EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order authorises Net Zero Teesside Power Limited and Net Zero North Sea Storage Limited (together referred to in this Order as the undertaker) to construct, operate and maintain a gas-fired electricity generating station with an electrical output of up to 860 megawatts together with equipment required for the capture and compression of carbon dioxide emissions from both the generating station and a wider industrial carbon capture network in Teesside. The Order also authorises the undertaker to construct, operate and maintain infrastructure for the high-pressure compression of carbon dioxide and the landward part of an offshore carbon dioxide export pipeline. The Order would permit the undertaker to acquire, compulsorily or by agreement, land and rights in land and to use land for this purpose.

A copy of the Order plans and the book of reference mentioned in this Order and certified in accordance with article 45 (certification of plans etc.) of this Order may be inspected free of charge during working hours at bp ICBT Chertsey Road Sunbury on Thames Middlesex TW16 7BP.