20 August 2008
EPSRC Issues Calls on CCS
The Engineering and Physcial Sciences Research Council together with E.ON
have today issued a call for multidisciplinary consortia looking into research
to develop CCS related to power stations. A maximum of £5m will be available
for this call and closing date for applications is the 6th November 2008.
View the website
for more information.
10 July 2008
Western Australia Plans Centre for CCS
Plans for a new coal testing and education facility in Collie, Western Australia,
are in development. The centre will look at the potential for CCS amongst
other research into technologies that emit less greenhouse gases. View the
full
story.
9 July 2008
G8 Statement on CCS
At the G8 summit held 7-9 July in Hokkaido, Japan, the G8 leaders agreed to
"support the launching of 20 large-scale CCS demonstration project globally
by 2010". An agreement was also reached to "consider and adopt in
the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50% reduction of global
emissions by 2050".
View the full statement
and associated documents.
8 July 2008
Alberta Announces $4bn for Climate Measures
The Government of Alberta today announced a funding amount of $4bn towards
their Climate Plan. This includes $2bn along in funding to develop CCS technology.
View the full
story.
2 July 2008
IPPR Publishes report on the Future of Coal-Fired Power
The Institute for Public Policy Research have today released their report
"After the Coal Rush: Assessing policy options for coal-fired electricity
generation" which recommends that the EU should agree a timetable and
financing for the goal of 12 CCS demonstration plants by 2015, as well as
recommending that the UK should support a second CCS demonstration project
and begin planning the infrastructure to transport carbon dioxide to storage
in the North Sea.
View the full
report and press
release.
2 July 2008
Tony Blair Submits Climate Report to G8 Summit
Former Prime Minster Tony Blair published the first Breaking the Climate
Deadlock initiative report setting out the framework for a new global
climate deal. On CCS, the report states that "It will be very challenging,
if not impossible, to hit significant abatement targets without CCS".
View the full
report.
30 June 2008
UK Government Launches CCS Consultation
The UK Government today launched their CCS regulatory consultation, covering
the regulation of storage sites, capture-readiness and the EU CCS Directive.
In addition, the shortlist of pre-qualified bidders for the CCS demonstration
competition was also announced, with the winner expected to be named mid 2009.
View the CCS
consultation and press
release.
The Association welcomed the consultation with the following press
release and Incentives
position paper.
16 June 2008
Cameron Signals Strong Support for CCS
David Cameron today gave the strongest Conservative support for CCS in a speech
to environmental leaders, announcing that a Conservative Government will implement
a Californian model of an Emissions Performance Standard and utilise revenue
from the auctioning of EU ETS allowances "to fund at lease three CCS
demonstration projects over the next five to ten years".
Read the full
speech.
11 June 2008
EU ETS Directive Draft Report Published
Avril Doyle MEP, the rapporteur for the proposed EU Directive to improve and
extend the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, has today published her report on
the Directive, which will be submitted to other MEPs for consideration and
voting later in the year. In her report, MEP Doyle has proposed various measures
to incentivise CCS projects through the EU ETS mechanism. View the full
report.
6 June 2008
Yorkshire Forward Published Report on CCS Network
CCSA Member Yorkshire Forward together with several other CCSA members have
today released a report concuding the study on how a CCS network for the Yorkshire
and Humber region can be developed. The region is home to a number of the
UK's largest power stations and, once complete, could store up to 60 million
tonnes of carbon emissions from the regions fossil fuel power plants.
View the full
report and press
release.
5 June 2008
EU CCS Directive Draft Report Published
Chris Davies MEP, the rapporteur for the proposed EU Directive on the geological
storage of carbon dioxide, has today published his report on the Directive,
where he calls for all existing fossil fuel power plants to be fitted with
CCS by 2025 as well as proposing that no new power plants should be built
after 2015 that are unable to reduce at least 90% of their carbon dioxide
emissions. It is expected that the report will achieve first reading adoption
in the plenary debate in September. View the full
report.
Chris Davies held a press conference on the 6th May setting out his top priorities
for the report and the Association responded with the following press
release.
18 May 2008
New Website on CCS Regulation in EU and China
The STRACO2 Consortium have today launched their new Project Website, providing
a communication platform for their project on CCS Regulation in EU and China.
