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Publish date: June 2, 2009
Written by: Camilla Langsholt
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“Such small pilot projects for CCS are important first steps to reduce the world’s dependence on CO2 intensive coal burning for energy supply,” says Eivind Hoff of Bellona Europa.
The capture test plant is a small-scale copy of a full-scale CO2 capture plant, which will reduce technical and commercial risks in large scale plants. The Longannet Power Station is the third biggest power station in Europe, with a net annual output of 2304 MW of electricity.
ScottishPower and Aker Clean Carbon are now starting a seven-month test period at Longannet.
For more information on CO2 capture and storage please consult Bellona’s CCS web.
Press release from Aker Clean Carbon
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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