CCS demo Denmark: The Vedsted case

AbstractVattenfall is a major operator on the energy market in Europe and have a broad portfolio of energy production from nuclear power, biomass and coal fired power plants together with a growing amount of wind turbines. Large research programs are looking into optimizing production and reducing environmental impact from the different units. It is Vattenfall vision to be CO2 neutral in the Nordic countries in 2030 and for the entire group in 2050. To obtain these goals Vattenfall is very active in developing technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS). In Denmark Vattenfall operates three coal-fired power plants and a screening survey in 2007, matching power plant and storage site location–source sink matching - pointed towards Nordjyllandsværket near the city of Aalborg as the most obvious plant with safe onshore storage opportunities only 30 km away. It was decided to develop the project into a full scale demo project with post-combustion capture, pipeline transport and onshore storage in an aquifer. The whole project has been driven by a very firm time schedule in order to meet the 2015 deadline. When the CCS project on the Vattenfall operated power plant Jänschwalde in Germany was granted funding through the European Commission the CCS project at Nordjyllandsværket was turned into an early commercial project aiming at 2020 for commissioning. The site characterization is still ongoing on the Danish site