CCUS in Europe’s fight against climate change, Rotterdam, 8-10 June 2022-SAVE THE DATE

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On 8, 9 & 10 June 2022, CATO, the Norwegian Embassy in The Hague, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and ERANET-ACT will jointly organize a two-day CCUS conference and an excursion, to discuss the development, challenges and opportunities for CCUS in Europe’s fight against climate change. Read more here

Sixth EAGE Workshop on CO2 Geological Storage, 4 - 6 April, 2022, London, UK

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To meet the Paris Agreement’s ambition on tackling climate change, large scale implementation of CarbonCapture and Storage (CCS) is considered essential. This has been investigated in several research initiatives during the last decade and the objective of this workshop is to present key advances made, discuss remaining technology gaps and review a way forward. This event is organized with the essential support of the EAGE technical committee members, i.e. industry specialists within the event topic's area. Read more here

ACT ERANET under H2020 has ended - Final Reports available

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ACT has now successfully completed 5 years of a productive and collaborative trajectory and has officially ended as a European Commission Initiative. ACT as a transnational funding scheme and knowledge sharing platform for CCUS projects and results was conceived in 2015. It was officially kicked off in early 2016 as a five-year initiative between funding partners from 9 countries as an ERANET scheme under H2020. Since then, the ACT consortium has grown to 16 countries/regions (including the USA, the Alberta region in Canada and India). In these years, ACT has succeeded in providing great results, impacting on the CCUS scientific community, the industry and society. The  Final Deliverables to the European Commission can give an overview and a detailed report on what ACT has envisaged and what it has achieved so far. The follow-up, monitoring and close interaction with the running projects will however continue. The ACT2-projects end in the autumn 2022/winter 2023 and the ACT3-projects will end in the autumn 2024/winter 2025.

D1.4 The ACT Final Report

D4.4 Evaluation Report on Project Results

D7.2 Collaboration with European CCUS Initiatives

D5.3 Evaluation Report on Communication

23&24 November 2021, CCUS conference on Development, Challenges and Opportunities for CCUS in Europe’s fight against climate change-Postponed until Spring 2022

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On 23-24 November 2021, CATO, the Norwegian Embassy in The Hague, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and ACT, will jointly organize a two-day CCUS conference in which the development, challenges and opportunities for CCUS in Europe’s fight against climate change will be discussed. Read more here. Please check for any updates here

ACT in the CETP (Clean Energy Transition Partnership) Dialogue series

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ACT kicked off the Clean Energy Transition Partnership Programme Dialogues on 15 January 2021. The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) will be a multilateral and strategic partnership of national and regional RDI programmes in European Countries and beyond, with the aim to accelerate innovation by joining forces internationally. The CETP will start in 2022 and will build on existing H2020 ERANETs. This Programme Dialogues series aims to highlight existing collaborations and good practices, mainly in existing ERANETs. The recording is available on youtube here

LAUNCH Webinar 2 on CO2 Degradation Database-collecting datasets for solvent R&D, 15 April 2021, 11-12 p.m. CEST

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LAUNCH project organises its second webinar to introduce the new LAUNCH CO2 Degradation Database, which will share information and analytics on CO2 capture solvent degradation derived from their own solvent testing programme but also from other solvent-testing campaigns.  

 

The LAUNCH project aims to improve the efficiency and economics of CO2 capture systems to support the growth of a CCUS industry and enable Europe's energy and industrial sectors to decarbonise.  

 

This event is open to all CCUS stakeholders but, in particular, those who will contribute to and/or use LAUNCH datasets, such as industry and project developers. 

 

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8311002099976941581 

 

Please share this invitation with any colleagues, groups or networks who may be interested in joining us. You can also help us promote the event by sharing on social media – Twitter @launchccus and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/30168566/admin/ 

Final outputs from the ACT2 ERANET ALIGN-CCUS project

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The ALIGN-CCUS project, funded through the ERA-NET ACT programme, focused on delivering tools and guidelines to support the quick and cost-effective delivery of large-scale *carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania and the UK.

This international partnership of science and industry has concluded three years of multi-disciplinary research aimed at transforming Europe’s industrial regions into economically robust, low-carbon centres by 2025.

See Press Releases in English, Romanian, German, Dutch and Norwegian, respectively. Read more on the project website here.

Final report from ELEGANCY

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Summary and key messages from ELEGANCY

ELEGANCY is an ERA-Net Cofund ACT project with the aim to help fast-tracking the decarbonization of Europe’s energy system via hydrogen and CCS. This has been achieved by overcoming specific scientific, technological and economic/legal barriers and by undertaking five national case studies adapted to the condi-tions in the partner countries Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. ELEGANCY con-sists of 22 partners from industry and academia/research. More information can be found at the project web-site.

The final report from ELEGANCY is available here.

Key messages

• Europe is dependent on all main available decarbonization options – including hydrogen and CCS – to address the European-parliament declared climate emergency from November 2019 and reduce CO2 emissions be cut by 55% by 2030 and further to net zero by 2050.

• The European parliament has also supported greater action for implementing commercial-scale CCS.

• Hydrogen can be delivered at scale – fast-tracking the 2050 net-zero emission goal.

• Fuel-switching to hydrogen will:

o Curb emissions from distributed sources, such as transport, industrial processes, heating and cooling.

o Quickly decarbonize heavy industry in the EU and so maintain economic activity and jobs.

• Hydrogen produced both from renewable energy sources and from natural gas with CCS will be needed.

• Climate positive hydrogen from biomass with CCS can play an important role in compensating CO2 emissions from hard-to-abate sectors, despite limited sustainable biomass resources.

• CCS is an efficient and safe way to eliminate CO2 emissions.

• The Hydrogen Pathway needs appropriate financial, regulatory and political frameworks.

• Hydrogen should form part of the future European energy system.

• A comprehensive hydrogen infrastructure is required, also using existing assets.

• Open access infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage is required – being able to permanently store CO2 will enable new pathways to climate neutrality.

• Full-scale deployment of hydrogen with CCS should start now.

• Recommended key principles for market re-design are:

o Integrated energy system planning and governance tools.

o Efficient and coordinated permitting procedures.

o Access to the grid and gas grid conversion.

o Operation of transport networks and related infrastructures.