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  • EU Energy Infrastructure Priorities: €200bn to be invested in gas pipelines and electricity grids
    18.11.2010
    On the 17th November, the European Commission (EC) adopted its much-expected energy infrastructure priorities for the next two decades. Seven corridors for electricity transport and pipelines are defined as the priorities for reaching the 2020 targets for renewable energy development and energy efficiency and ensuring EU energy security. CO2 transport is notably included as a future key component of EU energy infrastructure.
    See the Priority infrastructure plans
  • EU launches world’s largest CCS funding scheme
    19.11.2010
    On November 9th, the European Commission launched the first call for proposals to allocate the world’s largest CCS funding mechanism. 300 million EU emission unit allowances (EUAs) – today worth about €4.5bn – will be allocated through two calls for proposals for large-scale demonstration projects of CCS and innovative renewable projects through this mechanism.
    The call for proposals is available here.
  • Siemens announces CO2 capture test results
    19.11.2010
    - Siemens Energy has successfully completed the first test phase with its CO2 capture process in a pilot facility at the Staudinger power plant operated by E.ON.
    Process efficiency, the long-term chemical stability of the scrubbing agent and emissions were investigated in the pilot facility under real power plant conditions. After over 3,000 operating hours since commissioning of the facility in September 2009, it has been demonstrated that the post-combustion capture process developed by Siemens (PostCap) attains a CO2 capture efficiency of over 90 percent with practically zero solvent emissions. The energy consumption is significantly lower than comparable conventional processes, says the company.
    Read more at the Carbon Capture Journal
  • 6 Sites bid to host FutureGen`s Carbon Storage
    21.11.2010
    The six bidders are the city of Quincy; Christian County; the city of Tuscola along with Douglas County; Morgan County; Pike County; and the city of Vandalia along with Fayette County, FutureGen spokesman Lawrence Pacheco told the Associated Press. FutureGen hopes to select a site sometime next year.
    Read more at the OilVoice
  • SET-Plan to contribute to reduced CCS costs and delays
    23.11.2010
    In October 2010, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission released an analysis on the ”Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of the SET Plan on the Power Sector”. The study aims at assessing the impact of low carbon technology research, development and demonstration (RD&D) carried on their costs by 2020 and beyond. The main conclusion is that EU climate policy targets will be reached at lower costs thanks to RD&D in line with the SET-Plan. The study also says that the accelerated deployment of CCS plants in the Global SET-Plan scenarios will realize additional emission savings.
    Read the analysis by T. Wiesenthal, A. Mercier, B. Schade, H. Petric and L. Szabó by following the link.
  • The US Environmental Protection Agency further regulates CO2 storage
    24.11.2010
    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designed new regulations to guarantee the safety of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in the US, hoping for faster commercialization of CCS technology. Furthermore, the new measures can answer public preoccupations on CCS as they encompass protection against water pollution and reporting of the CO2 quantities stored.
    Access thepress release here.
  • US: MIT Carbon Sequestration Forum: moving towards CCS deployment in the US
    15.11.2010
    On the 3-4th November, the MIT Carbon Sequestration Forum XI addressed  the ”Critical Questions for Large-Scale Deployment of CCS.” The absence of an explicit policy to control greenhouse gases emissions, the unresolved issue of liability for sequestered CO2 and the lack of public engagement and understanding of CCS remain the challenges in the US.
    Read more
  • EU: EC launches world’s largest CCS funding scheme
    12.11.2010
    On November 9th, the European Commission launched the first call for proposals to allocate the world’s largest CCS funding mechanism. 300 million EU emission unit allowances (EUAs) – today worth about €4.5bn – will be allocated through two calls for proposals for large-scale demonstration projects of CCS and innovative renewable projects through this mechanism.
    Read the call for proposal here.
  • Netherlands: CCS communication: lessons learnt from Barendrecht
    11.11.2010
    Last week, The Netherlands dropped the Barendrecht CO2 storage project, due in part to persistent opposition from the local community. This unfortunate outcome shows to what extent public reluctance can represent a hurdle to CCS deployment and to the mitigation of climate change. Industry, authorities and NGOs increasingly address this issue to prevent similar outcomes for future CCS projects.
    Read more
  • Global: IEA: CO2 price must be $175 a ton to halve the CO2 emissions by 2050
    05.11.2010
    According to Nobuo Tanaka, the head of the International Energy Agency, the price of carbon must rise to 175 dollars (124 Euros) a metric ton in order to halve global emissions by 2050. Current price -15€ per ton- is not high enough to drive investments.
    Access the press release here.
  • Global: Launch of the IEA CCS Model Regulatory Framework
    05.11.2010
    The Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Unit of the International Energy Agency launches the CCS Model Regulatory Framework, a great tool to help national and regional authorities to draw regulatory framework on CCS. The Model Framework provides explanations and examples of existing legislation for 19 key issues.
    Full version of the model framework can be found on the IEA webpage.
  • Algae Harvesting system in three of Australia’s largest coal fired power generators.
    01.11.2010
    The Dutch company Evodos B.V. will provide the Australian CO2 Storage Program with Algae Harvesting systems. MBD Energy has already committed to building test facilities adjacent to their power stations using the Algae synthetizer, which consists in capturing smoke-stack CO2 emissions and reusing them to grow oil-rich algae in solar bioreactors. The system will be improved with Evodos B.V ability to harvest algae in a very concentrated way and at low energy requirements.
    Read more at Newswire Today.
  • Minimizing the CCS energy penalty in oil refineries
    21.10.2010
    The Carbon capture Journal published a paper on Dr. David McKeagan’s study, showing that the modern fluid catalytic crackers in oil refineries can create energy savings and contribute to cut the CCS energy penalty.
    Read the paper here.
  • UK: Emissions Performance Standards (EPS) need additional incentives to drive investments in CCS
    20.10.2010
    London- On October 19th the UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee dedicated a session to the Emission Performances Standards (EPS), to discuss their potential role in encouraging the deployment of CO2 capture and storage (CCS). This hearing was part of the consultation process the Government has opened, with the view towards the publication of a White Paper on electricity market reform in spring 2011. It ensued from the hearing of NGOs on the same topic on the 12th of October. Listen to the session on theParliament TV website or read more here.
  • UK government confirms CCS plans despite spending cuts
    20.10.2010
    The UK government has pledged £1bn to the first UK CO2 capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project despite huge public spending cuts elsewhere. The government confirmed its commitment to providing public funding for four CCS demonstration plants.
    Read E.ONs announcement to withdraw from the competition here or the spending review here. Or read more.
  • Loan guarantees most cost-effective way of incentivising early CCS projects
    19.10.2010
    Government loan guarantees could have a surprisingly high impact on reducing the costs of CCS projects, according to a new paper from Harvard’s Belfer Center comparing different options discussed in the US for incentivising the first CO₂ Capture and Storage (CCS) demonstration projects. The paper ”Analysis of financial incentives for early CCS deployment” written by Mohammed Al-Juaied compares various tax incentives, loan guarantees, cost-sharing grants, ”bonus” emission allowances and contracting for difference on the CO2 emission price. It finds loan guarantees for CCS projects to be highly efficient because 1) they enable a higher debt to equity ratio (debt requires much lower returns than equity for such novel projects), 2) interest costs on debt are reduced thanks to the guarantee, and 3) the amortisation period of a guaranteed loan is longer than that of an unguaranteed loan.
  • The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon awarded contract from ENEL for the Porto Tolle CCS project
    19.10.2010
    The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon has been awarded a contract by the Italian energy provider ENEL, one of the leading energy companies in Europe. ACC will be in charge of conducting a front end engineering and design (FEED) study for ENEL’s Porto Tolle Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Capture Unit Project. The study, which includes the estimation for the capital investment and the operational cost of the CO2 capture unit, will be completed in the first quarter of 2011.
