Five applications were selected for negotiations from the FOA under the CarbonSAFE initiative, which seeks to characterize storage complexes of at least 50 million metric tons and accelerate wide-scale deployment of CCUS. Read more here
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy announced up to $131 million for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) research and development (R&D) projects through one new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) and the winners of five project selections from a previous FOA. Read more here
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $22 million for research aimed at achieving breakthroughs in the effort to capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air. Read more here
The Elegancy ACT project will present its findings on CCS and hydrogen in a webinar series. The series starts off on 18 June with a presentation of key findings and recommendations and it includes high-level participation from the European Commission and Forschungzentrum Jülich. Read more here
LAUNCH, an international research project focusing on the development of novel carbon capture solvents for use at scale by industry and as part of efforts to speed the delivery of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) worldwide, is organising its first webinar on Wed 20 May, 11:00 - 12:00 CEST. Read more here
On Tuesday 21 April, the Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative hosted a webinar on Direct Air Capture of CO2. Recording and slides are now available here .
The Pre-ACT project (www.sintef.no/pre-act) will during the spring of 2020 arrange a series of webinars summarizing important findings from nearly three years of research on topics ranging from CO2 pre-injection modelling/experimental studies and novel monitoring concepts, to conformance verification strategies, decision making guidelines, and storage case studies in the North Sea. The webinars are open to all and include a Q&A, as an efficient means of communication in times of travel/event restrictions.
Details are available from this PDF file.
Last month, in the UK Parliament a debate was held concerning waste incineration facilities and issues of the relationship between the WtE sector and CO₂ emissions and CCS were raised. Read more here
The 2nd Pre-ACT Stakeholder meeting held on 10 October 2019 in Brussels was well attended by policy/law makers from the EC/European Parliament, industry (oil-gas companies), R&D institutes/universities, NGOs and ACT project partners. Read more here
Following a rigorous two stage evaluation process, twelve (12) projects submitted for the Second ACT call were selected by an independent international panel. The new ACT2 projects cover a wide range of the CCUS area. Read more here
The project has made excellent progress in 2019 and is well on track to achieve all goals outlined in the proposal. Please read more here
ACT is organizing the 4th Knowledge Sharing workshop in Athens 6 November 2019. The ACT projects are generating results that could pave way for CCS deployment worldwide and the workshop will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about ACT and CCS.
More details, including the draft program are available in the attached brochure.
The midterm review meeting for the ACT1 projects was held in the Netherlands on 11 and 12 June 2019. The meeting was a face to face evaluation moment for the large ACT granted projects (>3 M€ funding), Pre-ACT, Align-CCUS and Elegancy, after 18 months implementation. Read more here
Balkan Clean Energy Transition Conference and Fair is a four-day international event (19 - 22 September) covering Clean Energy topics such as renewables, energy efficiency, smart cities, circular economy, mobility, governance and citizen engagement, all of them leading the Balkan area throughout the coal transition. Read more here
The ACT Consortium received 26 proposals that have been independently evaluated and ranked by external CCUS experts. Based on this evaluation, the ACT Consortium notified 12 projects, with a combined budget of €31 million, that they were selected to move forward with award negotiations, which is to take place this summer. Read more here
The Committee on Climate Change (the CCC) is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008 providing advice to government on building a low-carbon economy and preparing for climate change. Read more about the CCC´s latest reports here
This meeting will provide attendees with a chance to share in the knowledge and insights gained by more than 200 Department of Energy-sponsored research projects from the Department’s Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Natural Gas Programs. A mixture of plenary, multi-topic breakout, and interactive poster sessions will provide opportunities for discussion and collaboration on the subject research efforts, both domestic and international. Read more here
ACT Coordinator: Aage Stangeland, The Research Council of Norway
P.O Box 564 N-1327 Lysaker, Norway
Visiting address: Drammensveien 288, 0283 Oslo
E-mail: ast@rcn.no
