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RWE npower

Windmill Hill Business Park
Whitehall Way
Swindon
SN5 6PB

Tel: +44 (0)1793 892 892 (Dr Phil Evans)
Email:philip.evans@RWE.com
Web: www.rwenpower.com

RWE npower is an integrated energy business, generating around 12% of the electricity used in England and Wales from around 9000MW of renewable, coal, oil and gas-fired power generation. We also supply both gas and electricity to nearly 7million business and residential customers across the UK and are the number one electricity supplier by volume. RWE npower is committed to working towards a future of lower carbon energy generation. Through npower renewables we are one of the UK’s leading renewable energy developers and operators. We operate 19 wind farms in the UK, including the UK's first major offshore wind farm. We have a further 25 in development, including two more offshore wind farms. We also operate 14 hydro-electric power stations and we are supporting the development of marine energy technologies principally through the npower Juice fund, a vehicle created alongside our green energy customer product npower Juice. Co-firing of biomass fuels also forms part of RWE npower’s contribution to the lower carbon economy. At our coal fired stations around 4% of the fuel we use is now biomass – including sawdust and palm kernel expeller. In the last year we generated enough carbon neutral energy to power 200,000 homes. This figure is set to increase with the recent completion of a £3m biomass facility at Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire in October ‘06 and another planned at Aberthaw in South Wales. In Germany RWE Power is developing a project to build the world’s first zero-CO2 coal-based power plant with a gross output of 450MW and integrated CO2 capture. RWE Power is planning to use Integrated Gasification Combine Cycle (IGCC) technology and to commission the plant by 2014. The company is preparing to invest €1 billion in the project. Here in the UK we are undertaking a Carbon Capture and Storage feasibility study focused on our 1428MW coal-fired power station at Tilbury on the Thames Estuary in Essex. The study is examining Amine scrubbing, Oxyfuel and Gasification technologies and also involves our combustion testing facilities at Didcot A Power Station in Oxfordshire.