    Access the press release here or more at Maritime & Energy.
  • CCS crucial to reduce industry GHG emissions
    18.10.2010
    The Dutch institute CE Delft has released a report unveiling the technologies able to reduce significantly the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the main manufacturing sectors in Europe. The report was commissioned by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and points to an important role for CCS in these sectors.
    Access the full report from this webpage or read a summary of the report here.
  • Fuel cells technology to be installed at Hatfield CCS demonstration plant
    14.10.2010
    AFC Energy Plc fuel cells technology will be installed at the pioneering CCS demonstration plant at Hatfield, in addition to an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power station. This is the first announcement of fuel cells at a CCS demonstration plant. The power plant in Hatfield was selected last year by the European Commission to be one of the six CCS projects to receive up to €180m in EU funds each, as part of the European Economic Recovery Package (EERP). The money was awarded for a coal gasification electricity plant that could be operating as early as 2014.
    Access the press release here and find more information on the technology here.
  • Scotland drafting CCS Cluster Investment Plan
    12.10.2010
    Scottish Enterprise, a government agency, is working on a Scottish CCS Cluster Investment Plan, to build on the Scottish Government CCS roadmap from early 2010. The underground Scottish area of the North Sea actually has indeed a greater potential storage capacity than the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany combined.
  • Unlikely that Mongstad CCS demonstration plant should be delayed, despite Statoil reservations
    07.10.2010
    On Tuesday, October 5, Norway’s Petroleum and Energy Ministry (MPE) released a statement saying they are considering opening up alternative treatment technologies for the Mongstad gas fired powerplant. The reason, said the group, is that Statoil considers the research to suggest a possibly unacceptable risk posed by the level of nitrosamines in treatment plant, which they claim to be higher than previously assumed.
    Read more in Dagens Næringsliv (in English) or here.
  • UK expresses the need for further EU incentives to support its commitment to CCS
    07.10.2010
    On October 4th at the Carbon SHOW, Chris Huhne, Britain's energy and climate change minister, confirmed once again his call for a CO2 emission performance standard for power plants as well as a 30 percent EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction target by 2020 (on 1990) instead of the current 20 percent. He stressed that this was necessary to secure the investors on the low-carbon future of the economy.
    Read Chris Huhne’s speech to the Carbon show here.
  • European Commission to get involved in Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) promotion
    24.09.2010
    On September 22nd, the European Commission hosted a presentation of a study on carbon footprint methodologies to gather stakeholders’ comments and criticisms in order to shape the final outputs of the study. There was agreement that the Commission should get involved in promoting product carbon footprints.
    The Ernst & Young PCF study and an executive summary can be found here.
  • Spain captures its first tonne of CO2
    22.09.2010
    On September 14th, between 8pm and 10pm CET, the first tonne of CO2 was captured at ELCOGAS’ 14 megawatt (MW) Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant in Puertollano, Spain.
    The pilot plant was built by Spanish engineering company ELCOGAS with the support of the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry and the Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha, southern Spain.
    This is the first industrial-scale pilot plant of its kind in Spain, and ELOCOGAS also promote it as the first IGCC plant dedicated to electricity production and actively capturing CO2 in the world.
    Read the full press release here (in Spanish).
  • A new “CCS ready” coal power plant in the north of Poland
    21.09.2010
    A new coal power plant will be built by 2016-2017 by the company Elektrownia Północ (North Power Plant) belonging to the Kulczyk Holding (private investment fund) in the Gdańsk Region in Poland. It will have a capacity of 2000 MW and is going to be built as CCS ready, what is understood as land preparation.
    The investment cost amounts to 12 to 15 billion PLN (3-4 billion €). The company claims that the project will be based on “highly innovative technologies”, and that the power plant will be built as “CCS ready”. This means that the space allowance is set aside for the specific installations to capture and transport the CO2 for storage. The project is supported by the public authorities.
    Access the press release here (Polish only).
  • ESA says yes to industry support
    21.09.2010
    The Surveillance Authority, ESA has approved the Norwegian notification on research funding for CO2 capture projects dealing with emissions from point sources in the industry.
    - Technology development will be achieved through the industry. We need more heavy industrial players to lift technologies for commercial application. The extended mandate will attract more industry players and will broaden technological development. We are already in dialogue with industriel actors. We can now go ahead with the application process and promote projects for the program, "says technology director Klaus Schöffel in Gassnova.
    Read more (in norwegian).
  • New CCS study confirms need for additional measures to EU ETS
    20.09.2010
    A study recently released by the National Technical University of Athens on the future of CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies argues that widespread European investment in renewable energies will depress the carbon price of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which in turn could undermine the case for investment in CCS. The study thus confirms the need for a lower cap on emissions in the ETS or complementary measures to the ETS to offer regulatory certainty to investors in CCS.
    The study, entitled "EU Energy Trends to 2030" and written by Professor Pantelis Capros, was commissioned by the European Commission. Capros argues that widespread European investment in renewable energies will reduce demand for carbon emission permits by 2020, thus depressing the carbon price and reducing investment incentives for CCS. The study concludes that the carbon price will rise just 7 percent to the equivalent of 16.5 euros ($21.59) per tonne of CO2 in 2020 and 18.7 euros per tonne in 2030.
    Read the study.
  • New CCS chemical solvent could save 20 percent energy input
    19.09.2010
    German utility company RWE, chemical company BASF, and German engineering company Linde have announced that a new chemical solvent which separates CO2 from a power plant’s flue gas may save over 20 percent on energy input to the CO2 capture process, as well as reducing overall solvent consumption.
    The testing of this new technology began in 2009 at a pilot plant at RWE’s Niederaussem power station near Cologne. The pilot plant is part of the Coal Innovation Center of RWE Power. BASF is testing the newly developed solvents while Linde was responsible for pilot plant engineering and construction.
    The companies have issued a press release stating that their tests show that this new solvent can notably reduce energy input and have clearly superior oxygen stability, which reduces solvent consumption significantly.
    Read the joint press release here.
  • South Africa launches CO2 storage atlas
    16.09.2010
    The South African Minister of Energy Dipuo Peters recently launched the first atlas of South Africa’s CO2 geological storage potential.
    The research project represents a joint partnership between the South African government, public bodies and industry, including the South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI), PetroSA, Petroleum Agency of South Africam, Anglo American, Eskom, Sasol and the research centre Council for Geoscience.
    The atlas project forms part of the recently established South African Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage.
    Read the full press release for the atlas project here.
  • American Recovery Act to fund 22 CCS R&D projects
    10.09.2010
    On September 7th, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that $575 million (€449 million) from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be invested into 22 CO2 capture and storage (CCS) R&D projects. These initiatives will complement the other CCS demonstration projects already being funded through the Act.
    The projects have been selected from four different areas of CCS R&D, namely large scale testing of advanced gasification technologies; advanced turbo-machinery used to lower emissions from industrial sources; post-combustion CO2 capture technologies with increased efficiencies and decreased costs; and geological storage site characterization.
    Within these areas, the US Department of Energy (DoE) has confirmed that at least $90 million (€69 million) will go towards five different projects that "develop technologies for CO2 capture for industrial systems with application to power plants."
