Bellona nuclear digest. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: January 28, 2013
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The European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) adopted its own-initiative report on the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050 on 24 January.
The Energy Roadmap explores the challenges of delivering the EU’s decarbonisation objective while at the same time guaranteeing competitiveness and security of energy supply. It underlines the need for CCS to be applied to power generation from both coal and gas-fired power plants and heavy industry. Based on five different decarbonisation scenarios for the EU energy sector the Roadmap highlights that CCS could account for up to one-third of decarbonised electricity generation by the middle of the century, according to one scenario, while the share of CCS in decarbonising the power sector is estimated at 19% to 24% in other scenarios.
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The report adopted by the ITRE Committee ‘stresses that CCS developed in an economically efficient, safe and sustainable way will need to be in use on a commercial scale as soon as possible’ Furthermore, it ‘highlights that CCS is also an important option for the decarbonisation of several energy intensive industries such as oil refining aluminium smelting and cement production’
The Commission intends to publish its Communication on CCS in the spring this year. The report on the first round of NER300 will be presented to the Climate Change Committee in February following which the decision about the launch of a second round of the competition will be made.
A draft version of the Communication was distributed for public consultation, where the Commission calls for far greater commitment from both governments and industry, including those providing fossil fuels.
Read Bellona statement on the draft here.
Read more about CO2 storage on Bellona’s CCS web.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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