View the website http://www.euchina-ccs.org.
6-7 May 2008
DOE Commits Significant Funds for CCS
The US Department of Energy has announced large amounts of funds towards CCS
as part of its Regional Sequestration Partnerships and FutureGen Clean Coal
Projects. Under its Regional Sequestration Partnerships, $126.6 million has
been awarded to the West Coast Regional Sequestration Partnership and the
Midwest Regional Sequestration Partnership for the fifth and sixth of seven
awards for projects that will test the storage of carbon dioxide. Under the
restructured FutureGen project, the DOE has allocated $1.3 billion towards
multiple coal-fired power plants with CCS, with projects expected to be selected
by December. View the DOE
carbon sequestration page, Regional
Sequestration Partnership press release, and FutureGen
article.
5 May 2008
ExxonMobil Plans to Build CCS Demonstration Plant
The oil company ExxonMobil has today announced a commitment of more
than $100 million (£50 million) towards a CCS demonstration project
that will remove carbon dioxide from natural gas. The project, to be based
in Wyoming, will use a technology entitled Controlled Freeze Zone (CFZ), which
freezes and then melts the carbon dioxide, thereby removing other unwanted
components as well. The plant is expected to being operation in 2009. View
the full press
release.
1 May 2008
Scotland Introduces Consent Motion on CCS Regulation
The Scottish Government has today introduced a Legislative Consent
Motion to allow a common regulatory framework for CCS to be introduced across
the UK. A Memorandum of Understanding will be developed between the UK Government
and the Scottish Government to implement the common framework and a consultation
on a licensing regime is expected in the summer. View the full press
release.
23 April 2008
British-Norwegian Workshop on CCS
A workshop on The Business Case for Carbon Capture and Storage
(CCS) was today held at the offices of Deutsche Bank in London. Co-supported
by the Association, this successful event was a joint British-Norwegian effort,
covering a wide range of issues such as financing CCS, comparing
technologies and building the CO2 value chain. The keynote address
was given by Michael Jacobs, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister. View the
webcast
from the Royal Norwegian Embassy.
View the presentations and summaries from the day:
Agenda
Opening
Address (K.H.Norve - Innovation Norway)
Ross
Jobber (Deutsche Bank)
Tony
White (Climate Change Capital)
Colin
Scoins (E.ON)
Oscar
Graff (Aker CleanCarbon)
Leif
Dons (Sargas)
Alastair
Rennie (AMEC)
Olav
Kaarstad (StatoilHydro)
Nils
Rokke (SINTEF)
CCSA
summary
Innovation
Norway summary
Speakers
biographies
22 April 2008
Carbon Dioxide Injection Begins at Snohvit
CCSA member StatoilHydro today began carbon dioxide
injection and storage at the Snohvit field outside Hammerfest, Norway. At
full capacity, the project will store 700,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, and
represents the second large CCS project in Norway for StatoilHydro after the
Sleipner project, which already stores 1million tonnes of CO2 per year. View
the full news
release.
15 April 2008
Alberta Plans Large CCS Project
A partnership between ARC Resources Ltd and the Alberta Research Council
have today announced the start of research into a CCS plant that could store
over 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. $1.8 million has been allocated to
the research, which will cover 3 phases, the first of which is to investigate
the geology of the Redwater reef northeast of Edmonton. View the full article.
11 April 2008
TransAlta and Alstom Agree joint work on CCS Project
An agreement has been signed between TransAlta Corp and Alstom (CCSA
member) to develop a large scale CCS project in Alberta. The first phase of
the project, will focus on advancing and improving the understanding of CCS
technology, and will cost $12 million. Testing is expected to begin in 2012.
View the full article.
3 April 2008
Defra Publishes Draft Marine Bill
Defra have today published the draft Marine Bill for consultation -
which will close on the 26th June 2008. One of the key issues included in
the Bill is the creation of a Marine Management Organisation (MMO) which may
impact on CCS legislation. View the draft
Marine Bill and associated documents.
