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On the 23rd March, ZEP published its 5th annual Market Economics report “CCS and Europe’s Contribution to the Paris Agreement – Modelling least-cost CO2 reduction pathways”. The report estimates that the value of CCS to the EU could exceed €1 trillion between now and 2050, and that CCS could be worth more than €50 billion each year thereafter.

ZEP has published a report entitled “Future CCS Technologies”. The report has been developed following COP21 and the aim of limiting the global temperature increase to well below 2°C. The report analyses emerging CCS technologies and concludes that “CCS is ready for immediate implementation, thus, it is essential that current first-generation technologies are tested inContinue reading “ZEP publishes Future CCS Technologies report”

An important opportunity has arisen to utilise unspent NER300 funds and deliver tangible progress on CCS in Europe. Used intelligently, these funds could make a major contribution towards achieving the targets recently agreed for CCUS by the SET Plan Steering Group. This brief from November 2016 outlines the early recommendations of the Platform for howContinue reading “Reuse of unspent NER300 funds”

In April 2016 the Zero Emission Platform (ZEP) published a report on Carbon Capture and Use/Utilization (CCU) which highlighted the potentially important economic and climate impacts that different types of CCU could have in Europe. The report concluded that whilst CCU could have a key role in terms of unlocking the business case for CO2 captureContinue reading “CCU in the EU ETS: ZEP Policy Briefing, November 2016”

ZEP Network Technology produced a report on Carbon Capture and Use/Utilization (CCU) in April 2016, which highlights the potentially important economic and climate impacts that different types of CCU could have in Europe. The report concludes that whilst CCU could have a key role in terms of unlocking the business case for CO2 capture and managingContinue reading “CCU – Carbon Capture and Utilisation”

Following the publication of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Transport and Energy (ITRE) Draft Opinion on ‘Cost effective emissions reductions and low carbon investments’, the Zero Emission Platform (ZEP) would like to draw MEPs attention to the following: ZEP warmly welcomed the proposals put forward by the Commission in its 2015 Summer Package toContinue reading “ZEP response to the ITRE Draft Opinion on Cost effective emissions reductions and low carbon investments”

The European Commission proposed in its Summer Package 2015 that the existing NER300 programme should be replaced by an Innovation Fund under Phase IV of the EU Emissions Trading System, made up of an initial endowment of 450 million allowances. This Fund, supplemented by a Modernisation Fund for eligible Member States, would support the deploymentContinue reading “ZEP input to the design of funding modalities”

A low carbon EU should be inclusive with a comprehensive collection network enabling emitters large and small to connect to CO2 storage and create value in the Net Zero economy. Developing such CO2 gathering networks & clusters linked to CO2 storage hubs via trunk pipeline networks and shipping routes is the lowest cost route to creating low carbonContinue reading “Identifying and Developing European CCS Hubs”

A low carbon EU should be inclusive with a comprehensive collection network enabling emitters large and small to connect to CO2 storage and create value in the Net Zero economy. Developing such CO2 gathering networks & clusters linked to CO2 storage hubs via trunk pipeline networks and shipping routes is the lowest cost route to creating low carbonContinue reading “Identifying and Developing European CCS Hubs”

On 5 April 2016, the SET Plan Steering group published its paper on “Renewing efforts to demonstrate carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the EU and developing sustainable solutions for carbon capture and usage (CCU)”. Also known as Issues Paper No. 9 (find this document below). ZEP published a response to this Issues Paper No.9,Continue reading “ZEP’s reply to issues paper No. 9 of SET plan Steering group”