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27 July 2010
UK: Coalition Releases First Annual Energy Statement
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has
released the first Annual Energy Statement, which provides 32 action points
for energy and climate change policy of the coalition government, as well
as announcing 6 pathways to 2050 that could result in an 80% decrease in carbon
emissions, and a ‘2050’ calculator which allows the public to
explore the trade-offs required to create a secure, low carbon energy system
in the future. The 2050 pathways concentrate on a combination of renewables,
nuclear and carbon capture and storage.
The Annual Energy Statement reaffirms the Coalition’s commitment to continuing public sector investment in four CCS demonstration Projects and establishing an Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) to limit CO2 emissions for future coal-fired stations.
Finally, a CCS Development Forum will be launched to hold DECC to account on delivering it CCS commitments, in order to promptly deliver CCS in the UK and address potential barriers. A CCS Roadmap is intended to be published with proposed time-scales as well as key policy and commercial issues that have to be addressed and when. View the statement.
27 July 2010
Fluor Corporation’s Carbon Capture Technology To Be Used By Tenaska
Tenaska is to use Fluor’s Econamine FG Plus SM
Carbon Capture technology for the proposed Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Centre
near Sweeatwater, Texas. It will be a 600 MW pulverized coal plant that will
capture 85-90% of CO2 by-product, which will be sent to the Permian Basin
and used in Enhanced Oil Recovery. View the article.
26 July 2010
U.S. Department of energy announces funding for two demonstration projects
The U.S. Department of Energy has funded two demonstration
projects to advance CO2 capture technologies. Tampa Electric is in partnership
with CCSA member Siemens to pilot a project at Tampa Electric’s Big
Bend Power Station in Ruskin, Florida (see story from 19 July).
Furthermore, Tampa Electric is in partnership with RTI International and Shaw Group to study new technology to clean synthetic gas at elevated temperatures, in order to evaluate the construction of a pilot project at the 250MW IGCC plant at Tampa Electric Polk Power Station.
It is expected to reduce capital and operating costs of an IGCC plant that is fitted with carbon capture technology. View the article.
22 July 2010
New Inquiry Launched on Emissions Performance Standards
A new Inquiry has been launched by the UK Parliament
into Emissions Performs Standards (EPSs) for power stations. The Commons Energy
and Climate Change Committee wants to understand what impact an EPS would
have on both the development of CCS as well as on domestic energy prices.
The committee is looking into what the level for an EPS should be in the UK
both for coal and gas-fired plant. View the news
story.
20 July 2010
Chris Huhne Launches Global Carbon Capture and Storage Initiative
An international work programme to facilitate CCS enhancement
and deployment has today been announced by Chris Huhne, Secretary of State
for DECC, as part of the first meeting of the Clean Energy Ministerial convened
in Washington by US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Mr Huhne stated “that
the new 'Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Action Group (CCUS) would bring together
governments, businesses and other key stakeholders in a regular forum to debate,
inform and help execute plans to accelerate CCS deployment between now and
2020.” Mr Huhne also emphasised the importance of CCS technology for
tackling climate change, however he stressed the need for governments to introduce
frameworks for regulation and incentives to enable deployment. View press
release.
21 July 2010
Britain and Australia Agree to Collaborate on Carbon Capture and Storage
Two days of talks took place in Washington between 21
nations on climate change and energy issues, as an offshoot of the US Major
Economies Forum. The nations agreed 11 initiatives of joint work, including
an agreement between Britain and Australia to work together on accelerating
work on carbon capture and storage. View the news
story .
19 July 2010
US Department of Energy Awards Grant to Siemens Energy for CO2 Capture
A carbon capture pilot plant for treating a slipstream
at Tampa Electric's coal-fired power plant in Florida is being designed, installed
and operated by CCSA member Siemens Energy, through a $8.9m grant from the
US DoE. The post-combustion demonstration will treat a 1MW slipstream of the
flue gas from the 1,892 MW power station, where the pilot will capture 90
percent of the CO2 emissions, and hopefully reduce the amount of energy traditionally
required for carbon capture. This pilot plant is scheduled to be in operation
in 2013. View the news
story .
