Video:
Welcome to Bucharest
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CCS EXHIBITION
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"Europe’s electricity sector is working towards a low-carbon future –
but it needs clear policies, flexibility in the power sources it can use,
and support for CCS"
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Lars G. Josefsson
President of EURELECTRIC
President & CEO of Vattenfall |
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the theme of a
special focus exhibition on the sidelines of EURELECTRIC’s annual
conference this year. At this exhibition, several European power
companies will present their CCS projects and make a presentation on
their vision of what role CCS can play in Europe and beyond. Confirmed
participants include:
In the past few years CCS has become a mainstream policy issue, as the
technology is no longer regarded as a pipedream, but as a serious option for
large-scale CO2 abatement world-wide.
CCS holds great promise for large combustion installations, such as power
plants, to be able to continue to use fossil fuels while dramatically reducing
their CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. The flipside of the coin is the
decrease in plant efficiency, which will have to be countered by further
technological development.
Most of the technologies used for capturing, transporting and storing of CO2
are already well known, but have not been proven in practice on large scale.
Also, the costs are still prohibitively high for CCS plants to survive under the
current CO2 price levels. Therefore, a large-scale demonstration programme
must be established, with adequate funding, to prove the technologies in large
scale and to help bring down their cost.
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The principle of Capture and underground Storage of CO2
CCS is a series of technologies enabling the capture of CO2
from fossil fuel fired power stations and other industrial
installations, its transport and its safe storage underground.
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