Carbon capture may be key for decarbonising Europe

Subject Outlook for decarbonisation in Europe. Significance Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is making a comeback as EU countries adopt ever more ambitious climate change targets. It is seen as a key enabler in the deployment of hydrogen technologies in particular. However, social acceptance remains uncertain and a new model for carbon transport and storage based on a publicly utility model is likely to be needed to gain buy-in from private sector companies. Impacts CCUS funding will support the exploration of new emissions reduction technologies. CCUS progress, or lack of it, is likely to affect the speed of hydrogen technology adoption. Transporting carbon dioxide by ship will provide a new income stream for shipbuilders and owners.

Significance The country has made considerable progress in recent years on energy security and cutting emissions. However, achieving the 2050 target requires the development of a hydrogen strategy, a breakthrough on carbon capture and storage (CCS), significant electrification of transport, and a huge expansion of solar and wind power. Impacts Offshore wind again looks likely to be the main beneficiary of the government’s next CfD bid rounds. Hydrogen technologies appear set to become the next major area of innovation and growth within the renewables sector. CCS will remain a problematic area of development.


2021 ◽  
pp. petgeo2020-136
Author(s):  
Quentin Fisher ◽  
Frauke Schaefer ◽  
Ieva Kaminskaite ◽  
David N Dewhurst ◽  
Graham Yielding

Predicting the sealing capacity of faults and caprocks has been a long-standing uncertainty for those involved in the exploration, appraisal and development of petroleum reservoirs. In more recent years, interest in the topic has increased in a wide range of other applications, particularly those related to the decarbonization of our energy supply such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), radioactive waste disposal, geothermal energy production and underground energy storage (e.g. compressed air, hydrogen). Knowledge of how faults impact fluid flow is also important for management of drinking water supplies. To communicate new advances in research in these areas, the EAGE organized the first international conference on Fault and Top Seals in 2003. These conferences have continued to be held at roughly 4 yearly intervals and have brought together scientists from a wide range of disciplines to discuss new research findings and workflows relevant to predicting fault and top seal behaviour, as well as presenting case studies covering both successful and unsuccessful attempts to predict sealing capacity.Thematic collection: This article is part of the Fault and top seals collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/fault-and-top-seals-2019


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12278
Author(s):  
Katja Witte

To limit global warming, the use of carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS) is considered to be of major importance. In addition to the technical–economic, ecological and political aspects, the question of social acceptance is a decisive factor for the implementation of such low-carbon technologies. This study is the first literature review addressing the acceptance of industrial CCS (iCCS). In contrast to electricity generation, the technical options for large-scale reduction of CO2 emissions in the energy-intensive industry sector are not sufficient to achieve the targeted GHG neutrality in the industrial sector without the use of CCS. Therefore, it will be crucial to determine which factors influence the acceptance of iCCS and how these findings can be used for policy and industry decision-making processes. The results show that there has been limited research on the acceptance of iCCS. In addition, the study highlights some important differences between the acceptance of iCCS and CCS. Due to the technical diversity of future iCCS applications, future acceptance research must be able to better address the complexity of the research subject.


Subject Carbon capture and storage technology. Significance Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered critical to achieving the ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. CCS technology would allow power plants and industrial facilities to continue burning fossil fuels without pumping climate change-inducing gases into the atmosphere. However, deployment of CCS has been slow and the prospect of meeting the expectations placed upon it by the Paris climate negotiators is moving further out of scope. The recent cancellation of the Kemper CCS project in the United States is a bad sign for the future of the technology. Impacts Without faster deployment of CCS, many countries will struggle to meet their Paris Agreement emissions reduction pledges. If the rollout of CCS continues to falter, more wind and solar power will be needed to reduce carbon emissions. Absent a viable CCS model, it will be even more difficult to replace aged coal plants in the United States and other developed economies.


Significance The extent of their preparedness reflects a combination of willingness and ability. Willingness is evident in government policy and in the public's environmental consciousness and support for government targets and policies. Ability stems from wealth, both public and private, industrial expertise and the capacity to innovate. Impacts North European countries are likely to take a lead in hydrogen and carbon capture and storage technologies. Lower-income European countries will struggle to raise capital to invest in electricity transmission. Those countries able to develop deployable clean energy technologies will be better placed to offset the costs of transition.


Significance The companies use carbon offsets in a bid to sustain demand in the face of rising concern about methane emissions, evolving sustainability criteria, the adoption of carbon net-zero targets and a decline in public sector funding for LNG supply chain infrastructure. They are also seeking to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) impact of their operations. Impacts Downstream LNG infrastructure projects will find it more difficult to raise public and private finance. Carbon-neutral LNG deliveries will make a negligible contribution to limiting climate change. The adoption of carbon capture and storage to cut emissions from LNG liquefaction will offer insights for other sectors.


2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 172033
Author(s):  
Katja Pietzner ◽  
D Schumann ◽  
M Fischedick ◽  
A Esken

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