2 April 2008
CO2CRC Launches CCS Project in Western Victoria
Australia today launched its first CCS project in Western Victoria
as injection of carbon dioxide began at the CO2CRC Otway CCS facility. The
project will inject 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide at a depth of 2km and
is internationally recognised as a Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF)
project. Project partners include various public and private organisations,
with monitoring technology partly provided by the US Department of Energy.
View the full CO2CRC
press release and ABC
News article.
1 April 2008
EU Framework Programme 6 European Research Area Network Publishes 1st Call
for R&D
The FENCO-ERA NET Network, focussed on clean fossil energy, has today
launched its first call for Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects
on two themes relating to CCS. View the website
for more information.
31 March 2008
E.ON Announces Entry into the UK's CCS Competition
CCSA member E.ON has today announced that it will be an entrant into the UK
Government's CCS competition. This entry will be based on the proposed Kingsnorth
coal-fired power station in Kent, which is planned as two new, more efficient
CCS-ready 800MW units. View the full press
release.
20 March 2008
RWE Npower Announces CCS Project Partners
RWE npower (a CCSA member) has today announced a partnership with five companies
to build its proposed 1MW CCS demonstration project in Wales by 2010, scaling
up to a demonstration project of at 100MW as part of a cleaner coal power
station at Tilbury. The project partners include BOC, Cansolv Technologies
Inc, IM Skaugen, The Shaw Group and Tullow Oil plc, and form part of the proposal
for RWE npower's entry into the UK Government's competition to build the first
CCS demonstration plant in the UK. View the full press
release.
30 January 2008
New Report on Business Opportunities in Climate Change
The EEF and Deloitte have today released a report on how climate change is
creating billions of pounds in opportunities for manufacturing. The report
"Delivering the low-carbon economy: business opportunities for UK manufacturers"
estimates that the CCS business could be worth $40bn (£20bn) by 2030.
View the full report and press
release.
23 January 2008
EU Commission Releases Energy & Climate Package
The EU Commission have today set out a package of legislative proposals, which
will set the path towards an EU- wide cut in carbon dioxide emissions of 20%
by 2020. The package covers proposals on a range or measures, including several
Directives on; the extension of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the promotion
of renewable energy and CO2 storage, as well as a communication on supporting
early demonstration of sustainable fossil fuel power generation.
View the full Energy
& Climate Package and associated documents.
10 January 2008
UK Government Publishes Energy Bill
Following the Energy Review 2006 and the publication of the Energy White Paper
in 2007, the UK Government have today published their ambitious Energy Bill
which, amongst other things, proposes primary legislation to create a regulatory
framework for CCS.
View the Energy
Bill and associated documents.
The Association welcomed the White
Paper with the following press
release (pdf)
January 2008
IEA Booklet on Safety of CO2 Storage
The International Energy Agency have published a booklet "Geological
Storage of Carbon Dioxide - Staying Safely Underground".
View the
booklet (pdf)
2007
December 2007
CCSA Publishes Second Issue of "CCSA News"
The Association this month launches the second issue of "CCSA News",
reflecting a busy time for CCS since the first issue was launched in May,
including new project developments and progress on policy.
Download here
(pdf)
12 December 2007
North Sea CO2 Transport and Storage Infrastructure Study Published
The North Sea Basin Task Force, comprising of individuals representing the
Governments, public and private sectors of the UK and Norway, have today released
the report on the work of the North Sea CO2 transport and storage infrastructure
study. The study, which was commissioned in June 2006, was produced in association
with Element Energy, Poyry Energy and the British Geological Survey.
View the full report.
29 November 2007
G8 Workshop backs Carbon Capture and Storage
A third G8/IEA/CSLF workshop on carbon capture and storage was held in Calgary
on the 29th November. The workshop - attended by governments, industry, environmental
NGOs and scientific representatives from over 15 countries - agreed a series
of recommendations to enable early global deployment of CCS. These recommendations
will be presented to the July 2008 meeting of G8 leaders in Japan.
The Association issued a joint press release with the Australian Coal Association
and the World Coal Institute welcoming the recommendations. Read
here (pdf)
26 November 2007
CBI Publishes New Climate Change Report
Concluding 10 months of work, the CBI Climate Change Task Force have today
released the report "Climate Change: Everyone's Business", setting
out priority areas for action to enable the UK to meeting carbon reduction
targets. Measures include removing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel
power plants, through a greater use of CCS. View the full
report.
