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ZEP has published a new report “Climate solutions for EU industry: interaction between electrification, CO2 use and CO2 storage”

The European Commission in its revision of the EU Renewable Energy Directive (REDII) has proposed a 2030 target for ‘low-emission and renewable fuels’. ZEP has published this briefing paper from May 2017, setting out the position of the Platform on how Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) should be treated within the Renewable Energy Directive.

The European Zero Emission Technology and Innovation Platform (ZEP) welcomes the proposal from the European Commission in November 2016 to establish a Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union (2016/0375 (COD)). ZEP believes the Regulation could deliver significant EU added value in achieving EU energy and climate goals, including towards meeting the objectives ofContinue reading “ZEP Policy Brief – Energy Union Governance”

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”