19 July 2010
Committee on Climate Change Calls for UK to Protect Funding for Development
of Low-Carbon Technologies
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has today published
the report Building a low-carbon economy – the UK’s innovation
challenge, calling for the UK to ensure funding is maintained for the development
and deployment of vital low-carbon technologies that will significantly help
the UK reach its 2050 target of 80% reduction in emissions. The report recommends
that funding should focus on six key technologies, one of which is CCS. In
2009/10, the UK spent £550m on low-carbon RD&D – as a percentage
of GDP, this is currently less than several other countries, including Denmark,
Norway, Japan, Korea, U.S. and France. View the report.
16 July 2010
Low Carbon Energy Agreement with Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Mitsubishi
Power Systems Europe Ltd) and SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy plc) have
entered into a strategic agreement to co-operate on low carbon energy developments.The
agreement will enable the partners to explore a range of technologies including
offshore wind farms, advanced technology for smart electricity grids and low
carbon vehicles, carbon capture and storage and high-efficiency power generation.
View the news
story .
8 July 2010
Market Sounding for CCS Demonstration Programme Projects 2-4
The DECC will begin a 2 month market sounding process
for the UK’s CCS Demonstration Programme, spanning from 8 July to 15 September.
Although not a formal consultation, it will help the Department to explore
options for the CCS demonstration project selection and funding processes,
as well as learn about projects being considered by industry. View the announcement.
8 July 2010
Scottish and Southern Energy announce gas Carbon Capture and Storage project
Scottish and Southern Energy has decided to prepare a Carbon Capture and Storage
project at its gas-fired power station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The project
would demonstrate post-combustion capture of carbon dioxide emissions relating
to the electricity output of the equivalent of 400MW of capacity. It would
involve using an existing gas turbine, an existing steam turbine, an existing
electricity network connection and land adjacent to the power station already
owned by SSE. View the press
release.
6 July 2010
New Method to Gauge America’s CO2 Storage Potential
A new methodology to assess America’s potential to store carbon dioxide
(CO2) is available. The U.S. Geological Survey will commence a national assessment
of CO2 storage potential now that its assessment methodology is complete.
This research can be used to plan for the long-term storage of CO2 to help
lessen the impacts of climate change. View the press
release.
2 July 2010
China starts building first carbon capture project
China has started construction of its first carbon dioxide capture and storage
project in Ordos in Inner Mongolia to reduce carbon emissions. The project
will cost 210 million yuan ($30.9 million) and will be able to hold 100,000
metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, China National Petroleum Corp, the country's
biggest oil producer and the plant's designer, said in a statement on its
website today. The facility will start operations by the end of the year,
it said. View the full news
story.
1 July 2010
CO2CRC begins next five years of CCS research
Australia’s world-leading research into carbon capture and storage (CCS)
is set to continue with a new five year program of CO2CRC research now underway.
“CO2CRC’s 2010-2015 program tackles the full chain of CCS - capture,
transport and geological storage of carbon dioxide – while focusing
on the major technical obstacles to large scale deployment,” said Dr
Peter Cook, Chief Executive of CO2CRC. “The next five years will be
crucial for the global development of CCS, as commercial projects begin to
come on-stream, both here, through the Federal Government’s CCS Flagship
initiative, and overseas.” View the press
release.
30 June 2010
CCC second annual report
The independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) published its second annual
report, issuing a warning that the UK must deliver a "step change"
in the pace at which underlying greenhouse emissions are reduced if it is
to meet legally binding targets. The report features a number of policy recommendations,
which the committee argues the government must adopt if it is to stay within
its carbon budgets. According to the report the government should aim to demonstrate
CCS on coal and gas-fired plants and move quickly to select the first demonstration
plants. It also recommends an emissions performance standard that would effectively
ban new coal-fired plants without CCS technology post-2020. It adds that the
government should consider a similar standard for gas-fired plants. View the
press release and summary
article.
30 June 2010
Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation announces funding for
five new clean technology projects
The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) has announced
more than $28.1 million in funding for five new clean technology projects
in Alberta. Three Carbon Capture and Storage projects will receive more than
$4.8 million in funding. For every dollar the CCEMC invests in these carbon
capture and storage projects, on average, another $2 dollars are also invested.
