Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has announced that it has been awarded an £833m contract by Technip Energies to act as the construction partner for Net Zero Teesside Power – an onshore power, capture and compression project and poised to be the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage.

Balfour Beatty will work alongside Technip Energies and GE Vernova – with the support of technology partner Shell Catalysts & Technologies – to construct the large-scale combined cycle gas-powered generation plant for Net Zero Teesside Power, a joint venture between bp and Equinor.

In addition, the company will build the post combustion carbon capture system, which is expected to capture up to 2m tonnes of CO2 per year, before it is compressed and fed directly into the offshore pipeline to be stored under the North Sea by the Northern Endurance Partnership – a joint venture between bp, Equinor and Total Energies.

On completion, it is expected that the new power station will produce up to 742 megawatts of flexible, dispatchable low-carbon power, equivalent to the average annual electricity requirements of more than 1m UK homes.