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Publish date: March 7, 2011
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At the time of inauguration, Enel and Eni have completed the design stage and the monitoring activities have already started in order to assess CO₂ levels in the storage area; only the final authorizations are missing. The post-combustion pilot plant allows to capture up to a maximum of 8,000t CO₂ per year from Federico II to be stored at Cortemaggiore. From 2012 on, the pilot storage plant will be operational.
The “Federico II” thermal power plant which started operations in 1997, has a key role in electricity generation with its total installed capacity of 2,640 MW (made up of four 660 MW coal-fired units). Its retrofitting is therefore a step forward for CCS development in Italy.
The first application on an industrial scale will be at Enel’s new coal plant in Porto Tolle (Rovigo). The plant will treat 810 000m3 of fumes per hour (40% of those from one of three 660 MW units operating at the plant), separating up to 1 million metric tons of CO₂ per year, which will be stored in a saline aquifer deep below the Adriatic Sea.
The European Union granted Enel €100m in funding through the European Energy Recovery Programme (EERP) for its pilot project in Brindisi and for preliminary work on the larger-scale Porto Tolle plant, which will benefit from the know-how acquired with the Brindisi project.
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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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