This 5-page report outline focuses on how to kick-start a European clean hydrogen economy. A more extensive report on this subject is planned for autumn 2020. This paper aims at providing input on how the European Commission can enable a European clean hydrogen market with clean hydrogen from natural gas with CCS.
The extended version of the report will expand on the technological matters of clean hydrogen production and hydrogen infrastructure, and will indicate what the necessary policy framework could look like.
CO2 underground storage is a safe and mature technology ready for broad implementation, as evidenced by over twenty years of successful storage offshore in Norway, combined with more recent onshore storage in Canada and the USA. In Europe, CCS benefits from a clear set of regulations and requirements under the 2009 EU CO2 Storage Directive that ensure the identification of appropriate storage sites and the safety of subsequent operation.
CO2 underground storage is a safe and mature technology ready for broad implementation, as evidenced by over twenty years of successful storage offshore in Norway, combined with more recent onshore storage in Canada and the USA. In Europe, CCS benefits from a clear set of regulations and requirements under the 2009 EU CO2 Storage Directive that ensure the identification of appropriate storage sites and the safety of subsequent operation.
ZEP has published a new report “Fast Track CO2 Transport and Storage for Europe”. The report concludes that “An integrated CO2 transport and permanent storage network, as sophisticated as that of the existing natural gas industry, will be required in Europe by 2050 in order to deeply decarbonise industry, produce low-cost hydrogen, and to limit CO2 released toContinue reading “ZEP Launches Fast Track CO2 Transport and Storage for Europe report”
ZEP has published a new report “Commercial Scale Feasibility of Clean Hydrogen”. The report investigates the potential of decarbonised hydrogen produced through CCS on natural gas (“clean”/”low GHG emissions” hydrogen) and concludes that hydrogen has the potential to decarbonise a number of different industries and play a key role in Europe’s energy transition. Clean hydrogenContinue reading “ZEP Launches Commercial Scale Feasibility of Clean Hydrogen report”
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”
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”