View the press
release.
29 June 2010
Poland’s new GeoCO2 consortium launches CCS research
An agreement to establish GeoCO2 Science and Industry Consortium has been
signed. The aim of the Consortium is to study the possible storage of CO2
in sandstone saline water-bearing formations. A monitoring programme of such
storage is also to be examined. The project results will enable CO2 emitters
in the Polish energy sector to implement their individual CCS-ready programmes.
View the full
article.
28 June 2010
University of Texas Receives $19 Million to Monitor Carbon Storage Project
The University of Texas at Austin will receive up to $19 million from the
U.S. Department of Energy and NRG Energy to design and oversee a monitoring
plan for a carbon capture and storage demonstration project in southeast Texas.
This project will be among the first in the state of Texas, and one of only
a handful in the world, to use anthropogenic CO2 as opposed to naturally occurring
CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The project is designed to show that
post-combustion CCS applied to existing plants can be done economically, especially
when the plant has the opportunity to sequester carbon dioxide in nearby oilfields.
View the press
release.
22 June 2010
Guidance on CCS emissions issued
Guidelines for monitoring and reporting emissions from the capture, transport
and geological storage of CO2 were published in the Official Journal of the
European Union on Tuesday. The guidelines on emissions from carbon capture
and storage (CCS) and transport were adopted by the European Commission earlier
this month. They are intended for installations covered by the EU's emissions
trading scheme using CCS technology. View the publication.
22 June 2010
UK government budget 2010
Relevant issues highlighted in the budget are reform to the Climate Change
Levy to provide more certainty and support to the carbon price, the creation
of a Green Investment Bank following the Spending Review, and the establishment
of Infrastructure UK (IUK) to lead work within HM Treasury to enable greater
private sector investment in infrastructure and improve the Government’s
long-term planning and delivery. View the budget
website.
18 June 2010
Committee on Climate Change advises government to fund gas CCS project
The Committee on Climate Change has advised Chris Huhne to consider extending
the CCS competition to include gas as well as coal demonstration projects.
In a letter to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Lord
Adair Turner suggests that serious consideration should be given to funding
at least one gas CCS demonstration project as part of the four coal CCS demonstration
projects committed to in the Coalition Agreement. This is based on new evidence
on the potential competitiveness of gas CCS with other forms of low carbon
generation, and the very limited international effort to develop this technology.
Also recommended is an Emissions Performance Standard that would effectively
require any new gas plant beyond 2020 to be fitted with CCS, although plant
added to the system before 2020 would remain exempt. View the press
release.
16 June 2010
IPAC-CO2 and CSA Standards to develop CCS guidelines
CSA Standards and the International Performance Assessment Centre for Geologic
Storage of Carbon Dioxide (IPAC-CO2) have announced a joint agreement to develop
Canada’s CCS standard for the geological storage of industrial emissions.
It is intended that the new standard will be used to promote adoption of international
standards and will provide essential guidelines for regulators, industry and
others around the world involved in CCS projects. View the press
release.
14 June 2010
CCS report presented to G8
A new report by the International Energy Agency, the Carbon Sequestration
Leadership Forum, and the Global CCS Institute will be presented to G8 leaders
at their June Summit in Muskoka, Canada. The report’s main finding is
that, although significant progress has been made, the 2008 Hokkaido G8 recommendation
to launch 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects by 2010 remains a challenge
and will require governments and industry to accelerate the pace towards achieving
this goal. View the press
release.
11 June 2010
CO2Sense launches new network
CO2Sense Yorkshire has launched a free online network to enable businesses
in Yorkshire and Humber to keep up to date with progress on CCS, find out
what’s new and exchange ideas with other companies. CO2Sense Yorkshire
is encouraging as many people as possible to become members. For more information
please see www.co2sense.org.uk/networks.
8 June 2010
One North Sea study published
The North Sea Basin Task Force has published a new study into North Sea cross-border
CO2 transport and storage. The study, entitled One North Sea, highlights the
potential for North Sea countries to become natural leaders in the development
of CCS in Europe and finds that rapid deployment of large scale low cost CO2
infrastructure by 2030 is technically feasible and necessary for full deployment
of CCS. The report makes a number of recommendations on how this vision can
be achieved. View the report.
