The "Carbon, Capture and Storage – 2020" round table gathered international participants
The Ministry for Economy, Trade and the Business Environment together with WEC-RNC organised the International Round table Carbon, Capture and Storage – 2020, in Bucharest, on the 12th May 2011, in partnership with the GETICA CCS Demotproject promotors Turceni Energy Complex, SNTGN TRANSGAZ, SNGN ROMGAZ and the Technical Consortium members.
The themes approached by an important international body – Maurice Hanegraaf, Global CCS Institute and Justine Garrett, International Energy Agency focused on important aspects regarding the GETICA CCS Demo Project at global and European level, the legal and institutional CCS framework, other CCS demo projects candidates for the NER 300 European competition
The event’s objective was:
- Overview on the CCS technology at European and Global level stage
- Presentation of the CO2 carbon capture and storage technology used by important players / companies in the field
- Overview on CCS technology implementation technical and non-technical risk management
- Transpossing and implementing in Romania the EU CCS Directive
- GETICA CCS Demo Project development stage
Co2 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) represents one of the climate change technologies which contribute to outcome climate change consequences next to Renewable Energy Sources (RES).
Developping and putting into function the CCS demo project in Romania will bring significant contribution:
- For Romania to meet its national CO2 emissions mitigation targets
- For buying the necessary time period for efficient and large scale Renewable Energy Sources implementation
- Increasing geopolitical security by consumption of coal versus gas supplier dependency
- Maintaining operational the power plants running on local lignite, including the mining exploitations sites
- Extension of the CCS technology for all the power producers in the region (over 4,000 MW) on local lignite and other energy intensive industries (metallurgical, chemical etc.)
- New jobs created all along the project stages – design, EPC, operation and monitoring for the Capture / Transport / Storage facilities
- Capacity building at institutional level
- New educational programs for colleges and universities
- Training programs for all future operators of the CO2 capture plant, transport pipelines network and storage sites monitoring
GETICA CCS has the possibility if it will be the winner project in the NER 300 competition to obtain a grant from the European Commission through the European Bank for Investments, representing 50% from the relevant cost,
Along with the Ministry for Economy, Trade and Business Environment, at the event attended also ISPE and other representatives from important international companies involved in implementing the GETICA CCS project - Alstom Carbon Capture, Schlumberger Carbon Services and Oxand together with governmental authority representatives, european and international banks with large activity in Romania, the business environment, economic operators, R&D institutions, NGO’s.
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