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Carbon capture and storage

I am pleased to inform Parliament that today, the Prime Minister and I are signing a contract with Shell to take their world leading gas carbon capture and storage (CCS) project into the next stage of development. The Government has agreed a multi-million pound contract for engineering, design and financial work on the Peterhead CCS project in Aberdeenshire. The world’s first planned gas ...

Feb. 24, 2014

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Carbon Capture and Storage Industry Day

In his first engagement on CCS since coming to office, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey today reiterated the Coalition Government’s commitment to supporting carbon capture and storage. Speaking following CCS Industry Day, he said: “Since I first read about the technology back in 2005 I’ve held the view that carbon capture and storage is crucial to a low ...

Feb. 22, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Call for more investment in carbon capture and storage

More investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is urgently needed according to Herbert Huppert, director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, UK. He told environmentalresearchweb "While there are several projects in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, there are no projects in South America, India, Russia or most of Africa, and only a few in China. ...

May 5, 2011

By GLOBE SERIES

UK allocates up to £60m to support development of CCS in emerging markets

Climate Change Minister Greg Barker today announced the allocation of up to £60m ($96m) to support the development of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology in emerging markets. The Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) Action Group recommended that $200m is allocated internationally to accelerate the deployment of CCS in the near term, (the £60m is the UK’s contribution ...

Apr. 25, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Expert chair appointed to the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage

Patrick Dixon has been appointed as Expert Chair of the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage (OCCS), within the Department of Energy and Climate Change, for a two year period, following an open and fair recruitment process. Energy Minister Charles Hendry said: “I am delighted that Patrick Dixon has been recruited to this important post. Patrick has significant relevant experience ...

Dec. 16, 2011

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Taking pollution out of our power stations

Minister of State for Energy, Matthew Hancock, today signed an agreement with Canada to work together on research and knowledge sharing for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) - a technology which dramatically reduces carbon emissions. The Joint Statement identifies how the UK and Canada will work together on research and innovation cooperation, knowledge sharing and international engagement and ...

Nov. 18, 2014

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Ensuring safe carbon capture and storage in China

Tsinghua University is partnering with WRI to develop guidelines for China’s deployment of CCS technology. Many have said that we can’t solve the climate change challenge without a solution for coal. Nowhere is this truer than in China, which already uses more coal than the U.S, the European Union and Japan combined. Many experts are now looking at carbon capture and storage—known as CCS—as the ...

Mar. 2, 2009

By Worldwatch Institute

UK government reaffirms commitment to CCS

The UK government today announced the next steps on the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) demonstration programme, after the conclusion of negotiations for a CCS demonstration project at Longannet in Scotland. A decision has been made not to proceed with Longannet but to pursue other projects with the £1 billion pounds funding made available by the Government. The decision balances the ...

Oct. 19, 2011

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

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 ...

Sep. 25, 2008

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

The Quest for carbon capture and storage

Shell today announced that it will go ahead with the first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation in Canada. The Quest project will be built on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint venture owners (Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil) and with support from the Governments of Canada and Alberta. "Carbon capture & storage (CCS) is critical to meeting the ...

Sep. 5, 2012

By GLOBE SERIES

Accounting for Carbon Capture and Storage

A new report recently released by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) provides the first-ever comprehensive framework for calculating carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions from carbon capture and storage (CCS). The framework equips policymakers and project developers with common methodologies for quantifying the emission impacts of CCS projects. CCS involves a suite of ...

Feb. 24, 2012

By GLOBE SERIES

Carbon capture and storage: climate impacts

One proposal for meeting targets for the reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is to capture and store CO2 that is emitted by fossil fuel burning power stations. In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could help mitigate against climate change, especially in the short term. Using CCS, CO2 emitted from energy or industrial plants could be ...

Mar. 3, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

Ecofys supports CCS Summer School in China

Facilitating international collaborative research on greenhouse gas mitigation is one of the objectives of the IEA Greenhouse Gas Programme (IEAGHG). Annually, the IEAGHG organises an international summer school on carbon capture and storage (CCS). This year’s CCS Summer School will be hosted by the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China from 12 – 18 August 2012. More than 50 selected ...

Aug. 1, 2012

By Ecofys

Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Reduction Task Force appoints supremo

Energy Minister Charles Hendry today announced that Dr Jeff Chapman has accepted the position of Chair of the new Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Reduction Task Force. As announced in the CCS Roadmap last month, the Task Force is being set up to help tackle the challenge of ensuring that CCS is cost competitive with other low carbon technologies by the early 2020s. Dr Chapman is Chief Executive ...

May 1, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage receives £150k

The Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise have each committed £50,000 to support the UK’s largest research, industry and government partnership in carbon capture, use and storage. Established with SFC funding in 2005, Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS) is a research and knowledge exchange partnership between Heriot-Watt University, the ...

Feb. 18, 2019

By Future Energy Publishing Ltd - Carbon Capture Journal Ltd

Carbon Capture and Storage Market to gain prominence with the rising concerns over environmental degradation

Growing demand for carbon technologies to meet 20C scenario along with strict government regulations to curb carbon footprint will drive the carbon capture and storage market size. Product ability to reduce carbon emission by 85% to 90% makes its adoption preferable over other available alternates. According to New Source Performance Standards in the U.S., the new coal fired plant can emit 1400 ...

Apr. 6, 2018

By Global Market Insights, Inc.

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 ...

Dec. 1, 2020

By UK and Ireland Spill Association Ltd.

Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage project

Edward Davey is at Peterhead today (Feb. 24, 2014) announcing funding for the next stage of Shell’s Peterhead CCS project. Find out more: read the Peterhead press notice read the Written Ministerial Statement find out more about Carbon Capture and Storage find out more about the CCS Commercialisation Competition The FEED study will allow a detailed programme of engineering, ...

Feb. 24, 2014

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Is carbon capture and storage coming to Canada?

According to a report just released by a government-commissioned panel, Canadian governments generally should spend close to $2 billion to encourage carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report echoes recent plans by the Government of Alberta to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions in this manner. Unfortunately real world testing of CCS technologies, ...

Feb. 4, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

7 CEMS for the experimental Spanish CO2 Capture Plant!

In order to establish the variation of operating conditions of the plant and to determine in real time emissions of pollutants at different points, 7 MIR systems will be placed, among others, at the entrance of the SCR DENOx, and at the entrance and the exit of the DESOx system, on stack, etc. ... La Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN), set up in May 2006, is the main Spanish ...

Feb. 23, 2011

By ENVEA

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