    Read the US Department of Energy’s press release as well as a detailed list of projects.
  • Germany’s comprehensive energy supply strategy aims to secure two of the twelve EU CCS demo projects by 2020
    09.09.2010
    Chancellor Merkel presented her coalition’s draft energy strategy – to be voted in the cabinet 28th September – as a “revolution for energy supply”.
    Merkel announced that its entire revenue from the sale of CO2 emission allowances will be spent on renewable energy (RES) and other climate friendly investments. The share of RES in the gross electricity consumption is planned to reach 35 % in 2020; 50 % in 2030, 65 % in 2040 and 80 % in 2050.
    View the draft energy strategy here.
  • Germany drafts CCS law
    05.09.2010
    On September 1st, a bill was presented by the German environment and economy ministries to regulate geological CO2 storage for the first CCS demonstration plants. The draft CCS law was welcomed after much internal dispute within the German government, but Germany has still to produce a comprehensive CO2 storage law which would cover more than the first demonstration plants.
    Read more
  • EBRD loans € 200 million to CCS-ready Slovenian plant
    01.09.2010
    The European Bank for Reconstruction and development (EBRD) has recently approved a €200 million loan to Slovenia's state-owned thermal power plant, Termoelektrarna Šoštanj, to co-finance its modernisation programme. The plan involves the construction of a 600 megawatt (MW) unit which will be CCS-ready.
    Read more
  • UK CO2 subsea storage
    27.08.2010
    The UK Government has set out how it will license the storage of carbon dioxide under the sea bed, following responses to its recent consultation on the geological storage of CO2.
    “Carbon capture and storage is essential for mitigating climate change while maintaining energy security. There is enough potential under the North Sea to store more than 100 years worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the UK’s power fleet and we need to make the most of that”, said Charles Hendry, minister of state for energy, in DECC’s press release.
    DECC will now submit the regulations to the UK parliament in order to comply with EU rules on underground storage of CO2. The regulations will take place on October 1st.
    The regulations will apply in all offshore areas within UK jurisdiction. The regulations shall not apply in Scottish territorial waters, as the Scottish government is writing up its own separate regulations.
    DECC press release
  • UK still plans EPS for power plants
    22.08.2010
    In a letter to British newspaper The Guardian, British energy and climate minister Chris Huhne insisted that he is still considering an Emission Performance Standard (EPS) for CO2, contrary to a media report published by the newspaper on August 16 which suggested the government was abandoning the idea.
    Read Mr Huhne’s reaction to the media report here, the media report in The Guardian and a full article on this topic in the environmental newservice ENDS.
  • Regulatory Assistance Project publish summary of EPS across US
    19.08.2010
    The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) research staff have prepared an informative and up-to-date summary of Emissions Performance Standards (EPS) that have been adopted by various states in the United States, entitled “Emission Performance Standards in Selected States”.
    Access the full summary here.
  • New study sheds further light on CCS for tar sands
    15.08.2010
    A new paper by Joule A. Bergerson and David W. Keith published on August 12 in Environmental Science and Technology entitled “Does carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) make sense in the oil sands?” looks at whether it makes sense to make reductions in oil sands greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) using CCS and biomass co-firing. The paper finds that the choice of lifecycle analysis used determines whether CCS for oil sands makes sense on paper, but overall the authors conclude that investing in CCS for oil sands would represent a very harmful “first major step into extra-heavy unconventional oil”.
    Read the paper here
  • US awards €16.5 million to CO2 storage research
    13.08.2010
    U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on August 11th his decision to award $21.3 million (€16.5 million) to 15 projects to develop technologies aimed at safely and economically storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations. According to Chu, this funding decision is part of the US administration’s commitment to ‘lead the world in carbon capture and storage technology’.
    Read the announcement of the US Department of Energy here.
  • Carbon price vital for CCS says Obama’s task force
    13.08.2010
    US president Obama’s ’Interagency Task Force on CCS’ delivered on August 12 a report describing a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming the barriers to the ’widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years’. According to the report a price on carbon as well as public funding are key towards achieving timely commercial viability of CCS.
    Access the full report of the ‘Task Force on CCS’ here
  • Report confirms CCS for biomass and industry
    12.08.2010
    A report from the Wupperthal institute carried out for the German ministry of environment confirms that CCS in Germany should focus more on curbing emissions from industry and biomass, as opposed to on coal-fired power plants only.
  • US awards €750 million to CCS oxy-combustion project
    10.08.2010
    U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin announced on August 5th the awarding of $1 billion (€750 million) in Recovery Act funding to the FutureGen alliance for the implementation of a pioneering CO2 capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois using oxy-combustion technology. This move aims to establish the US as ‘a leading player in an important part of the global clean energy economy’.
    Access the announcement of U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin on FutureGen 2.0 here.
  • Strategic partnership formed between TPG and 2Co to provide CCS solutions
    26.07.2010
    TPG Capital, one of the biggest private equity investment firms in the world, announced earlier this month that it will provide backing for engineering company 2Co Energy Limited in the areas of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
    Specifically, 2Co Energy announced that it plans to provide CO2 storage solutions for CCS projects seeking UK and EU funding.
    “We believeTPG Capital’s commitment to 2Co Energy is the first significant private equity commitment to CCS. Our initial focus will be on the North Sea and is a direct response to the policy signals and support shown for CCS in both the UK and the EU,” explained Lewis Gillies, 2Co Energy’s Chief Executive in the company’s press release.
    Read the full press release here.
  • Commission adopts legislative proposal to end coal aid
    20.07.2010
    In a decisive move towards the EU’s goal of a low-carbon economy, the European Commission has adopted a proposal to ban state aid to loss-making hard coal mines in Member States (MS) by October 2014. Any mines operating in the meantime can receive state aid only if they hold a definitive closure plan. This is a significant improvement from the draft proposal presented by the Commission’s competition department last month.
    Read the Commission press release here and access further background information here.
  • Stakeholder meeting held on CCS Directive
    15.07.2010
    A stakeholder meeting on the draft guidance documents under the EU Directive 2009/31/EC on the Geological Storage of CO2 – also known as the CCS Directive – took place on July 15th at the European Commission in Brussels. All four of the draft guidance documents intended to aid Member States as they transpose the directive into national law before June 2011 were presented and discussed. The guidance document on Articles 19 and 20 on Financial Security and Contribution produced the greatest response from stakeholder attendees.
    The guidance documents will be subsequently adopted in November.
    To access the draft guidance documents and for more information on the CCS Directive, visit theCommission’s website.
  • CCS application in gas-fired power stations gaining ground in the UK
    12.07.2010
    Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE) announced its decision to go forward with a CCS project at its gas-fired power station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. This announcement comes right after recent advice issued by the UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to the UK Government for CCS equipment fitting to all new gas-fired power stations.
  • UK: Department of Energy and Climate Change says new CCS competitions to be launched this year
    09.07.2010
    The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change will launch the selection process for three new carbon capture and storage demonstration projects "before the end of this calendar year," as part of the UK's goal to have four CCS demonstration plants up and running by 2025.
