Oct 29, 2015
The term ‘Carbon Capture and Storage’ (CCS) has been too narrowly focused on capturing CO2 emissions from coal power and building large transport and storage networks for deep geologic storage. In fact, CCS covers a suite of technologies for capturing CO2...
Aug 31, 2015
There are strong environmental imperatives for reducing CO2 and the circular economy can play a critical role in delivering on emissions targets. At present, conventional fossil fuel energy plants along with many industrial facilities operate a linear process In many...
Jun 4, 2015
To promote CCS and other methods of deep industrial decarbonisation, a combination of additional Member State and EU support will be needed, well beyond the proposed Modernisation and NER 400 funds. A supporting policy should be explored based on Contracts For...
Oct 30, 2014
The UK government is currently (October 2014) consulting on next steps for Carbon Capture & Storage in the UK, and Sandbag has responded. Though a regulatory framework has begun to mature, progress on commercial-level CCS has been disappointing, with the UK yet to...
Jul 31, 2014
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a variety of processes for extracting CO2 from large point sources and permanently storing it, has been recognised by the European Commission since the 2008 Impact Assessment as an essential part of Europe’s low carbon pathway....