will use CCS technology (pic: SSE) The Scottish government has approved the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[2306,272,306,22597,419,2333,23706,23705,1761,3477,13263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}