    The first competition was launched by the previous Labour government in 2007. Scottish Power's coal-fired Longannet plant in Scotland and E.ON UK's coal-fired Kingsnorth in Kent are the only two contenders left in that competition.
    From platts.com  
  • US: DOE Approves $67 Million for 10 Carbon Capture Projects from Coal Combustion
    08.07.2010
    The US Department of Energy announced on July 7th the selection of ten projects aimed at developing advanced technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal combustion.  The projects, valued at up to $67 million over three years, focus on reducing the energy and efficiency penalties associated with applying currently available carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to existing and new power plants.
  • From Nanopatentsandinnovations.bloggspot.com and Environmenta lExpert China: CNPC building CCS project in Inner Mongolia
    09.07.2010
    China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is building a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Inner Mongolia. The facility will be located at a coal-to-liquids plant owned by Shenhua Group in Ordos. CNPC is investing CNY210m (USD31m) in the project, which is scheduled for completion by the end of the year. The firm says the facility will capture 100,000 tons a year of carbon dioxide, to be expanded to 1m tons and 3m tons over two stages.
    From StrategyEye and China CSR   
  • Washington: New papers from CSLF
    23.06.2010
    The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) has released a new series of papers that present, in an easy-to-read format, answers to some of the most common issues surrounding carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.  The papers cover such topics as: Why Carbon Capture and Storage?  Is Geologic CO2 Storage Safe?  Underground CO2 Storage: A Reality?  CO2 Capture: Does it Work? CO2 Transportation: Is it Safe and Reliable?  
    To view the papers, visit the CSLF Web site  
  • CANADA: Aiming to capture carbon by 2012
    28.0.2010
    A group looking to reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions hopes to have a pilot project operating in Nova Scotia to store carbon gases by 2012.
    Read more at the Chronicle Herald   
  • UK: Study on CO2 storage in carbonates announced
    27.05.2010
    The UK-based company Energy Technologies Institute has announced that it will carry out an in-depth study of the availability and distribution of suitable minerals and technologies that could be used to economically capture and store CO2 emissions as solid carbon products. These products can then be safely stored underground or turned into useful products such as bricks.
    Read more   
  • ABU DHABI: Masdar completes prequalification process for carbon capture project
    26.05.2010
    Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) has compiled a list of firms it wants to bid on its first major carbon capture and storage project in the emirate and hopes to release a formal tender for the contract in the third quarter of the year. The deal covers the construction of facilities to capture and process up to 800 000 tonnes a year (t/y) of carbon dioxide produced at Emirates Steel Industries’ Mussafah steel rolling mill. Contractors expect an award by the end of 2010 or in the first quarter of 2011. The project will be the first of various sustainable energy and carbon capture and storage schemes which the company, wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, plans to develop.
    Read more at Power-Gen   
  • THE NETHERLANDS: EU State Aid - Netherlands Is Authorised To Provide Upto €10 million Sate Aid For Nuon's CO2 Capture Project
    26.05.2010
    The European Commission has authorised The Netherlands to provide a grant of €10 million to Nuon Energy Sourcing NV for a CO2 capture demonstration project. The project will be carried out at the Nuon power plant in Buggenum with the aim of optimising the energy efficiency of CO2 capture. The Commission concluded that the aid is in line with EU state aid rules, because on balance, the positive effects of the measure outweigh the potential distortions of competition.
    Read more at eGov monitor    
  • FRANCE: Carbon-capture demonstrator
    25.05.2010
    The EDF Group, in partnership with Alstom and Veolia Environnement, is creating a research demonstrator for the capture and storage of CO2 at Unit 4 of EDF’s thermal electricity plant at Le Havre, France.
    Read more at The Engineer and MarketWatch
  • FRANCE: Total working on French CCS project – The France Nord project
    25.0.2010
    Total announced that the French Environmental and Energy Management Agency, or ADEME, selected a multinational consortium to move ahead with the so-called France Nord project. The project aims to explore the feasibility of installing infrastructure to transport and store carbon dioxide in a sedimentary basin in northern France.
    Read more at UPI.com   
  • SPAIN: Endesa, CIUDEN & Foster Wheeler officially sign CCS contract with European Commission
    21.05.2010
    Spanish energy company Endesa, CIUDEN - the primary Spanish government institution for the development CCS - and Spanish engineering company Foster Wheeler have officially sign the contract with the European Commission to develop CCS technologies in a 300 megawatts electrical (MWe) oxycombustion plant at Endesa's Compostilla power plant site in El Bierzo, northwestern Spain. The project has been allocated 180 million euro in subsidies from the European Commission's European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP), which will fund the first phase of the project.
    Access the press release online in Spanish orENP Newswire
  • CHINA: China and Australia has launched web-page for geological storage of CO2
    20.05.2010
    The China Australia Geological Storage of CO2 (CAGS) Project is a collaborative project that aims to help accelerate the development and deployment of geological storage of carbon dioxide in China and Australia.
    See the web-page for more info
  • ITALY: Presentation of ENEL`s CCS Demonstration Projects
    11.05.2010
    A summary of ENEL`s CCS Demonstration Projects were given at the CO2GeoNet Open Forum in Venice May 2010.
    Read the presentation here
  • UK: UCL publishes overview of EU Directive for CCS
    18.05.2010
    The University College London (UCL) Carbon Capture Legal Programme (CCLP) has recently published an in depth overview of the requirements set out in the 2009 EU Directive on Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Directive 2009/31/EC).  The UCL overview describes the basic structure of the liability regime in the Directive.
    Read more on the Bellona website or access the full overview online and a copy of the Directive.
  • NETHERLANDS: Dutch government commits €150million to large-scale CCS project
    18.05.2010
    The Dutch government has committed €150 million towards the Rotterdam Capture Storage and Demonstration Project (ROAD), which is a partnership of energy companies E.ON, Electrabel and GDF Suez, and which has already received a pledge of €180 million from the EU. The project involves the capture and offshore storage of CO2 from a new power station in Rotterdam. During the demonstration phase it is expected that at least four million tonnes of CO2 will be sequestered underground.
    Read more  
  • EU: New report on the future of EU by 2030 stresses need for common energy policy
    15.05.2010
    The Reflection Group on the future of the EU, appointed by EU heads of state and government, has published its report “Project Europe 2030: Challenges and Opportunities”, which highlights the importance of a common energy policy in the EU. The report also explains that the deployment of key technologies such as CCS must be backed by firm decision-making regarding appropriate levels of subsidies at EU level, a legal framework which is sorely needed and a roadmap for developing CCS beyond the demonstration phase.
    Read the full report here.
  • NORWAY: SASOL signs agreement with Gassnova on participation in the Technology Centre Mongstad
    03.05.2010
    The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and the South African energy company SASOL signed on May 4th an agreement whereby SASOL enters as a new participant in the technology centre for CO2 capture at Mongstad (TCM). The agreement states that SASOL acquires a share of the Norwegian State's obligation equivalent to 2.44 percent.
    Read the press release (in Norwegian).
  • USA - Senate Energy Committee adds CCS and wind amendments to energy bill
    10.05.2010
    On Friday, the Senate Energy Committee approved nine amendments promoting energy efficiency, carbon capture, and research and development. According to the committee, the new standards would save $33 billion kilowatt-hours of energy and 22.5 million megatons of CO2 emissions by 2020.
    More on this in coming weeks and months as the details emerge.
  • US - Interagency Task Force on CCS meets for first time
    10.05.2010
    The task force is comprised of 14 executive departments and federal agencies and was established by a presidential memorandum on February 3, 2010. The task force, which is co-chaired by DOE and EPA, is charged with proposing a plan to overcome the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of carbon capture and storage within 10 years, with a goal of bringing five to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016. Their plan is due to the president in August 2010.
    Read more at The Carbon Capture Journal
