Tensions in the energy transition: Swedish and Finnish company perspectives on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

Analyzing the case of France, this article aims to explain how the development of enhanced oil recovery techniques over the last decade contributed to politicizing the subsurface, that is putting underground resources at the center of social unrest and political debates. France faced a decline of its oil and gas activity in the 1990s, followed by a renewal with subsurface activity in the late 2000s using enhanced oil recovery techniques. An industrial demonstrator for carbon capture and storage was developed between 2010 and 2013 , while projects targeting unconventional oil and gas were pushed forward between 2008 and 2011 before eventually being canceled. We analyze how the credibility, legitimacy, and governance of those techniques were developed and how conflicts made the role of the subsurface for energy transition the target of political choices. The level of political and industrial support and social protest played a key role in building project legitimacy, while the types of narratives and their credibility determined the distinct trajectories of hydraulic fracturing and carbon capture and storage in France. The conflicts over enhanced oil recovery techniques are also explained through the critical assessment of the governance framework that tends to exclude civil society stakeholders. We suggest that these conflicts illustrated a new type of politicization of the subsurface by merging geostrategic concerns with social claims about governance, ecological demands about pollution, and linking local preoccupations to global climate change.

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The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage in the Energy Transition

Energy & Fuels ◽

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c00032 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hon Chung Lau ◽

Seeram Ramakrishna ◽

Kai Zhang ◽

Adiyodi Veettil Radhamani

Keyword(s):

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Energy Transition ◽

And Storage

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Implementation of Indonesia coal downstream policy in the trend of fossil energy transition

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/882/1/012083 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 882 (1) ◽

pp. 012083

Author(s):

C M Yasin ◽

B Yunianto ◽

S Sugiarti ◽

G K Hudaya

Keyword(s):

Carbon Capture ◽

Coal Gasification ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Value Added ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Coal Slurry ◽

Domestic Use ◽

The Government ◽

Environmental Feasibility ◽

And Storage

Abstract The implementation of downstream coal policies in Indonesia is regulated in Law Number 3 of 2020 to optimize coal’s domestic use and value-added. The policy is also supported by the issuance of fiscal, non-fiscal, and regional incentives. In Law Number 3 of 2020, the government of Indonesia states six types of coal downstream: coal upgrading; coal briquetting; cokes making; coal liquefaction; coal gasification; and coal slurry, yet the government has not defined which downstream coal products should be prioritized. Several parameters must be considered in implementing the downstream coal policy, those are the availability of coal and its characteristics, proven technology, economic and environmental feasibility. This study examines the mineral and coal sector regulation, taxation, coal resources and reserves, technology, and economics. In addition, to implement the commitment of reducing CO2 emissions, this study also considers applying Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) or Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technology to implement downstream coal policy.

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EU climate progress will be most clear in renewables

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db266440 ◽

2022 ◽

Keyword(s):

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Offshore Wind ◽

European Security ◽

Foreign Markets ◽

Content Type ◽

Electricity Grid ◽

And Storage

Significance Although the exact details of the package remain subject to clarification and amendment, it requires a much broader decarbonisation effort beyond the power sector, as well as public-sector financial commitments to higher-risk energy transition technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture and storage. Impacts Increased renewable energy capacity and wider electrification will highlight lagging investment in electricity grid infrastructure. Enhanced offshore wind targets and European developers’ desire to enter foreign markets will stretch offshore wind supply chains. Although increasingly contentious, the role of gas is likely to become more important in terms of European security of energy supply.

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Towards the International Standardization of Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transportation, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Technologies: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The) ◽

10.4314/jsdlp.v12i2.2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 157-189

Author(s):

Alexandre Gallo ◽

Eduardo G. Pereira ◽

Alberto Fossa ◽

Hannah Hylton-Edwards ◽

Thomas Muinzer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Dioxide Capture ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Technical Committee ◽

Main Question ◽

Strategic Decisions ◽

Future Directions ◽

And Storage

Climate change poses a serious threat to the development of the current and future generations. Therefore, Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transportation, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) has emerged as an essential tool to mitigate such impacts of global warming along with other initiatives and strategic decisions such as energy transition and conservation, sustainable practices amongst others. This article is focused on the CCUS practices and more specifically the peculiarities of CCUS vis-à-vis the standardization rules at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The main question this article aims to address is to determine if CCUS should have its own standing technical committee (TC) or if it should be somehow related to the existing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technical committee.

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