The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) selected a consortium led by Aberdeen-based consultancy Pale Blue Dot Energy to deliver a project that will identify the next phase of sites deep under the seabed in UK waters to store CO2 emissions from coal and gas power stations and heavy industry plants.
The 12-month project is being delivered by the ETI and funded with up to US$3.8 million (£2.5 million) from the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
“This project will initially pick a 'Top 20' of stores from the CO2Stored atlas and then from these select a final five which will be analyzed in much greater detail to demonstrate that they are suitable, secure and viable for storing large amounts of CO2,” said Den Gammer, the ETI’s CCS strategy manager.
It will progress the appraisal of selected storage sites towards readiness for final investment decisions, de-risking these stores for potential future storage developers.
The project will make use of CO2 Stored, the UK’s CO2 storage atlas, which was created from the ETI’s UK Storage Appraisal Project and is now made publically available and being developed by The Crown Estate and the British Geological Survey. The results will be shared with the CCS community at the end of the project.
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