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CCS Development in Southeast Asia
25th May 2020
Organisation(s): Global CCS Institute
Topic(s): Carbon capture and storage (CCS), Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), Southeast Asia
In recent decades, Southeast Asia has been one of fastest growing regions of the world. Its energy demand has grown more than 80 per cent from 2000. Oil, coal and gas provides more than 70 per cent of its energy. With the region's power generation fuel mix and rapidly growing natural gas production, alongside established and emerging emissions reduction committments, CCS has a unique and critical role to play.
In this paper, Institute’s Senior Client Engagement Lead Dr Tony Zhang, discusses why Southeast Asia needs CCS, the specific drivers behind the opportunities for accelerated deployment and the critical role of CCS hub and cluster networks in reducing the region's emissions.
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The US Section 45Q Tax Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration: An Update
16th April 2020
Organisation(s): Global CCS Institute
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), Policy law and regulation
In February 2020, the US Internal Revenue Service published Notice 2020-12 and Revenue Procedure 2020-12, which include updated guidance regarding the Section 45Q Credit. Among other areas, this notice focuses on the eligibility requirements for the date of construction commencement and partnership structures.
Our Washington, DC-based Senior Advisor for Advocacy and Communications, Lee Beck, has prepared an Issue Brief on the latest developments.
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Content and material featured within this section of our website includes reports and research published by third parties. The content and material may include opinions and recommendations of third parties that do not reflect those held by the Global CCS Institute.
Policy priorities to incentivise large scale deployment of CCS
2nd April 2019
Topic(s): Business cases, Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), Policy law and regulation
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is essential to achieving climate change mitigation targets. It is the only feasible technology that can deliver deep emissions reductions in many industrial processes that are vital to the global economy, such as steel, cement and chemicals production. In combination with bioenergy used for power generation or biofuel production, it provides one of the few technologies that can deliver negative emissions at scale; unambiguously required to limit temperature rises to meet the Paris climate targets.
While the critical role of CCS has been demonstrated in many reports, the policies in place today are insufficient to ensure CCS deployment scales up at the rate required. This paper seeks to address the current policy gap by describing priorities for policymakers to support the transition from current to future rates of deployment of CCS.
The Institute's report explores how to stimulate investment in CCS. The paper also identifies concrete policy actions and reviews the progress achieved until now by identifying the policies and commercial conditions that have enabled investment in the 18 large-scale CCS facilities currently in operation, and the additional five that are under construction.
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The content within the Global CCS Institute Publications, Reports and Research Library is provided for information purposes only. We make every effort and take reasonable care to keep the content of this section up-to-date and error-free. However, we make no claim as to its accuracy, currency or reliability.
Content and material featured within this section of our website includes reports and research published by third parties. The content and material may include opinions and recommendations of third parties that do not reflect those held by the Global CCS Institute.
Legal & Regulatory Indicator (CCS-LRI)
16th October 2018
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), Policy law and regulation
Law and regulation remains a critical element of a government’s policy response to support the development and deployment of CCS. Robust legal and regulatory frameworks provide certainty for businesses eager to engage in innovation, and the deployment of CCS.
The CCS-LRI offers a detailed examination and assessment of national legal and regulatory frameworks in 55 countries and examines a range of legal and regulatory factors likely to be critical for the regulation of the technology.
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Content and material featured within this section of our website includes reports and research published by third parties. The content and material may include opinions and recommendations of third parties that do not reflect those held by the Global CCS Institute.
The Carbon Capture and Storage Readiness Index 2018: Is the world ready for carbon capture and storage?
16th October 2018
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), Economics, Policy law and regulation
Collectively, our three Indicator Reports 2018 form a further, criteria-based assessment known as the CCS Readiness Index, or CCS-RI. The 2018 CCS-RI examines over 50 countries using 70 discrete criteria and enables a comparative assessment of countries globally.
Clear from the 2018 assessment is that greater effort is required to deploy CCS at the scale necessary to meet climate change mitigation ambitions.
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Content and material featured within this section of our website includes reports and research published by third parties. The content and material may include opinions and recommendations of third parties that do not reflect those held by the Global CCS Institute.
