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CCS IN EUROPE
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with the common goal of establishing injection into the storage offshore site tons of CO2 per year. The advantage
the UK’s first CCS equipped industrial from as early as 2021/2022. application of CCS to hydrogen
zone in the Tees Valley, North East of generated from coal and methane
England. This consortium of industries R&D activities are also making a (natural gas) creates no CO2 emissions.
plans to develop a facility with an initial significant contribution to CCS
CO2 capture capacity of approximately technologies understanding in CONCLUSIONS
0.8 Mtpa with a long-term target of 10 industrial application and in cost After a period of stasis, the CCS
Mtpa. reduction studies – e.g. the LEILAC sector has emerged again and
and CEMCAP projects work on CO2 can potentially provide the much-
SMALL-SCALE FACILITIES removal improvements at cement needed decarbonisation Europe
CCS development benefits from plants. has committed to achieve in the
several CCS small-scale facilities across next decades, especially when
Europe. Finally, while the formal cancellation applied to industrial clusters. For
of the ROAD project in Rotterdam CCS technologies to make their
In addition to the two large-scale CCS has been a significant set-back for the contribution to the climate change
facilities the UK will most likely host city’s climate ambitions, the Port of fight, European countries should
the Acorn project, which foresees the Rotterdam is developing a “backbone” build “CO2 transport and storage
development of a minimum viable full infrastructure that would allow CO2 infrastructure, critical to unlocking
chain industrial CCS plant. Located to be transported from the port area large-scale CCS deployment”. To
in North East Scotland the projects to the storage site off the coast of the do so, much more policy support is
seek to initiate CCS in the UK by North Sea. needed to back CCS, especially by the
repurposing or rebuilding an existing EU Member States. While the second
CO2 capture plant at the St Fergus gas CCS & HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY round of Nationally Determined
processing facility. Hydrogen as a potential emission Contributions (NDCs) expected in
free fuel for industry, transport and 2025 will be a critical decision point
In May 2017 the Acorn project was heating, is gaining momentum in the for governments to review their
awarded Horizon2020 funding under UK particularly. In the Netherlands, commitments, action to foster CCS
the Accelerating CCS Technologies Statoil, Vattenfall and Gasunie are development must be taken now
(ACT) Programme in addition to studying the possibility of converting otherwise the deployment might
Scottish Government support. As most Vattenfall’s gas power plant Magnum at such a late stage would make it
of the infrastructure already exists, the into a hydrogen-powered plant, which extremely expensive to reach the Paris
project developers plan to start CO2 would potentially reduce four million climate goals. l
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