The Peak Cluster project is expected to support more than 2,000 existing jobs in the Derbyshire-Staffordshire region and create 1,200 construction roles to build the pipeline and capture plants.
It is designed to prevent more than three million tonnes of climate-warming CO₂ from entering the atmosphere each year. Ministers have described it as the largest cement decarbonisation project in the world.
Carbon capture and storage (CSS) refers to the process whereby CO₂ produced from power stations and other industrial processes is captured at source, rather than being allowed to escape into the atmosphere and adding to global warming.
Some experts say the CCS process remains remains experimental and untested. MPs on the influential Public Accounts committee described it as “unproven” and said the Government was taking a high-risk gamble given that the expensive technology may not work.
How will the Peak District scheme work?
The proposed pipeline will link Breedon Hope cement works in Derbyshire, the UK’s biggest plant, with the Tarmac Tunstead Cement plant and lime works both near Buxton, the Lhoist lime works also near Buxton, as well as the Holcim UK’s cement plant at Cauldon in neighbouring Staffordshire. The pipeline will also take carbon emissions from a waste energy plant currently under construction near Northwich in Cheshire.
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All the plants involved are well established – in fact the Breeden Hope site first began cement making in the 1920s. The UK’s latest plant near Mold in Wales, scheduled to open in two years time, will be built with its own carbon capture facilities.
How much will the Peaks scheme cost?
John Flint, chief executive of the National Wealth Fund, said: “Substantial private investment, deployed at risk, will be needed to develop and deliver carbon capture projects across the UK.
Spirit Energy CEO Neil McCulloch added: “Through our partnership with Peak Cluster, the MNZ carbon store will decarbonise 40 per cent of the UK’s cement production and help create new, highly-skilled jobs.”
A development consent application for the CCS pipeline is expected to be submitted between July and September 2026.
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