World Energy Resources | 2016

WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL | CARBON CAPTURE & STO RAGE
KEY FINDINGS
1. CCS is an essential element of any future low carbon energy and industrial future.
2. Significant experience exists across the CCS chain:
- Capture: Especially industrial
- Transportation: After separation and compression usually via pipelines
- Storage: Operating experience in injection and risk management
3. The large-scale projects in operation around the world demonstrate the viability of CCS
technology.
4. Carbon capture technologies can be applied to all types of new coal and gas-based
power plants.
5. The exclusion of CCS as a technology option in the electricity sector alone would
increase mitigation costs by a very considerable margin.
6. Strong policy is essential for speed of implementation.
7. Policy is in fact the main issue, not technology.
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