Likely winners of EU CCS project funding now known

29 October 2009


News agency Reuters has reported that the European Union's executive Commission has recommended to the European Parliament a list of winners in the competition for EU funding for projects demonstrating carbon capture and storage technology. The list has not been officially confirmed, but the information does comes from Commission documentation. The EU has pledged a total of Euros1.05 billion in support for CCS projects from its economic recovery stimulus package with the aim of having up to 12 CCS demonstration projects in operation by 2015 and to have the technology fully commercialised by 2020.

The first commercial-scale coal plants to be equipped with the technology, viewed as an important strategy for combating climate change in a world where coal firing will be the largest power generator for some time to come, will be built in Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, Poland, Spain and Italy.

The Commission has recommendedthat five of the six schemes are awarded an initial subsidy of Euros 180 million with a similar sum coming from national governments, and that the Italian project should receive Euros100 million.

The recommended winners include Vattenfall's Oxyfuel project in Jaenschwalde, Germany, the Rotterdam Hub scheme in the Netherlands, a Polish project in Belchatow, Powerfuel's Hatfield project in the UK, Endesa's OxyFuel project in Compostilla, Spain, and Enel's scheme in Porte Tolle, Italy. The European Parliament has four weeks to raise objections and the final list of winners will be published in mid-November at the earliest.

The world needs to build 100 major CCS projects by 2020 and thousands more by 2050 to help combat climate change, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. Energy ministers meeting in London at the Carbon Sequestratin leadership Forum recently asserted the world must start building by next year at least 20 commercial-scale pilot projects to test a technology which US energy secretary Steven Chu said could solve "20 percent of the problem" to curb carbon.




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