  • CHINA - China's first carbon capture demonstration project has captured nearly 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide after one year operation
    09.05.2010
    The demonstration project is located in Huaneng Beijing thermal power plant, which involved a total investment of 21 million yuan in equipment, with annual capacity of about 3,000 tonnes, and recovery rate of 85 percent.
    So far, it has formed a daily carbon capturing capacity of 12 tonnes, and has been put into commercial usage. All the captured carbon dioxide is sold at 500 yuan/tonne while its operation cost is only 300 yuan/tonne.
    Read more atiStockAnalyst
  • NORWAY - Major setback for CCS in Norway
    04.05.2010
    The Norwegian government said it would delay the decision to finance the Mongstad CCS project to 2014, - after the life of the present parliament. In addition, the government removed the requirement of storing captured CO2 at Mongstad.
    “Building a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) facility at Mongstad in western Norway was proving too complex to do on schedule”, said Oil and Energy Minister Terje Riis-Johansen.
    The Mongstad project, developed by oil firm Statoil, was seen as one of the first to start full-scale operation. It is also a prestige project for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who once called it Norway's "moonlanding" project.
    Read more at Planet Ark  
    Debate in norwegian at NRK (The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) 
  • European Parliament environment committee votes to allow Member States CO2 regulation of power plants
    The European Parliament’s environment committee voted Wednesday, May 4th to allow national CO2 emission performance standards (EPS) for power plants, as part of the forthcoming EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). Now, negotiations with the Member States will follow to secure a second reading agreement on the directive.
    Read more at the Bellona web-site
  • NORWAY: New research lab will lower price of CO2 capture
    03.05.2010
    The CO2-capture lab is built in relation to the SOLVit project, an eight year-long joint research and development programme on CO2-capture. Norwegian research institute SINTEF, NTNU and Aker Clean Carbon are participants in the project, aiming at developing a better understanding and a more efficient and cost-effective technology for amine CO2-capture. With a budget of 317 million NOK (equalling €36/US$46m), the project is one of the biggest in the world of its type. Gassnova and the CLIMIT program are financing the project.
    The laboratory at Tiller in Trondheim is simulating industrial conditions. The 33 metre-high tower and a 25 metre-high scrubbing column are the sort of heights that would be needed in an industrial scrubber.
    Read more at theBellona web-site  
  • BRUSSELS - CO2 emission performance standard to be investigated, says Hedegaard.
    30.04.2010
    EU climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard told the European Parliament’s environment committee on April 26th that she did not rule out CO2 emission performance standards (EPS).
    Read more  
  • EU - The realities of storing carbon dioxide
    28.04.2010
    ZEP has published a paper on CO2 storage capacity issues as a response to CO2 storage capacity issues raised by Ehlig-Economides & Economides
    The publication by Ehlig-Economides & Economides 2010 sought to demonstrate that CCS is not technically or economically feasible, based on a supposed lack of underground CO2 storage capacity. ZEO consider this to be a serious misrepresentation of the scientific, engineering and operational facts surrounding CCS.
    Read the report on ZEPs web-page
  • NORWAY: CO2 field lab launches web-page
    28.04.2010
    The project aims to develop and set standards for monitoring CO2 storage. This tri-national project partnership between Norway, France and England has already obtained the Eurogia+ label for its efforts. The Svelvik ridge in Norway has been chosen as a field laboratory, where CO2 can be injected into permeable rocks in a well-controlled and well-characterized geological environment. CO2 will be injected to obtain underground distributions that resemble leakages.
    Visit the web-page
  • SPAIN: Government transposes EU Directive on geological storage of CO2 into national law
    19.04.2010
    The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the transposition of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of CO2 into national law, which establishes a legal basis on which to deploy CCS in Spain in a manner which is regulated and environmentally friendly.
    Read more andpress release in spanish
  • GERMANY - Vattenfall CCS newsletter highlights biomass and lignite co-firing
    16.04.2010
    Energy company Vattenfall AB – Europe's fifth largest generator of electricity – has recently released their latest CO2 capture and storage (CCS) newsletter. The last issue discusses the huge potential found in lignite and biomass co-firing according to the company’s research.
    Read more.
  • IRLAND - CO2 storage offshore Irland
    13.04.2010
    The Irish oil and gas company Providence Resources Plc said its Kish Bank Basin offshore Ireland might be suitable for gas storage and carbon sequestration. They estimate a carbon storage capacity of up to 270 million tonnes and emphasized the close proximity to Dublin as a competitive advantage for gas storage.
    Read more at Reuters
  • Fortum and Maersk co-operate on CCS project in the North Sea
    Maersk Oil will investigate the possibility of providing final CO2 storage in the depleting oil and gas fields of the Danish North Sea, as well as the potential use of CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). The aim is to capture, transport and store in excess of 1.2 million tonnes CO2 per year.
    Read more
  • ABU DHABI: Statoil betting big on carbon capture technology.
    16.04.2010
    A Norwegian state company intends to partner the UAE in the field of energy, accumulate and store carbon dioxide, and develop and increase the production of oil and gas fields.
    Read more at gulfnews.com 
  • GREECE: PPC announces tender for new lignite unit at Ptolemaida.
    16.04.2010
    PPC published on April 14th, a tender for the construction of a lignite power plant at Ptolemaida. Greece appears to be moving forward with coal-powered energy units without considering current or future application of CCS. A setting of stringent limitations in the amount of emissions released by the Ptolemaida unit by the Greek government in the form of CO2 emission performance standards (EPS) could appear as an incentive for the industry to accelerate the deployment of all low-carbon ways of meeting energy, including CCS. If Ptolemaida is built without crystal-clear conditions for capturing and storing CO2 emissions in the future, it may turn into a "carbon price time bomb" as the price of CO2 emissions in the EU is expected to rise considerably in the next decade.
    Read the full article here (in greek).
  • NETHERLANDS: Public debate revisited on Barendrecht CO2 storage.
    15.04.2010
    Public debate about the CCS project at Barendrecht, the Netherlands, after a television documentary last week revealed that a report on the geology of the area was withheld from the public eye by the government. Although the report is not deemed to be a serious scientific source of information by Dutch academia, the event has highlighted the importance of public engagement for CCS.
  • SOUTH AFRICA: World Bank shocks globe with huge loan to CO2 emitter.
    09.04.2010
    The World Bank has voted in favour of a $3.75 billion loan to South Africa'a Eskom for the contruction of a coal-fired power plant in the city of Medupi, which will become the world's largest CO2 emitting plant. The US abstained from the vote, as did Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and Norway. In a statement, the US treasury department said the loan was incompatible with the World Bank's stated commitment to promoting low carbon economic development. For many environmentalists, however, abstention did not represent a satisfactory response.
    IHS Global Insight comments are found here.
    The World Street Journal article is found here.
  • SPAIN: Government transposes EU Directive on geological storage of CO2 into national law
    09.04.2010
    The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the transposition of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of CO2 into national law, which establishes a legal basis on which to deploy CCS in Spain in a manner which is regulated and environmentally friendly. The text will now be remitted to Congress for its transposition into national law. Both the central and the regional governments will be responsible for its implementation. The transposition regulates the allocation and monitoring of storage permits and sites, the procedure of sealing a storage site and subsequent transfer of responsibility. It also stipulates the sanctions that will be imposed in case of misuse of the storage permit or accident.
    Read more here (in spanish).
  • UN launches CCS roadmap project
    15.03.2010
