Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS)

CCS has increasingly received attention as an important greenhouse gas abatement technology. The technology may allow economies world-wide to phase out fossil fuels gradually while capturing CO2 emissions. Although a lower energy consumption and renewable energy technologies are fundamental to a sustainable long term energy supply, CCS plays a very important role in virtually all recent climate change mitigation scenarios.

ECN Policy Studies has a large record on a variety of aspects of CO2 capture and storage, including:

• CCS in the mitigation portfolio
• Regulation and safety of CCS
• Public perception of CCS
• Incentives for CCS
• CO2 infrastructures
• CCS and biomass
• CCS in the EU power market
• CCS in global climate negotiations

Other ECN units studying CCS technology are:

• Hydrogen and Clean Fossil Fuels, focussing mostly on precombustion technologies for capturing CO2
• Biomass, Coal & Environmental Research, with combustion of coal and biomass as a strategic topic.