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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): EU Information

EU leaders have recognised the potential of CCS and at the Spring Council 2007 agreed to bring about the necessary technical, economic and regulatory framework to bring environmentally safe CCS to markets, by 2020 if possible. This included an ambition for up to 12 demonstration projects by 2015. The UK Government is committed to working with the EU to support their aspirations for CCS and is active in the EU’s Zero Emission Power Plants technology platform (or ZEP) and the Berlin Forum working party.

Latest Developments:

1 April 2008

FENCO – ERA NET has now launched its 1st Joint Call for Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects on the following topics:

FENCO-ERA NET 1st Joint Call Themes

• Economic modelling and a strategy for roll out of CCS
• Public acceptance and development of public communication and outreach on CCS

More details can be found on the Fenco-Era Net website.

5 March 2008

FENCO-ERA NET is a Framework Programme 6 European Research Area Network that focuses on clean fossil energy. A pre-announcement to the 1st Joint Call for Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects has been released. The 1st Joint is expected to be published on the 1st April 2008 with the following themes:

• Economic modelling and a strategy for roll out of CCS
• Public acceptance and development of public communication
  and outreach on CCS

BERR is participating on behalf of the UK. More details can be found on the Fenco-Era Net website.

23 January 2008

As part of the January Energy and Climate Change Package, the Commission published proposals for an enabling regulatory framework for CCS in the Directive on Geological Storage of carbon dioxide. The objective of this proposal is to remove existing legislative barriers to CCS and create a regulatory framework for the safe geological storage of CO2.

Alongside this Directive a Communication on Early Demonstration of Sustainable Fossils Fuels was published, setting out the way forward as regards commercial scale demonstration of CCS. This focuses on the non-legislative barriers to CCS development and in particular to large scale demonstration of CCS. The key new action outlined in the Communication will be the establishment of a knowledge sharing network of CCS demonstration projects (referred to in the communication as an industrial initiative).

The package also contained proposals within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for CCS to be fully recognised under the scheme and recognition that CCS projects will require some state aid in the revised state aid guidelines. The EU hopes to see the January Energy and Climate Change Package agreed by the end of 2008.

More details can be found on the European Commission: Energy Package 2008 webpage.