    The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and the GCCSI announced a new joint project to develop a technology roadmap for CCS in February. The €500,000 project will be completed by the end of 2010, and aims to inform policymakers and investors about the potential of CCS and the practical milestones that need to be achieved to realize that potential. Finish VVT and Norwegian Sund Energy will perform studies on hence CCS in the Nordic countries and CCS on renewables in the Nordic countries.
    View the press release or information on Sund Energy`s webpage.
  • EU: ECF launches Roadmap 2050
    13.03.2010
    The European Climate Foundation (ECF) launched "Roadmap 2050: A practical guide to a prosperous, low-carbon Europe" in Brussels, a study that analyses the technical and economic feasibility of different pathways towards achieving a minimum of 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions below 1990 levels by 2050, in a manner that maintains today's energy security and economic prosperity. The study also finds that CCS is an essential component of all pathways, regardless of the percentage of energy production made up by renewables, as it is assumed to be applied on half of all heavy industry. The report also highlights the additional CO2 emission abatement potential of combining biomass combustion with CCS.
    Access the full ECF study here.
  • UK: Awards FEED study funding
    12.03.2010
    The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has awarded funding for Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies to both the remaining entrants in the UK’s current CCS competition. The projects are at Kingsnorth, led by E.ON and at Longannet, led by ScottishPower. The studies will be completed within a year, after which the final competition winner will be announced.
    View the press release.
  • GERMANY: EU approves grant for steel CO2 capture project in Germany
    11.03.2010
    The European Commission has given the green light to a €30.2m state aid fund for a low-carbon project run by steelmaker ArcelorMittal in Germany. The project will capture CO2 from installations and put the remaining flue gases back into the furnaces to generate heat and reduce coke use. It is an important step towards CCS for steel-making.
    Read more at theCCS association webpage
  • EU: Project studies CCS public communications strategies across Europe
    10.03.2010
    Public understanding of groundbreaking technologies such as CCS is an important precondition for their large-scale deployment. In order to inform the design of future public communications programmes, a new project is undertaking a comparative study of CCS programmes across Europe. “Scrutinizing the Impact of CCS Communication on the General and Local Public (Impact of communication)” is a project led by the German Institute of Energy Research, Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (IEF-STE). It was launched to develop recommendations for communication strategies aimed at increasing public awareness of CCS.
    Visit the project site here.
  • By 2030, 10 % of EU CO2 emissions could be avoided by using CCS.
    March 2010
    A new brochures from the European Commission states that CCS can be the second most effective measure for reducing European CO2 emissions after energy efficiency and before renewables. By 2030, 10 % of EU emissions could be avoided by using CCS.
    Download brochure
  • CCS needs tighter emission standards
    24.02.2010
    Unless the UK energy bill mandates tighter emissions standards for coal-fired power stations, the UK will miss its carbon-cut targets
    Read more at the Guardian
  • Saudi Arabia speeds up CO2 plans
    15.02.2010
    State oil giant Saudi Aramco plans to inject CO2 into the world's biggest oilfield - The giant field Ghawar - by 2012, a year ahead of previous plans.
    Read more at Upstreamonline.com
  • Obama announces CCS task force
    08.02.2010
    President Obama has released a Presidential Memorandum creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage. The task force will seek to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of clean coal technologies. The President called for five to ten commercial demonstration projects to be up and running by 2016
    Read more at Carbon Capture Journal
  • UCL Carbon Capture Legal Programme launches website
    05.02.2010
    The Carbon Capture Legal Programme (CCLP) was set up in June 2007 to provide an updated, open access to legal resources and policy developments relevant to the analysis of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) across various jurisdictions and for the benefit of all CCS stakeholders.
    Access the UCL CCLP website here  
  • Obama announces creation of CCS Task Force
    05.02.2010
    - US President Barack Obama has announced that a new Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force is in the process of being created as part of an overall effort to develop cleaner coal-based technologies.
    Read more on CCS in the US here
  • Carbon market uncertainty may contribute to unaffordable energy bills in UK
    05.02.2010
    - An inquiry conducted by UK electricity and gas regulator Ofgem anticipates unaffordable future spikes in energy prices. This has, in turn, fuelled concerns over energy security in the medium term. Ofgem highlights five different issues which must be addressed. One of these key points is the uncertainty caused by future carbon prices, which is seen to be delaying and deterring much-needed, wide-scale investment in low-carbon technologies.
    Read more in The Guardian. 
  • £2bn bid for carbon capture pipelines in Northern UK
    03.02.2010
    - A £2bn bid to take greenhouse gases from some of the UK North East’s worst polluters and store them under the North Sea has been announced.
    The region’s case for carbon capture and storage (CCS) would see pipelines from Teesside and the Alcan factory in Lynemouth, Northumberland, link together and store CO2 under the sea.
    Read more
  • Micronesia wins first round
    29.01.2010
    - Following Micronesia’s challenge of Czech utility conglomerate CEZ’s project to expand the Prunerov coal-fired plant, the Czech authorities have granted the request of undergoing a Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) by an independent body in order to assess the impact of the plant extension on the environment.
    Read more at the Bellona Web
  • New report on CCS in Poland analyses important to-do list
    29.01.2010
    - A new report commissioned by the British Embassy in Warsaw and the Polish research institution demosEuropa Centre for European Strategy offers a detailed analysis of the way forward for CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in Poland.
    The full report
  • Canada has started looking at developing guidelines for storing CO2 underground
    27.01.2010
    Alberta’s government has started looking at developing guidelines for storing CO2 underground. The government is spending $2 billion on helping industry develop CCS but has yet to spell out the rules of how the gas can be stored in underground reservoirs.
    “We are fully aware we need to take a look at regulation,” said Bob McManus, spokesman for Alberta Energy.
    Read more at Edmonton Sun 
  • US DOE publishes manual for CCS Public Outreach programmes
    21.01.2010
    - The US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships programme (RCSP) has published a new manual entitled “Best Practices for Public Outreach and Education for CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) Projects.” The manual is based on the experience gained throughout the first six years of the RCSP programme and aims to provide guidance to CCS stakeholders whilst designing and conducting effective public outreach and education activities.
    The full report  
  • Coal-intensive Poland announces CCS project
    15.01.2010
    - Poland – Polish utility company PGE has decided that it will build a lignite-fired unit using CO2 capture and storage (CCS) at the Belchatow power plant. PGE will receive €180 million funding from the EU Economic Recovery Package (EERP).
    Read more
  • Total inaugurates Lacq CCS project
    11.01.2010
    - Total has inaugurated Europe’s first full chain CO2 capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project at Lacq, in France. The €60 million facility uses oxyfuel combustion technology to capture CO2, that is then transported 27 km to Rousse where it is injected into a depleted natural gas reservoir 4,500m below ground.
    Read the Total press release  
  • No progress on CCS under UN’s CDM at COP15
    11.01.2010
    – No progress was achieved on including CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) during the UN climate talks in Copenhagen – the so-called COP15 – despite lobbying efforts by countries such as the UK or Saudi Arabia. All eyes are now set on COP16 in Mexico in December 2010.
    Read more
  • CCS part of €35bn French “grand loan”
    07.01.2010
    – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled the initial details of a “grand loan” of €35 billion, of which €2.5 billion has been earmarked for renewables and CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
    Read more atThe Guardian or La Tribune
  • Large potential for storing CO2 in bassalts at the U.S. east coast
    04.01.2010
    Deep saline aquifers or depleted oil fields are the main options for CO2 storage, but what might be even better is a volcanic rock known as basalt. That's because the rock both stores CO2 and, over a relatively short period of years, forms carbonate minerals (limestone) with it.
    Read more at the Scientific American   

