25-06-2009 EU Kommissionen anbefaler overførsel af milliardbeløb til CCS i Kina

I en Communication til EU Parlamentet og Ministerrådet skriver EU Kommissionen bl.a.:

"The Commission intends to support cooperation with emerging and developing countries on
CCS and other cleaner coal technologies through its Environment and Natural Resources
Thematic Programme. Under a new activity called "Cooperation on clean coal technology
(CCT) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) with coal-dependent developing and emerging
country partners", the European Commission proposes to build capacity and conduct
preparatory studies for CCT and CCS technologies in coal-dependent emerging economies
and developing countries, taking a partner-driven, differentiated approach. In addition, it is
envisaged to disseminate worldwide the experience gained in the demonstration project in
China."

"Contributions from the public budget would be required to co-finance for the additional CCS
cost. There are a number of potential sources that it might be possible to leverage:
• EC budget
• EU or EEA Member States national budgets16
• concessional loans from public investment banks.

The public finance could be used in the following ways:
– subsidy
– loan guarantees
– guarantee for private sector return (to guarantee price or regulatory risk)
– investment (with limited expected return)."

"Within the project lifetime a strengthening of the global carbon market and the emergence of
a domestic carbon price in all major economies can be expected. Therefore, a price of
€10/tCO2 avoided is assumed in 2015, which gradually increases to €2021. Taking account of
such a carbon price, and without pre-judging the technology choice, the financing gap is
estimated at roughly €300 million for an IGCC plant and at €550 for a pulverised coal plant22.
Should the carbon price reach higher levels, this financing gap would decrease and public
support could be downsized."

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