By Paul Homewood
http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/01/top-utilities-pull-out-of-eu-ccs-project.html
PEI report:
A decision by four of Europe’s largest utilities to opt out of a decade long carbon capture and storage (CCS) project is “a matter of great concern” according to a leading academic and advocate of the technology.
Germany‘s RWE, France’s Electricite de France , Sweden’s Vattenfall AB and Spain’s Gas Natural Fenosa have announced their withdrawal from the Zero Emission Platform (ZEP), which advises the European Commission about CCS technologies.
They say the technology behind the project, aimed at tackling global warming, is too expensive, according to a letter obtained by Reuters. Dr David Reiner told Power Engineering Internationalthat the announcement shows that for certain countries, support for CCS is “more rhetorical than real”.
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