USA: Full scale CCS at the Mountaineer coal power plant in 2015
20 Aug 2009
American Electric Power will apply for funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Coal Power Initiative to pay part of the costs of installing the nation’s first commercial-scale CO2 system on its Mountaineer coal-fired power plant. The captured CO2, approximately 1.5 million tons per year, will be permanent stored approximately 1.5 miles below the surface. The system will begin commercial operation in 2015.
Read more at the American Electric Power web site   
Read more in the New York Times

China urged to cut CO2 with CCS technology
10 Aug 2009
The huge costs required to capture CO2 emitted by China's vast coal-fired power sector is a price worth paying to cut greenhouse gases to reasonable levels, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said.
Read more at China Daily

China Balks at Global Warming-Gas Capture Costs
6 August 2009
“Carbon capture and storage, particularly for China, is not one of the priorities -- the cost is an issue,” said Su Wei, director-general of the climate-change unit at China’s National Development and Reform Commission
Read more at Bloomberg

Strong opposition to CO2 storage in Denmark
5 August 2009
A group of landowners in northern Jutland have collectively dug in their heels to stamp out a power company’s plans to establish a giant underground carbon dioxide storage chamber in Jammerbugten.
Read more at The Copenhagen Post 

EU warned over carbon capture fund misuse
10 July 2009
European Union funding to support CCS could be wasted as member states fight for the biggest cut said British MEP Chris Davies. Plans to build up to 12 demonstration plants in Europe by 2015 are at risk of being undermined by "self-centred competition" between member states, warned Davies.
Read more at EurActive

