The fresh reports give an overview of how the projects have moved forward, pointing also to the challenges and the objectives. Here are the key elements of the reports for each project:

• The Spanish OXY CFB 300 Compostilla project, based on an oxy-combustion capture plant, is devoted to demonstrate the CCS value chain (capture + transport + storage in saline formations). The main challenges of the project consist in finding an adequate financial structure, the OXY-CFB performance and scale-up and the CCS value chain integration and public perception.

• The UK Hatfield project is the equipment of an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology on a new 900 MW power plant at a 91% CO₂ emissions capture rate, with offshore storage beneath the North Sea. The front-end engineering and design (FEED) study has been completed but the environmental permit application for operation is in development with the regulator.

• As for the Jänschwalde project, significant progress has been made in the demonstration of two different CO₂ capture technologies (oxyfuel and post-combustion capture). However, the most suitable storage option has still to be chosen – it could be depleted gas field or saline formations.

• The Italian Porto Tolle project aiming to retrofit a 660 MW coal-fired power-generation group with a post-combustion CO₂ capture system, has seen the start of operations of a CO₂ capture pilot plant. The CO₂ captured at the full-scale demonstration plant will be stored offshore beneath the Adriatic Sea. The FEED study is to be completed in the first quarter of 2011.
• Finally, the Bełchatów CCS project includes a carbon capture plant (CCP) of equivalent power of >250MW and a CO₂ capture efficiency of >80% utilizing the Advanced Amine Process (AAP) and its integration with the 858 MW unit, as well as CO₂ transport and storage. Besides the FEED activities, the “capture ready” installation was launched. The CO₂ storage selection, delayed due to a lack of public support,  is planned for the first half of 2011.

The network of the demonstration projects, sponsored by the European Commission, fosters knowledge sharing amongst the EU demonstration projects, all of which aim to be operational by 2015. It is also intended to raise thus the public understanding of CCS. 

Below are links to the individual reports:

First Interim Report OXY CFB 300 Compostilla, Spain

First Interim Report Hatfield, United Kingdom

First Interim Report Jänschwalde, Germany

First Interim Report Porto Tolle, Italy

First Interim report Belchatów, Poland