3 June 2010
EU launches industrial initiative on CCS
The EU has launched a European Industrial Initiative (EII) on CCS, as part
of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan. The CCS EII will be a model
for collaboration between industry, EU Member States, the European Commission,
the European Energy Research Alliance and other research institutes and NGOs.
It has two key objectives: to ensure the cost competitive deployment of CCS
after 2020 and its further development to allow its application to all carbon
intensive industrial sectors. View the full
story.
28 May 2010
PM recognises importance of CCS in first major
speech
David Cameron has delivered his first major speech as Prime Minister today.
Speaking in Yorkshire, the Prime Minister gave CCS as an example of major
infrastructure projects that will begin in the next five years and that they
have made long-term commitments to. He also said: “Let’s make
Humberside lead the world in carbon capture and storage.” View the speech.
25 May 2010
France selects CCS projects
The French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) will support the
France Nord project, to transport and store CO2, and the Le Harve capture
demonstration project. The France Nord project will examine the feasibility
of installing a CO2 transportation and storage demonstration infrastructure
to be potentially used by several CO2-emitting industries. The project will
run for 2 years and will include detailed technical studies to set a suitable
geological site for storing CO2 in deep saline aquifers. The €54-million
France Nord project will be 40%-financed by ADEME from the research demonstrator
fund and 60% by the other consortium partners. The same fund will support
25% of the €22 million Le Harve project, which will demonstration post-combustion
capture technology at EDF’s power plant in Normandy. The project will
run from 2010 to 2013. View the press
release and a further press
release.
12 May 2010
American Power Act unveiled
Senators John Kerry and Joe Liberman have introduced a new bill that aims
to reform the American energy economy. The American Power Act includes a national
strategy for CCS, emissions performance standards for new coal-fired power
stations, proposals for annual incentives of $2 billion for CCS R&D and
further incentives for the commercial deployment of 72 GW of CCS. View the
press release.
12 May 2010
Dutch government announces funding for Rotterdam
project
The Dutch government will provide subsidies of up to €150 million in
the next ten years for the Rotterdam CCS project. This funding will be in
addition to €180 million that was awarded to the project under the European
economic recovery plan. View the full
story.
12 May 2010
New coalition government sets out key energy
policies
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition has set out key areas of agreement
on energy and climate change policy. These include agreement to:
- continue with the proposals for public sector investment in CCS technology
at four coal-fired power stations
- establish an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal-fired
power stations from being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS
to meet the standard
- introduce a floor price for carbon, as well as working to persuade the EU
to move towards full auctioning of ETS permits
- create a green investment
bank.
6 April 2010
CO2QUALSTORE guidelines published
DNV and industry partners have developed and published the CO2QUALSTORE Guideline
for Selection, Characterisation and Qualification of Sites and Projects for
Geological Storage of CO2. The guidelines provide a comprehensive and systematic
process for storing CO2 over the lifetime of a project, from screening and
site selection to closure and handover to the state. Jørg Aarnes, project
manager at DNV said: “The lack of tailored regulatory frameworks for
CO2 geological storage has threatened to delay large scale adoption of CCS.
In addition to providing increased predictability for operators, the guideline
will help governments to implement internationally harmonised regulatory frameworks
for geological storage of CO2. We therefore believe the CO2QUALSTORE guideline
is a real breakthrough moment for CCS and should provide a step-change in
the pace of CCS deployment.” View the press
release.
31 March 2010
Four Kingdoms agreement reached to promote
CCS
Norway, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the UK have agreed a plan to promote
CCS through the Four Kingdoms Initiative. Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum
and Energy said that the aim of the cooperation is to achieve wider international
recognition of CCS technologies and to work to make CCS commercially attractive.
The agreement was made at the World Energy Forum in Mexico. View the full
story.
25 March 2010
Funding announced for NSW CCS project
The Government of New South Wales has announced $28.3 million of funding to
develop a CCS project in the region. The Delta Project, which is being jointly
funded by Federal and State governments and the Australian Coal Association,
will demonstrate integrated post combustion capture, transport and geological
storage of CO2. The project will store up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 annually
and will build on the existing pilot plant at Delta’s Munmorah Power
Station. View the press
release.
