Scope for future CO{sub 2} emission reductions from electricity generation through the deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies

Conference · Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2006

OSTI ID:20712337

Gibbins, Jon; Haszeldine, Stuart; Holloway, Sam; Pearce, Jonathan; Oakey, John; Shackley, Simon; Turley, Carol ^[1]

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1. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)

Ongoing work on the potential for carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) from fossil fuel power stations in the UK suggests that this technology may be capable of supplying significant amounts of low-emission electricity within one or two decades. Renewable generation is also planned to increase over similar time scales and there is the additional possibility of nuclear replacements being built. If the political justification for significant UK CO{sub 2} emission reductions emerges from global post-Kyoto negotiations, it is therefore possible that large ({approximately}45%) reductions in CO{sub 2} emissions from UK electricity generation could be achieved by as early as 2020. Both the technical and the political aspects are, however, changing rapidly, with perhaps the conclusion of the post-Kyoto negotiations in 2007 as the first clear pointer for the future. CCS technologies also have considerable potential for future emission reductions world wide, especially in regions where large numbers of new fossil fuel power plants are being built within {approximately}500 km of sedimentary basins. 10 refs., 2 figs., 2 tabs.

• OSTI ID: 20712337
• Resource Relation: Conference: International symposium on stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations: avoiding dangerous climate change, Exeter (United Kingdom), 1-3 Feb 2005; Related Information: In: Avoiding dangerous climate change, by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber; Wolfgang Cramer; Nebojsa Nakicenovic; Tom Wigley; Gary Yohe (eds.), 406; 16.7 MB pages.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
CARBON DIOXIDE
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
POWER GENERATION
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS
UNITED KINGDOM
COAL
FUEL SUBSTITUTION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY POLICY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
NUCLEAR POWER
NATURAL GAS
AQUIFERS
CAPTURE