The GHGT-16, the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference, took place on 24–27 October 2022 in Lyon, France and ACT was well represented. Read more here
ACT received 16 applications to the ACT4 call, which closed on 12 September 2022. There is a good contribution of participation by ACT funding countries/regions: Alberta province of Canada, Germany, India, Norway, and the USA.
The Projects were encouraged to target issues defined by:
• The SET-Plan CCS and CCU Implementation Plan
• Mission Innovation Research Priorities
The projects ask in total for € 29 M funding from ACT, which is twice the available budget. The applications will be evaluated and ranked according to procedures described in the ACT4 call text. A common decision on funding will be made by the involved funding agencies and the decision will be communicated to the applicants by the Call Secretariat at the Research Council of Norway in December 2022. The successful projects are foreseen to start early 2023.
ACT funders and collaborators have new opportunities for funding in the domain of CCU and Hydrogen and renewable fuels. The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) is a multilateral and strategic partnership of national and regional research, development and innovation (RDI) programmes in European Member States and Associated Countries aiming to boost and accelerate the energy transition and to support the implementation of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan). It will launch its first call on 13 September 2022. Read more here and here
A high level conference and CCUS event, co-organised by CATO, the Norwegian Embassy in The Hague, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and ACT, was held in Rotterdam. One day was dedicated to the ACT2 and ACT3 projects, when they presented their progress. Please find project presentations and presentations on the “Development, Challenges and Opportunities for CCUS in Europe’s fight against climate change” here and a brief report of the meeting here
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
International team nets €3.4M to advance ship-based carbon capture for maritime sector- EverLong ACT3 funded project to conduct technology trials on board two LNG-fuelled ships along with supporting studies. Read more on the just issued press release and project website.
Based on the success of the previous three ACT calls (in 2016, 2018 and 2020) we have the pleasure to announce that we will launch the ACT4 call in May 2022. Read more here
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 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
In June 2021, the decision for funding new ACT projects from the call launched in 2020, was taken. Following a rigorous two-stage evaluation process, during which projects were ranked by an independent international expert panel, the ACT Board decided to fund thirteen(13) of the top ranked projects. Read more here
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
The ACT Consortium received 36 full eligible proposals by 15 March 2021. The proposals have been evaluated and ranked by external, independent CCUS experts. Read more here
With only 3 days to go, the CEM12 / MI-6, hosted by the Ministry of Energy of Chile, is promising to be an inspiring week (31 May-June 6 2021). Longship and ACT will participate in a side event. See more information here. See promo video of the side event on 1 June 2021 here and the video of the event here
The CSLF Technology Roadmap 2021 was launched in conjunction with the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum Technical Group (CSLF TG) web conference on 28 April 2021. 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
