RWE is planning a 1600 MW coal-fired power plant in Eemshaven together with a

200,000 ton per year (equivalent to 35 MW) post-combustion CO2 capture R&D unit.

They are operating a 10 MW plant in Germany (Niederaussem) at the moment and this

demo plant will serve as an up scaling step in the development of full-scale post-combustion CO2 capture.

RWE intends to increase the level of CO2 capture in their power plant in the years after start-up by building multiple large-scale post-combustion capture plants. By 2016, several million tons of the CO2 from their power plant are planned to be captured. Important R&D interests for the Eemshaven location is the whole CCS chain integration (transport and storage) for the Northern Netherlands