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deployment. ZEP has
concluded that if we
want to see CCS facili-
ties in place today,
governments must
support their operat-
ions as well as their
construction.
In the long run the
analysis shows that
as CO₂ prices incre-
ase, CCS will be a
chosen technology
without subsidies,
when minimising
the costs of meeting climate policy objectives.
While the EU Emission Trading System will be the
preferred measure in the long run, the report argues
that a large scale implementation 20 years from now,
depend on implementation of some full scale facili-
ties today in order to learn. It is these facilities that
will need operational subsidies as well as construction
grants.
The report can be found on www.censes.no.
The ZEP market economics report
PhD candidate Christian Skar at the Department of
Electric Power Engineering, NTNU and Asgeir Tomas-
gard has in 2013 participated in the Zero Emission
Platform (ZEP) Temporary Working Group on Market
Economics. Founded in 2005, ZEP is a unique coali-
tion of stakeholders united in their support for CO₂
Capture and Storage (CCS) as a key technology for
combating climate change. ZEP serves as advisor to
the European Commission on the research, demon-
stration and deployment of CCS.
Skar and Tomasgard’s research has together with prof.
Gerard Doorman focused on modeling the impact of
different emission reduction policies on the develop-
ment of the European power system.
The work with ZEP has focused on providing the
modelling and analysis for the report
CO₂ Capture
and Storage (CCS) Recommendations for transitional
measures to drive deployment in Europe
finished in
November 2013. The EMPIRE model used in this work
is an extension of an earlier model developed for the
CenSES project LinkS (Linking global and regional
energy strategies), which was led by Bjørn Bakken at
SINTEF.
The report investigates the role of CCS in reducing
European CO₂ emissions and the effectiveness of dif-
ferent support mechanisms to incentivize early CCS
Dissemination
Energy technologies in the future will need to be
based on renewable sources of energy and will, ulti-
mately, need to be sustainable.
Otto Andersen from Vestlandsforsking published a
new book in 2013 which provides insight into un-
intended, negative impacts and how they can be
avoided. In order to steer away from the pitfalls and
unintended effects, it is essential that the necessary
knowledge is available to the developers and decision
makers engaged in renewable energy.
The value of the book lies in its presentation of the
unintended health and environmental impacts from
renewable energies.
The book presents results from cross-disciplinary
research on the implementation of alternative fuels
in the transport sector, namely hydrogen, electricity
and biodiesel.
This is followed by an assessment of environmental
impacts from the production of solar cells. Critical
reviews on the use of nanotechnology and nanomate-
rials in the energy technologies is then provided, with
the formation of nanoparticles during combustion of
bio-blended diesel and their toxic effects, is discussed
in detail.
The book can be purchased through the publisher’s
website www.springer.com.
Christian Skar (Photo: Claude R. Olsen)
Unintended Consequences of Renewable Energy