The balanced pathway assumes that the station will closes in 2030.iCCC, Scotland's Carbon Budgets, May 2025, pg 93 The draft CCP assumes it is replaced by "Peterhead 2", with CCS technology, saying it would "connect to the shared infrastructure being developed by the Scottish Cluster to transport the captured CO2 and store it at the Acorn storage site in the North Sea". vDraft Climate Change Plan, Annex 2, pgs 77 & 83
Asked about Peterhead’s future, the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy indicated she was completely constrained from discussing the matter with the Committee.viNZET Committee Official Report, 10 February 2026, cols 43-44
The Acorn project, which both the CCP and the CCC model as coming online...