24 March 2010
Study confirms benefits of CO2 pipeline in
Yorkshire
A new study, commissioned by CO2Sense Yorkshire and an industry group, has
confirmed that a CO2 pipeline network linking industrial emitters across Yorkshire
and Humber would enable faster and more cost effective deployment of CCS in
the region. The report concludes that constructing a pipeline network system
out to an offshore storage location, with the capacity to initially carry
40 million tonnes of CO2 per year, would lead to savings of £250m, costing
approximately £650m to build in comparison with early CCS projects building
individual ‘point to point’ pipelines which would cost £900m.
The analysis undertaken also shows that investing in additional pipeline capacity
in the initial phase of CCS development in the region would be cost effective
even if subsequent projects do not join the network for up to 11 years. View
the full
story.
22 March 2010
Senators unveil bill to support CCS
Senators Jay Rockefeller and George Voinovich have unveiled a discussion draft
of a bill designed to promote research and create incentives to develop and
deploy full-scale CCS. The draft includes proposals for:
· A CCS Innovation Program to authorise $850 million over 15 years
for cooperative industry-government R&D
· A CCS Pioneer Program to create incentives to rapidly deploy 20GW
of CCS
· A CCS Early Adopter Program to provide incentives in the form of
tax credits based on capture CO2 following the Pioneer Phase
· Technology standards to be implemented after the completion of the
first 10GW or in 2030
· A placeholder for addressing liability issues whilst the two senators
consider a number of options to clarify the long-term liability framework.
View the press release.
22 March 2010
ETI plans to invest £25m in CCS demonstration
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced that it plans to invest
£25 million in a new project to establish an advanced CO2 capture technology
demonstration. The proposed project would see the development of world-leading
next generation capture technology to a stage where it has completed full-scale
demonstration by 2015 and is ready for adoption into full-scale commercial
power applications by 2020. A Request for Proposals, giving details of the
project and what the ETI expects from potential consortia members, is due
to be released on the ETI’s website on 31 March. View the press
release.
17 March 2010
UK launches CCS Industrial Strategy, Office
of CCS and pilot project
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched their CCS
Industrial Strategy, which outlines the government’s approach to delivering
CCS in the UK. This includes the first four demonstration projects, as well
as further consideration on how to deliver CCS beyond the demonstration programme,
developing the supply chain and skills to build a sustained CCS capability
in the UK beyond 2030. According to the Strategy, the CCS industry could be
worth up to £6.5bn and sustain up to 100,000 jobs by 2030. The proposals
in the Strategy will be taken forward by the new Office of CCS (OCCS). Alongside
the strategy, DECC also published two documents on the potential for CCS business
clusters and the future industry potential for CO2 storage in the UK. The
Government also announced £6.3 million of funding for a 5MW pilot project
at Ferrybridge in Yorkshire. The project is a collaboration between Scottish
and Southern Energy, Doosan Babcock and Vattenfall. The Yorkshire and Humber
region was announced to be the UK’s first Low Carbon Economic Area for
CCS. View the press
release.
12 March 2010
UK awards FEED study funding
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.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband said: “These two promising
projects are at the forefront of the UK’s efforts to build one of the
first commercial-scale clean coal plants in the world. The award of design-stage
funding demonstrates our commitment to this breakthrough technology. It has
the potential to support tens of thousands of jobs and bring billions into
the economy.” View the press
release.
9 March 2010
DOE awards $154m to Texas CCS demonstration
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected NRG Energy’s CCS demonstration
project in Texas to receive $154 million under the third round of the Clean
Coal Power Initiative. The 60 MW post-combustion capture project will demonstrate
the integration of several technologies including Fluor’s advanced Econamine
FG PlusSM capture process, Ramgen’s CO2 compression system, the integration
of highly efficient co-generation to provide the necessary steam and electricity,
and enhanced oil recovery in one of the Texas Gulf Coast oilfields near the
plant. View the press
release.
