| 5/11/2009 Finland/Germany |
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| Metso and Fortum have joined forces in exploring oxyfuel combustion technology. Oxyfuel combustion is part of a technical concept which enables carbon capture in power and heat generation. The three-year R&D project is partly funded by... |
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| 5/11/2009 France |
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| Alstom Power released preliminary data on a carbon capture demonstration project being conducted at the We Energies facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, in partnership with the Electric Power Research Institute... |
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| 5/11/2009 UK |
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| Energy companies will lobby the government for a get-out clause from the deadline to fully fit carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to new coal plants by 2025 because they are worried it might not work in time... |
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| 5/7/2009 Netherlands |
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| Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, has “a long way to go” before going ahead with a plan to capture and store carbon dioxide below the Dutch town of Barendrecht... |
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| 5/7/2009 UK |
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| E.ON and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have today announced the award of £6.9 million of research funding to four university-led projects investigating carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies... |
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| 5/7/2009 |
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| PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2009 Utilities Global Survey reveals the extent to which the utilities industry views technology innovation as key to the future, with 83% of respondents from utility companies in Europe reporting that they are evaluating CCS projects... |
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| 5/6/2009 EU |
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| MEPs have voted in favour of investing €5 billion in energy projects, broadband internet infrastructure and rural development as part of the EU’s economic recovery plan. The package includes €1.05 billion for Carbon capture and storage(CCS) projects... |
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| 5/5/2009 EU |
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| Billions of Euros of taxpayers’ money is being pumped into the fossil fuel industry, shows new research released today by Friends of the Earth Europe which is calling for all public subsidies to oil and gas companies to be stopped... |
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| 5/5/2009 EU/China |
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| The European Commission is developing plans to fund a large-scale CCS plant in China... |
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| 5/3/2009 UK/ China |
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| Britain will share the benefits of its investment in carbon capture and storage technology with China and other developing countries, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, said today... |
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| 5/2/2009 UK |
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| Scotland is on the cusp of leading the world in a revolution in energy technology that could massively reduce carbon emissions and transform the economy... |
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| 5/1/2009 UK |
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| ScottishPower has outlined a vision for the UK to become a world leader in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), as a detailed study shows that the Central North Sea could store potentially all of Europe’s CO2 emissions well into the next century... |
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| 5/1/2009 UK |
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| Industrial CO2 produced in the UK during the next 200 years can be stored securely beneath the Scottish area of the Northern and Central North Sea, according to a major joint study unveiled today by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond... |
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| 4/29/2009 Germany |
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| Coal is set to remain the source of much of Germany's electricity thanks to cleaner technology that now beckons... |
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| 4/28/2009 UK |
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| The debate on the development of "clean" coal technology needs to accept a key point. Britain is already dependent on coal-fired electricity. Use of coal-fired power stations continued despite the devastation of the mining industry after... |
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| 4/27/2009 China/UK/France/Norway |
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| COACH Spring School on CCS in China was launched on April 20, and was closed on April 26 at Zhejiang University as part of China-EU cooperation on CO2 capture and storage (CCS)... |
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| 4/23/2009 UK |
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| ScottishPower, who are leading the way on the reduction of CO2 emissions through carbon capture and storage, welcomed the Government’s Budget 2009 announcement on developing “a new and more ambitious” CCS policy... |
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| 4/23/2009 UK |
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| A major overhaul of the UK's coal-power ambitions was revealed today, with the government pledging not to allow any new coal plants unless a proportion of their carbon dioxide emissions are buried underground... |
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| 4/23/2009 UK |
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| The UK has become the first country in the world to make CCS compulsory for new coal-fired power plants, but it still lags behind its competitors in building demonstration plants... |
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| 4/22/2009 UK |
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| The U.K. will pay for two to four projects that test technology to capture carbon dioxide from power plants and pipe the greenhouse gas underground for storage... |
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