INDUSTRIAL CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS AND POTENTIAL GEOLOGICAL SINKS IN THE BALTIC STATES

Industrial CO2 emissions and geological storage opportunities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are studied within the framework of EU GEO-CAPACITY and CO2NET EAST projects supported by European Commission through Framework Programme 6. The structure of the energy sector and socio-economic conditions vary considerably between these three countries. A total of 24 large (emitting more than 0.1 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2) industrial sources of CO2 emissions, registered in 2005 in the European Trading Scheme, consists of 11.5 Mt of CO2 from Estonia, 1.9 Mt from Latvia and 5.6 Mt from Lithuania. The highest amount of CO2 emission in Estonia is related to the oil shale used as the main fuel for power generation; the two largest Estonian power plants – Estonian and Baltic – produced respectivel