CCUS-ZEN Project

Management information

Title: Zero Emission Network to facilitate CCUS uptake in industrial clusters

Code: https://doi.org/10.3030/101075693

Initial date: 1 de August de 2022

Ending date: 31 de January de 2025

Funding: 1782627 €

E-mail: paula.canteli@igme.es

Project web page: https://www.ccusnetwork.eu

Project description

CCUS ZEN is exploring the potential for accelerating deployment of CCUS in two regions with lower maturity level for CCUS compared to the current development in the North Sea region.

CCUS ZEN has five objectives that aim to build a coherent ecosystem of CCUS actors in Europe through cooperation and knowledge sharing between CCUS stakeholders in three different European regions.

Objective 1
-Map and understand the emission sources
-Identify transport corridors and modalities.
-Assess cost-effective ('bankable') storage capacity in the selected regions
-Define interactions between CCUS hubs-and-clusters, renewables-based integrated energy systems, and/or circular production modes
Objective 2
-Identify and involve relevant stakeholders.
-Analyse their concerns and needs.
Objective 3
-Elaborate detailed plans for the integration of CCUS in hubs and clusters linked to CO2 storage sites via hubs, pipeline networks and shipping routes, with due attention to national and border- crossing permits and regulatory issues
Objective 4
-Perform initial impact assessments and develop local business models for delivery of CO2 capture, transport, utilisation and/or storage.
Objective 5
-Facilitate the exchange of knowledge and know how across CCUS projects.

Targets

Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology is an important tool in reducing climate change. The EU-funded CCUS ZEN project will increase the rollout of CCUS technology in Europe through knowledge-sharing and the development of specific action plans, focusing specifically on the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Sea regions. The project consortium will bring together 15 partners with leading expertise in all aspects of CCUS value chains. CCUS ZEN will select at least eight value chains (four in each region) for detailed study and comparison with successful value chains from the North Sea region. This will result in policy recommendations for CCUS value chain development, including CO2 source mapping, generic technical frameworks and business plan models.

Activities

WP1

Mapping of technical aspects and infrastructure needs

Objectives:

Regional high-level screening of promising CCUS value chains in the two ZEN regions.

Identify technical requirements for CCUS integration and demonstrate how these requirements should be incorporated in the high-level screening of promising CCUS value chains.

WP2

Mapping of non-technical aspects and stakeholder needs

Objectives:

Map non-technical aspects of developing CCUS value chains; identify current and/or potential challenges to CCUS value chains, including social, political, economic, and legal dimensions for both local, regional and cross-border activities; outline opportunities to resolve these challenges.

Engage stakeholders to jointly deepen the understanding of non-technical challenges and opportunities.

Provide a list of non-technical criteria that serve to inform selection of CCUS value chains based on a synthesis of the above mapping.

WP3

CCUS value chain scenarios

Objectives:

Identify the most promising CCUS value chains for the CCUS ZEN regions based on SWOT analysis.

Establish a generic framework for the selection of the most prospective CCUS value chains, based on the high-level screening methodology established in WP1 and integrated with WP2 analyses.

Identify potential PCI and determine key stakeholders

WP4

Development of CCUS value chains and local business models

Objectives:

Overall objective of WP4 is to consolidate the analyses performed in WPs 1-3 for the most promising CCUS value chain in each of the two CCUS ZEN regions, delivering a documentation set that can be disseminated to potential partners, public authorities, and financers, notably:

Business plan, including projections of costs (CAPEX, OPEX), generated revenues and identification of the required funding support

Consolidated technical design description for the entire CCUS value chain and details of key metrics (carbon abatement) for the two selected CCUS value chains

Early project environmental impact identification based on expert workshop (i.e. no site visit)

Project risk assessment

WP5

Knowledge-sharing, communication and dissemination

Objectives:

Disseminate project results to key stakeholders (public, industries, policy makers) to accelerate and deepen project impact.

Facilitate communication and dialogue between project partners, including network partners, and with other relevant EU projects and networks.

Plan the exploitation of the project results by facilitating access to project results, encouraging adoption by other industries and countries, making sure best practices are shared, and key economic benefits (job creation/retention) can be easily understood.

WP6

Project management and administration

Objectives:

The main objective is to organise the work in an efficient, flexible and economic way and to monitor that project results are reached according to the work plan. The specific objectives are:

Administrative and financial management of the project, including reporting to the EU Commission

Day-to-day consortium management