1 March 2010
E.ON submits scoping reports for CO2 pipeline
E.ON has submitted environmental scoping reports outlining the company’s
plans for a CO2 pipeline from its proposed Kingsnorth power station. The pipeline
would have sufficient capacity in the long term to allow a ‘Thames Cluster'
of CCS projects to be developed, transporting 24 million tonnes of CO2 each
year to storage sites under the North Sea. This equates to the emissions from
around two supercritical Kingsnorth-sized coal-fired power stations and three
Grain-sized gas-fired CHP power stations. Final plans are expected to be submitted
to Medway Council towards the end of this year, as part of a full pipeline
planning application. View the press
release.
1 March 2010
CER calls for EU action on CCS
The Centre for European Reform has launched a new report entitled Carbon Capture
and Storage: What the EU needs to do. The report argues that more public money
is needed for the construction of demonstration projects, and that regulation
and strong market signals will be required to ensure wide scale deployment
of CCS. The report calls for demonstration at both gas and coal-fired plants,
greater certainty about the scale and timing of public funds for CCS, intervention
to bolster the carbon price, regulation to make CCS mandatory once proven
and the creation of clusters of CCS projects. View the press
release.
19 February 2010
UN launches CCS roadmap project
The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Norwegian Ministry
of Petroleum and Energy and the GCCSI have announced a new joint project to
develop a technology roadmap for CCS. 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
realise that potential. View the press
release.
3 February 2010
US announces CCS task force
President Obama has announced the creation of an Interagency Task Force on
Carbon Capture and Storage, which will develop a comprehensive and coordinated
federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of clean coal technologies.
The President calls for five to ten commercial demonstration projects to be
operational by 2016. To achieve this, the Task Force aims to develop within
180 days a plan to overcome the barriers to the deployment of widespread affordable
CCS within 10 years. View the press
release.
2 February 2010
One North East publishes CCS prospectus
One North East has published an ambitious prospectus for the development of
CCS in the North East of England. The document identifies the region’s
strengths and future plans for CCS, including the potential for a cluster
of projects to be established by 2015, and highlights the potential for major
investment and job creation in the region. View the full
story.
2 February 2010
EU agrees NER split
An agreement has been reached on how to disperse the 300 million allowances
set aside from the New Entrants Reserve of the EU ETS to fund CCS and innovative
renewable projects. The vote that took place on Tuesday was seen by many as
the last chance to secure a deal on the issue. View the full
story.
20 January 2010
Five CCS projects share $29m in Victoria
Five CCS projects in Victoria, Australia, are to share up to $29 million in
funding as part of the Victorian Government’s $110 million Energy Technology
Innovation Strategy (ETIS) fund. The funding includes:
- $19 million towards the development of a multi-user CO2 transport and storage
system. The system is being developed by a consortium of Carbon Store Australia,
TRUenergy and Mitsubishi Corporation;
- Up to $3.5 million to investigate the feasibility of building a small-scale
plant at an existing brown coal power station that would capture and mineralise
CO2 into materials to be used in the building industry. The project is being
developed by Calera;
- Up to $2 million to investigate the feasibility of a large-scale, gasification,
pre-combustion CO2 capture project being developed by TRUenergy and Southern
Company;
- Up to $3.5 million to investigate the feasibility of a pre-combustion capture
project being developed by HRL; and
- Up to $1 million to investigate the feasibility of a retro-fitted large-scale,
post-combustion carbon capture plant at Loy Yang A Power Station being developed
by Loy Yang Power, Mitsubishi and TRUenergy.
View the press
release.
13 January 2010
US DOE publishes CCS communications manual
The US Department of Energy’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
programme has published a new manual entitled Best Practices for Public Outreach
and Education for Carbon Storage Projects. The recommendations are based on
lesson learned during the first six years of the partnerships programme and
are intended to provide guidance on designing and conducting effective public
outreach activities. View the press
release.
11 January 2010
Total inaugurates Lacq project
Total has inaugurated Europe’s first full chain CCS demonstration project
at Lacq, in France. The €60 million facility uses oxyfuel combustion
technology to capture CO2, that is then transported 27 km from the Lacq plant
to Rousse where it is injected into a depleted natural gas reservoir 4,500m
below ground. Around 120,000 tonnes of CO2 will be captured and stored over
the next two years. View the press
release.
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