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China Launches Asia’s Biggest Coal Carbon Capture
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By
Tsvetana
Paraskova
June 02, 2023
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China Energy Investment Corporation, a state-owned electricity
generator, has started up a carbon capture project at one of its
thermal coal power plants which will be the biggest such carbon
capture facility in Asia.
The carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) facility at the
Taizhou thermal coal power plant will have an annual capacity to store
500,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), a report in state media outlet
CCTV said on
Friday.
China is looking to increase the use of CCUS in its enormous fleet of
coal-fired power plants, which continues to grow as power demand
increases.
This year, concerns about power shortages could force China to
rely more on coal to keep grids stable amid the growing demand for
electricity, including from the rising electric vehicles (EV) fleet,
analysts at ANZ Group said earlier this year.
“Power shortages are likely to reemerge as the acceleration in the
energy transition continues to put pressure on electricity networks,”
the analysts added.
Currently, China is building or planning to build some
366 gigawatts (GW) in new coal generation capacity, accounting for
some 68% of global planned new coal capacity as of 2022. Outside
China, coal generation capacity is shrinking, with 2.2 GW getting
retired in Europe last year and 13.5 GW of capacity retired in the
United States—the highest rate of coal power plant retirement
globally.
Carbon capture and storage is one of the ways for China to mitigate
emissions from coal as the world’s top energy consumer has said it
would aim to see its emissions peak by 2030.
Elsewhere, CCUS
is gaining momentum in the UK and the United States with major
government support over the past year as part of the solutions to cut
greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on track to reach the Paris
Agreement targets.
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