22 November 2007
Major Science Report on Vital New Technologies
The Council for Science and Technology (CST) have today published the report
"Strategic decision making for technology policy" highlighting six
key new technologies that are central to the UK's future prosperity, the first
of which is CCS.
VIew the full
report.
19 November 2007
Prime Minister Launces UK CCS Competition
The Prime Minster, in his speech on climate change to WWF, today launched
the UK Competition to build the first commercial CCS project "demonstrating
the full chain of CO2 capture, transport and storage". It is estimated
that a preferred bidder will be appointed in 2009.
More information and related documents here.
6 November 2007
Queens Speech Announces Forthcoming Energy Bill
The Queen today gave her annual speech to Parliament, setting out the Government's
legislative agenda for the next year. Included in the speech is an announcement
on the forthcoming Energy Bill, which will "create a regulatory frameork
to enable private sector investment in CCS projects". View the Energy
Bill brief and associated
webpage.
5 November 2007
IPPR Publishes Research Reports on UK Emissions Target
Two new reports simultaneously published today by the Institute for Public
Policy Research (IPPR) set out the possibility of the UK achieving an 80%
cut in CO2 emissions by 2050 and what would be needed to achieve such a cut.
The report 80% Challenge: Delivering a low-carbon UK, jointly written by the
IPPR, WWF and RSPB looks at domestic measures to achieve the desired cut,
including "switching to low-carbon technologies in the electricity sector...alongside
a roll out of new Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies". View
both reports here.
9 October 2007
Further Details on Government CCS Competition Announced
Alongside the Pre-Budget Report, which was released today, the Department
for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform today announced further details
on the UK Government's Competition to build a CCS plant in the UK (to be launched
in November).
View the announcement
as well as associated
documents on the Competition.
The Association responded with the following press
release (pdf)
28 September 2007
Yorkshire Cultivates Green Image
A study into Carbon Capture and Storage in Yorkshire has today been launched
by CCSA member Yorkshire Forward. The largest study into CCS in the UK, the
steering group consists of key partners BP, Shell, E.ON, Drax and Scottish
and Southern Energy and brings together the three coal-fired power stations
in the region, Drax, Ferrybridge and Eggborough. View the full
article.
27 September 2007
New South Wales to Build CCS Plant
The state government of New South Wales have today announced a new $5 million
carbon capture plant to be built on the central coast. The plant aims to pave
the way for a much larger $150 million demonstration project, which could
capture over 50,000 tonness of carbon dioxide per year.
View the full
story.
30 August 2007
Government Publishes Coal Forum Report
The Government have today released a report on the work of the UK Coal Forum
from November 2006 to June 2007. The report emphasises the importance of modern
coal-fired power, with the ability to make a contribution to security of supply,
competitiveness and sustainability. View the full
report.
26 June 2007
Green light for CCS as OSPAR Approves Amendment
The last barrier to the storage of CO2 in the sub-seabed
was today removed as 1992 OSPAR Convention to protect the marine environment
of the North-East Atlantic approved an amendment to allow "all forms
of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in sub-seabed geological formations".
The amendment was led by the UK, Norway and the Netherlands and follows a
similar amendment to the London Convention, which came into force on 1st February
2007. View the full press
release.
22 June 2007
Alstom and Statoil to Test new Capture Technology in Norway
CCSA members Alstom and Statoil have today signed a contract to test new chilled
ammonia technology for CO2 capture designed by Alstom. The technology is particularly
applicable for natural gas combined cycle power plants and will be tested
as a 40MW facility at Statoil's Mongstad refinery in Norway. Initially, the
facility will capture at least 80,000 tones of CO2 per year, with technological
advances leading to development of a larger capture facility able to capture
over 2 million tons of CO2 per year. View the full
article.
June 2007
North Sea Basin Task Force Publishes First Report
The joint UK/Norway North Sea Basin Task Force, set up in November 2005 has
published its first deliverable report on the issues surrounding transport
and storage of CO2 under the North Sea. View the full
report.
For earlier news stories, please visit the news archive here
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