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2CHAPTERWhat happenedin Rotterdam?The partners of the RCI have the following main activities:• Achieving visibility by a well-organised advocacy.• Enhancing cooperation with industry.• Developing a business case for CO 2transport and storage.• Developing a strategy for (long-term) deployment of CCS.Advocacy – In the summer of 2007 the CCS report was published and themain executives of the RCI determined the need for improving the visibilityof the CCS activities of RCI and the need for advocacy to solve the bottlenecksmentioned in the report. RCI defined an advocacy strategy for CCSdirect after that summer. It consisted of a stakeholder analysis and adecision to work together with the other region in the Netherlands that isfocussing on CCS (Northern Netherlands, a cooperation of the three NorthernDutch provinces) and it defined a sequence of advocacy activities. For theactivities in the Netherlands this resulted in the following three main events:• RCI and Northern Netherlands send a joint letter to the Ministers ofEconomic Affairs and Environment (October 2008).• RCI and Northern Netherlands have a meeting with the Ministers ofEconomic Affairs and Environment (April 2008)• RCI and Northern Netherlands become members of the Dutch CCSTaskforce (see before).On the European level, the advocacy achieved a real boost after the announcementof the European Climate Action package (January 2008). MrLubbers and Mr Opstelten contact the European commissioners of Energy(Piebalgs) and Environment (Dimas). A visit by European CommissionerPiebalgs to Rotterdam takes place in January 2008.Content of the advocacy is twofold: first to show that Rotterdam is wellsuitedto start CCS deployment and, second, that the European and nationalauthorities have to provide more clarity on the financing of demonstrationprojects, that they should propagate a clear and consistent message on CCSand that they need to speed up to fix the legislation in such a way that itsupport the application of CCS.Cooperation with industry – In the summer of 2008 the CCS BusinessPlatform is founded (in 2011 about 20 companies participate). The participatingcompanies declare to endorse the RCI objectives and are willing tocooperate in accelerating the introduction of CCS. The main function of theplatform is to share knowledge and experience between industry and RCIpartners.Business case infrastructure – RCI partners, led by the Port Authority,started exploring and defining a business case for the infrastructure for CO 2transport. The existing pipelines of OCAP were seen as the backbone or thestarting point. A couple of growth scenarios were developed and at thebeginning of 2008 a real study was started to define a business case for thefirst phase (see RCI CCS Report 2): which financial model could work for theexploitation of this transport network and under what condition could thatnetwork function with a positive turn-over. Wintershall came to the RCI withan offer: their nearly depleted gas reservoir in the Q8a field could be possiblybe used for CO 2storage. The result was that Wintershall also became14
2CHAPTERWhat happenedin Rotterdam?involved in the business case. The Q8a field could fit neatly into one of thegrowth scenarios. In 2007 the Port authority, OCAP, Wintershall andRotterdam signed a cooperation agreement to develop the business case. Inthis period Linde and TNO conducted a feasibility study for storage of CO 2inthe reservoir Q8a. The consortium delivered a confidential report on thebusiness case; the main results were fit in the RCI CCS report 2.Strategy – After the summer of 2007, the RCI elaborates a strategy foraccelerating the deployment of CCS. In that strategy the organisation of theCCS Network plays a large role as does the long-term incentives for CCSdeployment. Especially on these issues, the cooperation with the ClintonClimate Initiative (CCI) becomes more intense. Mr Magaziner (director of CCI)visits Rotterdam twice to have extensive discussions with RCI partners. Theformal collaboration between the RCI and CCI is signed in August 2008. CCIand RCI together have increased their understanding, especially on the ‘insand outs’ of organising a hub approach. The RCI team uses this experiencein the development of the 2008 report. This report combines the RCIanalysis with an external assessment by Dutch experts. The report containsan assessment of local data on industry and an own infrastructure businesscase. This second CCS report is published in July 2008 and presented by MrLubbers to the national ministers. The message of the report is thatRotterdam is ready for applying CCS. This requires, however, a long-termand stable policy that will offer the necessary confidence to companies tomake such large investment decisions.2.3. Period 3: Getting Industry prepared andcommitted (2008-2009)This (short) period is characterised by (i) very intense cooperation withindustry, (ii) achieving more confidence on the infrastructure business caseand (iii) advocacy for European funding and national co funding of CCSprojects.Cooperation with industry – At the end of 2008 RCI started to work on anintegrated approach for cooperation with the emitters. RCI developed thepossibility of a Letter of Cooperation (LoC). In such a LoC companies orconsortia promise to do a prefeasibility study and RCI promises to supply anindependent expert to validate the studies. Early in 2009 RCI signed a LoCwith nine companies including E.ON and Electrabel. E.ON and Electrabelexplicitly decided in this period to look at a joint demonstration project. Afew months later they submit a joint proposal for the European EEPRsubsidy scheme: the ROAD project. All nine companies carried out thepre-feasibility study in Q1 of 2009. Foster Wheeler validated these businesscases for CO 2capture, whereas Climate Change Capital has analysed theplans from the role of financial advisor and made a full chain analysis forthe Rotterdam CCS network.Infrastructure – RCI led by the Port Authority developed an improvedversion of the transport business case with Gasunie, OCAP, EBN, Wintershall,Taqa, Stedin and Gaz de France. In May 2009 the second report on thebusiness case for the infrastructure appears. This is again a confidentialreport of which the summary is enclosed in the 2009 CCS report. In January15
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