The Clearwater Clean Energy Conference

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The next Clearwater Clean Energy Conference will take place in Florida, USA, 23-27 July 2023.

The Clearwater Clean Energy Conference has drawn attendees from around the globe to Clearwater, Florida, since 1989. This conference provides essential information to power generators who must meet the pressures of energy utilization in the 21st century. This conference has earned a reputation for excellence as one of the premier conferences on energy technologies as it has grown in size and scope since its inception in 1975. Increased demand – coupled with energy security issues and uncertainty in the oil sector – make this conference a must for those involved in all aspects of power generation who must meet the competitive pressures and ongoing environmental concerns. The technical sessions, short courses, and panels offer cutting-edge developments dealing with technical solutions to problems; specific strategies; projects; innovations; industry trends; and/or regulatory compliance will be offered. The program presents an extensive overview of emerging, evolving, and innovative technologies, fuels, and/or equipment in the power generation industry. The conference committee seeks papers from all countries worldwide.

Read more here

The ACT Open Call - Applications can be submitted now

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The ACT Open Call is a funding scheme that can support innovative and international CCUS projects. The ACT Open Call is open for applications throughout 2023 and the funding scheme closes at 31 December 2023.

Funding agencies from Alberta (Canada), Germany, Norway, and Switzerland are participating in the ACT Open Call.

The ambition is to attract CCUS projects operating at high Technology Readiness Level (TRL). Applications must have high industrial involvement and it must be documented that the project can lead to deployment of full scale CCUS projects.

Read more here about how to submit an application.

REX-CO2: all you need to know about re-using wells

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The REX-CO2 project has reached its end date and very interesting results have been delivered. The project has studied re-use of existing wells for CO2 storage.

Existing wells from the oil and gas business present both an opportunity and a challenge for CCUS development. Substantial cost savings can be achieved by re-using existing oil and gas infrastructure for CO2 Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

The REX-CO2 project have delivered results on risk management and potential for re-using wells for CO2 storage. Read more about it in REX-CO2 Final Report.

All deliverables, including a tool for well integrity, can be downloaded from the REX-CO2 web site.

Results and impact from ACT presented at GHGT-16

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A paper presenting results and impacts from ACT was presented at the GHG-16 conference.

Since ACT’s start in 2015 participating organizations have allocated close to € 100 M in funding for 33 international research, development and innovation (RD&I) projects. The added value of the joint international effort is alignment of national RD&I strategies and larger projects with higher impact than what would have been possible with only national projects. The projects funded by ACT have closed knowledge gaps, established well-functioning RD&I collaboration across borders, built relations between academia and industry, and made important contributions to dissemination of key messages beyond the scientific community

The full paper can be downloaded here.

Opportunities and Challenges for the Decarbonization of the Maritime Sector, 14 October 2022, ACT 2 MemCCSea Final Dissemination and Networking Event

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The MemCCSea EU research project and CERTH organize a dissemination and networking event which aims to present the key project results in a wider audience while providing a forum for discussion in the general frame of shipping industry decarbonization. Read more here and here

News from the ACT4 Call

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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.

Possibilities for funding projects within the CCUS domain and Hydrogen & Renewable fuels

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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

CCUS Event, 8-10 June, Rotterdam, Presentations

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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

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