A First-Hand View of China’s Carbon Capture and Storage Actions
28 July 2009
A first-hand tour of CCS sites in China suggests possibilities for cooperation with the United States—to their mutual benefit.
Read more at the World Resources Institute’s website

CO2 capture project launched in Australia
24 July 2009
One of the world’s leading CCS research collaborations, the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC), has launched Australia`s most comprehensive post-combustion CO2 capture research facility in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
Read more at Carbon Capture Journal

The US Climate Bill - everything you need to know
26 June 2009
The US climate bill is massive, and all you need to know about it is briefly listed in this article. The key components are: (1) A National Renewable Energy Standard; (2) Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions; (3) Clean Energy Investments
Read more at Treehugger

Germany agrees scaled-down CO2 capture law
22 June 20009
Germans coalition government has reached an agreement on a CCS law. But sources said the agreement only allows for individual test sites rather than allowing a more comprehensive framework for CCS across Germany.
Read more at EurActive

China's attitude toward CCS is changing
22 June 2009
China's first near-zero-emissions coal plant won state approval this month and two other pilots are in the works, including one in inner Mongolia that could be the largest sequestration project in the world. China is certainly moving forward on CCS.
Read more at the New York Times

The UK government has released regulatory and financial framework to support four CCS plants
17 June 2009
The government has today released its long anticipated consultation on the regulatory and financial framework to support a new generation of four carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants, promising that the early adoption of the technology will deliver a major boost to the economy.
Read more at BusinessGreen

U.K. CCS market could generate billions a year
23 June 2009
The financial benefits of implementing CCS to old and new coal-based U.K. power plants could be worth as much as £4 billion a year by 2030
Read more at Marketwire

Alstom to build CCS demo at Norway refinery
22 June 2009
Norwegian energy company StatoilHydro has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Alstom for the construction of a demonstration 40 MW post combustion CO2 capture facility at the European CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM). The contract is worth €65m.
Read more at TCM today

FutureGen is back on the Agenda
19 June 2009
FutureGen was years ago launched as the big CCS project in the USA and after more than a year of silence the project has finally received funding.
Read more at Recharge

Knowledge sharing from CCS demo ensured
29 May 2009
ScottishPower and The Climate Group have agreed on wide knowledge sharing related to the CCS plant to be built at Longannet Power Station. The objective is to accelerate the CCS development and ensure the technology is deployed in developing countries.
Read more at Recharge News

The U.S. Department of Energy Creates National Carbon Capture Center
28 May 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has launched a new National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) to accelerate the development and testing of new technologies for CO2 capture
Read more at Environmental Reader

Germany proposes carbon storage tax
19 May 2009
German energy companies could be facing a crippling tax on carbon storage if a proposal by the country's federal states becomes a reality.
Read more at Daily Commercial News  

The EU calls for proposals for €4 billion worth of energy investments
18 May 2009
The European Commission has launched a call for proposals covering key energy infrastructure projects, including CCS, as part of the implementation of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR). In total nearly €4 billion worth of financial aid will be available to support new energy-related investments.
Read more at EUmonitor.net  

 USA will hand out $2.4 billion for CCS
15 May 2009
The US Energy Secretary, Steven Chu,  announced today at a meeting of the National Coal Council in Washington, that the feds are planning to dispense $2.4 billion to research and develop so-called clean coal technology like including CCS
Read more at the Scientific American

CO2 can be captured by growing algae
4. may 2009
A technology venture is planning capturing CO2 by growing algae. A pilot project will be installed in Iowa this year.
Read more at Earth2tech   

Britain’s CO2 emissions could be stored for centuries in the North Sea
1. May 2009
Millions of tons of CO2 emissions from Britain's power stations could be stored for centuries in rocks under the North Sea, a groundbreaking study has found.

Read more in the Telegraph  

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