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Network TechnologyZEP2021-12-22T12:43:03+00:00
  • Summary

  • Co-chairs

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  • Upcoming meetings

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  • Temporary Working Groups

  • Summary

Network Technology encompasses an assortment of working groups that focus on the technological challenges, opportunities, risks and costs associated with CCS and CCU. This includes, but is not limited to, capture, transport, storage and utilisation and ranges to topics such as hydrogen production, clean flexible power generation, and carbon dioxide removals. A key part of the work of the Network includes the delivery of technical reports and executive summaries that are later disseminated with relevant policymakers at EU and national level. The Network meets every four months to assess its ongoing work programme and working group activities.

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Filip Neele (TNO Energy)

Arthur Heberle (Mitsubishi Power Europe GmbH)

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Per-Olof Granström

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ZEP report: The crucial role of low-carbon hydrogen production to achieve Europe’s climate ambition: A technical assessment

ZEP report: Europe needs robust accounting for Carbon Dioxide Removal

ZEP report: A Trans-European CO2 Transportation Infrastructure for CCUS: Opportunities & Challenges

ZEP report: Europe needs a definition of Carbon Dioxide Removal

ZEP report: A method to calculate the positive effects of CCS and CCU on climate change

ZEP report: CO2 Storage Safety in the North Sea: Implications of the CO2 Storage Directive

ZEP Policy Brief on IEAGHG Capture Rates Study Final

ZEP Future CCS Technologies report

ZEP Fast Track Transport and Storage report

ZEP Clean Hydrogen report

ZEP Role of CCUS in below 2c report

  • Temporary Working Groups

  • Temporary Working Group on the Directive on the geological storage of CO2
  • Temporary Working Group on CCS for Clean Flexible Power Generation
  • Temporary Working Group Carbon Dioxide Removal
  • Temporary Working Group Hydrogen
  • Temporary Working Group Collaboration across the CCS chain – workstream 1, 2 and 3
  • Temporary Working Group CCU and Sink Factor Methodology

Temporary Working Group on the Directive on the geological storage of CO2 (CCS Directive)

This working group on the Directive on the geological storage of CO2 sets out to look into how the Directive applies to saline aquifers and depleted fields, going through the different items in the Directive that may cause concern. While ZEP’s standpoint is that the Directive itself should not be opened for a revision, the group aims to propose suggestions to the guidance documents and to illustrate how to go forward with the permitting process for CO2 storage in saline aquifers.

Temporary Working Group Carbon Dioxide Removal

The working group on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) provides an expert opinion on the role of carbon dioxide removals, highlighting the potential technologies which can contribute to going carbon negative. The group’s expertise lies in technological solutions for CDR, most of which are enabled by CCS or CCU.

Temporary Working Group on CCS for Clean Flexible Power Generation

This working group sets out to describe what role CCS can play in an integrated energy system, where the increasing use of renewable energy sources will require flexible power generation – even more so in the coming years and decades. The final report will include ‘real life’ projects from Europe.

Temporary Working Group Collaboration across the CCS chain – workstream 1, 2 and 3

This working group has two parallel objectives that benefit the Norwegian full chain CCS project, the Rotterdam Platform, and the two ERA-NET ACT projects, ELEGANCY and ALIGN-CCUS, with their case studies. Its first objective is to understand and estimate the likelihood and impact of a range of events that are specific to CO2 storage operations. The second objective is to provide industry and expert support to the two ERA-NET ACT projects ELEGANCY and ALIGN-CCUS. Both objectives will lead to outlining the options available for sharing or allocating risk and liability in different organisational models for CCS networks comprising multiple sources and multiple storage sites. It is expected that in due course national CCS infrastructure will be connected across borders; commercial models used in early CCS projects should therefore not impede later expansion and interconnection.

Temporary Working Group CCU and Sink Factor Methodology

The ZEP report Climate solutions for EU industry: interaction between electrification, CO2 use and CO2 storage, published in September 2017, introduced the Indicative Sink Factor (ISF) as a way of assessing the extent to which different CCU and CCS processes can contribute towards climate change.

The TWG brings together published research and work currently being undertaken by DG CLIMA. A key factor in developing the Indicative Sink Factor is the assessment and definition of the boundary conditions used in LCA. This will provide the fundamental basis from which different CCS and CCU processes may be compared.

In July 2020, the working group published a report A method to calculate the positive effects of CCS and CCU on climate change, which introduces three fundamental characteristics for the classification of technologies for climate change abatement of CCU and CCS projects: mitigation effect, net energy consumption, and implementation period.

Temporary Working Group Hydrogen

The Hydrogen working group provides an expert opinion on the technologies and policies required to ensure that low-carbon hydrogen is accurately represented and considered as a viable technology in the decarbonised future of Europe’s energy, energy-intensive industry, heating, and transport sectors.

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