URS was appointed by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in June 2014 (Consultancy Agreement ref. NHE/CS/URS) to undertake a desk-top selection and review study, to identify potential sites available for the development of a new low carbon thermal power plant that can benefit from the marginal cost of connection to a carbon sink. This scope of works constitutes work package WP1.1 of ETI’s “Incentivisation of thermal Power with CCS” programme. This report presents the conclusions at Stage A of this study, in which URS has identified a list of possible locations for new power stations, and applied qualitative criteria to highlight the highest ranking sites for further discussion and review with ETI.