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20 Spring 2019 European Energy Innovation

CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE

GHG emissions trajectory in a
1.5°C SCENARIO

Figure 1 COM(2018) 773 final, “A Clean Planet for All”

technologies through large dedicated incinerator and a cement plant. If happening in the Port of Rotterdam,
funds, in particular the European successful, its storage infrastructure from whose area 20% of the Dutch
Energy Programme for Recovery could also serve CO2 that is shipped CO2 emissions are emitted. Extending
(EEPR) and the NER 300 programme. to Norway from capture sites in the the existing infrastructure to
Despite this EU support and European Union. Another project is capture CO2 from various emission
engagement, neither the proposed
six large EEPR CCS projects nor the CCS will be required to reduce emissions of any
one awarded NER 300 funding took remaining fossil fuels use (power sector, industry)
off. Various factors contributed to a
withdrawal of national support and in the different scenarios
project developers discontinuing the
projects. These included adverse Figure 2 Scenario Analysis Results for CCUS (carbon capture,
investment conditions, a carbon usage, storage)
price which plummeted during
the economic crisis, renewables
that started to take off at rapidly
decreasing costs and provided
cheaper alternatives to decarbonise
the energy sector, and, in some
cases, hostile public opinion.

However, today we see a renewed
interest in carbon capture utilisation
and storage hubs and clusters, CCS
for clean hydrogen, and the transport
of CO2 by ship, which all could
help advance CCS technologies at
commercial scale in Europe. Among
these projects is the Norwegian
Northern Lights development, which
provides the infrastructure for
storing captured CO2 from a waste

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