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Carbon capture and storage needed for new coal-fired power stations
The Environment Agency has recommended that no new coal-fired power stations should be built unless they can capture and store carbon emissions. In its response to the Government’s consultation on carbon capture and storage, the Environment Agency called for faster progress on proving carbon capture and storage technology on a commercial scale. Lord Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment ...
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Immediate clean energy investment to create 100,000 North Sea jobs by 2050
Considerable opportunities exist for those in the oil and gas sector to take their experience and help the transition to a net zero North Sea . This transformational report named ‘ Reimagining a Net Zero North Sea: an integrated vision for 2050’ shows how adaptation, new investment in technology, retraining existing staff to new roles and adoption of new technology like carbon ...
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China leading global efforts on clean coal
China is come a step closer to capturing and storing its carbon emissions with the launch of the GreenGen coal gasification plant in Tianjin, according to a report in Nature. Carbon capture and storage was highlighted by the leaders of the G8 group of nations in 2008, when they called for the development of 20 large-scale projects demonstrating carbon capture technologies by 2010. But with the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Committee welcomes the Government’s decision to open its £9bn CCS demonstration programme to gas plants
The Government has announced that the carbon capture and storage demonstration programme will be opened to gas-fired as well as coal fired-plants. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, said “Government is reasserting its mission to lead the world on CCS, by opening our funding process to what could be one of the first ever commercial-scale CCS projects on a ...
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Support urged for North Sea carbon storage plan
The North Sea basin task force, a high-level British-Norwegian working group set up in 2005 to develop a joint approach to carbon capture and storage (CCS), has called for 'financial and other incentives' to encourage the deployment of CCS in the region. 'CCS may initially need to be supported by state aid up to 100 percent, breaching EU rules,' UK energy minister Peter Truscott said on a visit ...
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Shale gas unlikely to be the solution to the UK`s future energy needs
Over recent years the UK has become ever more dependent on the import of gas to supply our energy needs, presenting risks for our future energy security. In a presentation to the annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in Edinburgh today (Tuesday 3 July 2012) Professor Mike Bradshaw, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, will argue that a ...
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EC calls for proposals for EUR 4bn worth of energy investments
The European Commission has launched a call for proposals covering key energy infrastructure projects such as energy interconnections, offshore wind energy and carbon capture and storage as part of the implementation of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR), on which the Council and the Parliament recently reached agreement. Project promoters are invited to submit their proposals by ...
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New study shows potential value of UK’s offshore wind 19 May 2010
The Offshore Valuation Group, today publishes the first full economic valuation of the UK’s offshore renewable resource. The study was part-funded by the CCC, one of a range of commissioning organisations of the independent study, which included the UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments, and eight energy companies. The study suggests that the offshore renewable energy industry in the UK could ...
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Scotland told to hold off on new coal power until ready for CCS
Scotland, which has just issued a report extolling its potential for carbon capture and storage, should hold off on constructing any new coal-fired power stations until carbon storage becomes a reality, WWF-Scotland said last week. The government study, Opportunities for C02 Storage Around Scotland, notes that “evidence for climate change and its potentially catastrophic effects on the world is ...
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Cranfield Opens New Clean Energy Research Centre
Cranfield University’s new £2 million high-tech energy laboratory was officially opened on Tuesday by Jonathan Holyoak, Head of Policy for the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, on behalf of Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Ministers. The Energy Technology Laboratory houses a range of near industrial-scale equipment for research and development of clean and renewable ...
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Scottish sandstone rocks could hold up to 100 years of carbon emissions
New scientist report estimates the Captain sandstone could store carbon emissions from power stations in Scotland using CCS technology New report found sandstone rocks under the North Sea could hold up to a century's worth of carbon emissions from Scotland’s power industry and create tens of thousands of new jobs. The study has estimated that the rock formation, known as Captain ...
By Vital Energi
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EC and World Energy Council discuss the challenges of a sustainable energy future
The European Commission and the World Energy Council (WEC) held a joint seminar today, featuring topics ranging from Europe's vulnerability in terms of security of energy supply to new technologies, which will help ensure a sustainable energy environment. 'Security of energy supply and sustainability go hand in hand and figure prominently on the EU's energy agenda. But facing these challenges ...
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Scottish first minister opens new sustainable centre
Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond has opened the Scottish European Green Energy Centre (SEGEC). The European Regional Development Fund is to provide GBP1.6 million worth of funding while the Scottish government is also planning to invest GBP1 million in the project. Offshore wind, marine energy, carbon capture and storage and renewable heat will be some of the areas the fund will focus on. ...
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New DNV GL Research Sees Long-Term Expansion of Hydrogen Use for Energy
'Hydrogen as an energy carrier' predicts demand for hydrogen for heating residential and commercial space, heat for industry, and transport to reach between 39 and 161 million tonnes of hydrogen per annum (Mtpa) in 2050, under various modelled scenarios. Currently, only about 1,000 tonnes of hydrogen production is for energy each year, mostly for hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles. This ...
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Coal-Fired Plants - Opportunity Assessment and Key Country Analysis to 2025
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Coal-Fired Plants - Opportunity Assessment and Key Country Analysis to 2025 ...
By ReportLinker
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Obama announces steps to boost biofuels, clean coal
President Barack Obama has announced a series of steps his Administration is taking as part of its comprehensive strategy to enhance American energy independence while building a foundation for a new clean energy economy, and its promise of new industries and millions of jobs. At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, the President laid out three measures that ...
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Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation - Carbon Trust response
Carbon Trust response to the Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation, which sets out support levels for renewable electricity technologies for the period 2013 to 2017 James Wilde, Director of Innovation and Policy at the Carbon Trust said: "The Government's decision to reduce the support provided to onshore wind by 10% is sensible as it is based upon evidence of costs falling. Given the ...
By Carbon Trust
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MEPs vote to equip power plants to store CO2 underground
The European Parliament's Environment Committee wants all larger power stations built from 2015 onwards to be equipped with the new carbon capture and storage technology (CCS), which stores CO2 emissions permanently underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, it said in a co-decision vote on Tuesday. MEPs had already proposed financing demonstration projects through the revised ...
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Millions of Euros for innovative wind energy demonstration projects
A call for renewable energy project funding, which potentially totals tens of millions of Euros under NER300, was launched by the European Commission today. NER300 is the EU's funding programme for innovative demonstration projects for renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS). However while no CCS projects qualified for funding as part of the first call in 2011, renewables projects ...
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Cutting edge low carbon energy projects get £5 million funding boost
Companies developing cutting edge low carbon energy projects in generation, efficiency and storage - such as capturing carbon emissions or turning buildings into power stations - have the chance to bid for an extra £5 million of funding in the fourth round of the Government’s Energy Entrepreneurs’ Fund (EEF). Today also sees 19 projects being awarded a share of the £9 ...
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