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EU CO2 infrastructure in bloom: PCI/PMI candidates spread South and East, become multimodal, cross-border, and storage-centred

Publish date: January 17, 2023

We encourage CCS stakeholders to answer the open consultation for which we at Bellona offer our overview of and take on the candidate projects and their potential to contribute towards the rapid upscale of CCS deployment and by extension, industrial decarbonisation.

On the 21st of December, the European Commission published the 1st list of Union candidate projects in the thematic area of cross-border Carbon Dioxide transport and storage networks applying for Project of Common Interest (PCI) or Project of Mutual Interest (PMI) status. Stakeholders have until the 16th of March to answer the open consultation. We encourage CCS stakeholders to answer the open consultation for which we at Bellona offer our overview of and take on the candidate projects and their potential to contribute towards the rapid upscale of CCS deployment and by extension, industrial decarbonisation.

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EU CO2 Infrastructure in Bloom: PCI/PMI candidates spread South and East, become multimodal, cross-border, and storage-centred

Deadline 16 March 2023: Consultation on the list of candidate Projects of Common Interest in all infrastructure categories (europa.eu)

1st Union list of PCI and PMI candidate projects under the TEN-E Regulation

The number of candidate projects each country is involved in.

Storage sites to be developed as part of 1st Union list of PCIPMI candidate projects

Red targets indicate PMI projects; green targets indicate PCI projects.

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