Posts Tagged ‘carbon storage’

23 February 2009

Nuon, Vattenfall join forces to create European energy company

European energy companies Nuon and Vattenfall are to join forces. Vattenfall has made an all cash offer of €8.5bn enterprise value for 100 per cent of Nuon, equalling €10.3bn for the equity of Nuon's production and supply company after 2008 dividends.

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23 February 2009

ION Engineering creates new technology for carbon capture

New cleantech company ION Engineering, founded by University of Colorado scientists, has been able to integrate ionic liquid solutions into carbon capture and emissions control technology.

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13 February 2009

2009 a pivotal year for emerging carbon sequestration industry, reportp

2009 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for a global industry seeking commercial solutions for capturing and storing harmful greenhouse gases emitted by coal power plants. Nearly 120 carbon sequestration projects are underway globally with the majority of development in western Europe, the US, western Canada and Australia. If demonstration projects are successful and designated government funding comes through, the industry will be well-positioned to scale by 2016, according to a new study released by Emerging Energy Research (EER), a Cambridge MA advisory firm in the renewable energy sector.

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11 February 2009

Global Carbon Sequestration Markets and Strategies, 2009-2030p

If coal is to maintain its share in the global power generation mix over the next two decades, its carbon emissions must be mitigated through the capture of CO2. However, carbon capture relies on commercially-viable solutions to store or sequester CO2 permanently. While sequestration solutions have been demonstrated on a trial basis, carbon sequestration's commercial viability on a broadscale is still uncertain., according to this report from Emerging Energy Research.

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9 December 2008

Europe’s energy organisations call for strong government funding

Major European energy organisations have issued a letter to all heads of government in advance of the European Council Meeting on 11 December 2008, calling for strong funding to support the development of 12 industrial scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects by 2015.

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23 October 2008

Carbon capture and storagep

For all the recent talk of CCS’s potential role in reducing CO2 emissions, against increasingly ambitious carbon reduction commitments by Member State governments in Europe, CCS is still as untested and expensive a technology as ever, according to this briefing from Allen & Overy. This technology, with its potential for trapping CO2 from a variety of industrial plant from refineries to cement plant and storing it securely in rock, could indeed be a valuable tool in the battle against climate change.

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