E.ON and Siemens to start carbon capture and storage power plant's pilot project in summer 2009
Foto: E.ON and Siemens to start carbon capture and storage power plant's pilot project in summer 2009
German energy and engineering giants E.ON and Siemens have announced plans to build a pilot carbon capture and storage power plant near the city of Hanau, says "Platts".
German energy and engineering giants E.ON and Siemens have announced plans to build a pilot carbon capture and storage power plant near the city of Hanau.
A legal framework for the testing and future commercial use of CCS technology in Germany has been agreed upon by the German economy and environment ministries. The companies stated that "a lab-proven process is to be employed under real operating conditions at the power plant's hard-coal-fired Staudinger Unit 5" and that "the pilot plant is scheduled to begin operations in the summer of 2009."
The companies cited CCS technology as vital to Germany's power supply security, since "it will not be possible to meet the rapidly growing power demand without using fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas" so that "the challenge is to attain a significant reduction of the CO2 emissions associated with the combustion of fossil fuels."
In this context, "CO2 capture and storage technologies will be of decisive importance" and "they have to be tested for deployment in large plants, developed further and brought to market readiness." The companies are planning to run the pilot plant on the site of the Staudinger power plant until the end of 2010.
E.ON's main German competitors RWE and Vattenfall Europe are also investing into CCS power technology. Vattenfall is already operating a pilot
CCS plant in the German state of Brandenburg.
A legal framework for the testing and future commercial use of CCS technology in Germany has been agreed upon by the German economy and environment ministries. The companies stated that "a lab-proven process is to be employed under real operating conditions at the power plant's hard-coal-fired Staudinger Unit 5" and that "the pilot plant is scheduled to begin operations in the summer of 2009."
The companies cited CCS technology as vital to Germany's power supply security, since "it will not be possible to meet the rapidly growing power demand without using fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas" so that "the challenge is to attain a significant reduction of the CO2 emissions associated with the combustion of fossil fuels."
In this context, "CO2 capture and storage technologies will be of decisive importance" and "they have to be tested for deployment in large plants, developed further and brought to market readiness." The companies are planning to run the pilot plant on the site of the Staudinger power plant until the end of 2010.
E.ON's main German competitors RWE and Vattenfall Europe are also investing into CCS power technology. Vattenfall is already operating a pilot
CCS plant in the German state of Brandenburg.