CCS Storage Indicator (CCS-SI)
16th October 2018
Topic(s): Capacity development, Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), Policy law and regulation
The availability of storage resources is the ultimate pre-requisite for CCS deployment. For global CCS deployment, each country needs to know where, and how much, CO2 can be stored. Each nation needs to characterise, explore and appraise a national portfolio of accessible, commercially-viable storage sites ready for CCS Facilities.
The CCS-SI tracks the development of storage resources for 80 countries. The 2018 scores confirm an overall improvement since the 2015 CCS-SI with twelve nations having mature, or near-mature, storage resources to enable wide-scale CCS.
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Content and material featured within this section of our website includes reports and research published by third parties. The content and material may include opinions and recommendations of third parties that do not reflect those held by the Global CCS Institute.
CCS Policy Indicator (CCS-PI)
16th October 2018
Organisation(s): Global CCS Institute
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), Economics, Policy law and regulation, Project financing
Government policy, given effect through law and the allocation of public resources, is critical to achieving climate targets. It plays a material role in determining the return on investment for any climate mitigation technology making confidence in government policy a pre-requisite of investment.
The CCS-PI tracks the development of government policy to accelerate the deployment of CCS as an essential climate mitigation technology in over 100 countries.
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2016年全球碳捕集与封存现状报告 着重介绍了一些2016年实现的重大里程碑式成果，和在2016年已经进入运行或者很快就要开始运行的重要项目。2016年全球碳捕集与封存现状报告 由5个独立的报告组成，包括一份可以对外公开的报告摘要和研究院会员专享的系列报告。
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Global CCS Institute CCS readiness Index
17th November 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is critical for meeting international climate change targets, and therefore deployment must be both rapid and global. To date, deployment has been limited to only a few countries and industries, with several factors slowing further progress.
The Global CCS Institute (Institute) has developed a ‘CCS Readiness Index’ (CCS Index) which quantifies these factors, based on assessment criteria across four indicators — inherent interest, policy, legal and regulatory (legal) and storage — which reflect major barriers or enablers for the deployment of CCS.
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Content and material featured within this section of our website includes reports and research published by third parties. The content and material may include opinions and recommendations of third parties that do not reflect those held by the Global CCS Institute.
Proceedings from the 2016 CCS Costs Workshop
14th July 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
The fourth meeting of the CCS Cost Workshop (also known as the Expert Group on CCS Costs) was held on March 23‐24, 2016 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.This function is now designated as the CCS Cost Network under the auspices of the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Programme.
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Introduction to industrial carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a process used to capture carbon dioxide gas (CO2) that is produced by power stations or other types of industrial facilities. To keep CO2 out of the atmosphere, it is captured from the power plant or industry, transported, and securely stored underground, permanently.
One of the major benefits of CCS as an emissions reduction technology is that it can be applied to different types of CO2 emissions sources, particularly those with very large volumes of emissions, such as power plants and some industrial facilities.
Importantly, CCS is a proven technology that is already in operation around the world, in a number of industrial sectors. These industrial applications are the main focus of this report, and some of them date back as far as the 1970s and 1980s.
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Global storage portfolio: a global assessment of the geological CO2 storage resource potential
1st March 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage, Engineering and project delivery
The primary purpose of the Institute’s Global Storage Portfolio is to collate and summarise published regional assessments of key nations. The Portfolio also summarises key data on a nation’s readiness to host a commercial, large-scale project. For this reason, only proven storage scenarios including deep saline formations (DSF), depleted/depleting oil and gas fields (DGOF) and enhanced oil recovery using CO2 (CO2-EOR) are considered. The analysis has found that:
- Substantial storage resources are present in most key regions of the world.
- Reliable methodologies to determine and classify regional storage resources are available and have been widely applied, although there is no formally recognised international standard.
- The level of resource assessment undertaken and the availability of characterisation data is highly variable across regions.
- The level of detail a regional resource assessment has progressed as well as the policy, legal and regulatory frameworks are key criteria that can be used to gauge the readiness of any given nation to deploy a CCS project.
The storage resources are grouped into five regions:
- Asia-Pacific (fourteen countries)
- Americas (five countries)
- Middle East (three countries)
- Europe and Russia (EU plus three countries)
- Africa (four countries).
The resulting portfolio will enable the reader to rapidly establish a snapshot of a country’s storage resource and potential to deploy a large-scale project.
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