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PORTUGAL: First CCS project launched
Publish date: September 21, 2009
Written by: Martina Novak
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PORTUGAL: First CCS project launched
On 8 September the very first Portuguese CCS project was launched in the presence of the Minister of Environment and Economy and the Innovation Secretary of State as well as the local government and several energy companies. The project shall assess the feasibility of applying CCS at the Pego coal power plant, i.e. identify suitable geological formations for CO2 storage and assess costs and needs to retrofit the plant. The project will take 12 months.
The project is co-funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the EU-funded Operational Agenda for Competitiveness Factors (COMPETE) and will be jointly developed by the University of Évora and the National Laboratory for Energy and Geology (LNEG), Tejo Energia (the plant owners) and Pegop (plant operators).
The Pego coal-fired power plant is owned by Tejo Energia, a joint venture between International Power (50%), Endesa (39%) and Energias de Portugal (EDP) (11%). The power plant, located near the river Tejo in central Portugal, has a capacity of around 600 megawatt (MW) electricity and emits around four megatonnes of CO2 per year.
Tejo Energia has also begun to build a new combined cycle gas turbine plant. The 530 million euro project will use natural gas as fuel and is expected to fully operate in the first quarter of 2011. By 2011 and with an installed capacity of 1,430 MW (600 MW produced by the coal-fired power plant and 830 MW by the new gas plant), the Pego area will be the most important electricity producing region in Portugal.
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