Enel Enters CCS Technology Deal With China

Published: 14-Sep-2009

Enel, an Italy-based utility and power company, has signed an agreement with the Chineese Ministry of Science and Technology for capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2).

Enel said that under the agreement, it will conduct a feasibility study for using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at a Chinese coal-fired plant, for capturing the CO2 produced and injecting it into an oilfield, thereby increasing crude oil production.

Livio Vido, director of engineering and innovation division at Enel, said: "Today this agreement strengthens the collaboration between Enel and the Chinese institutions, with whom we have been working successfully since 2004. Enel offers a great country like China its cutting-edge technologies, such as that for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide, which will make a substantial contribution to the combat against climate change”.

According to Enel, the Italy-China partnership will promote the exchange of information between the researchers of the two countries.

Enel has also developed a programme, currently under review by the European Union for the disbursement of funding under the European Economic Recovery Plan, to build a full-scale plant that, starting in 2015, will make it possible to capture CO2 generated by the coal-fired power plant to be built in Porto Tolle.

The company added that it will use the experience it has gained in designing and constructing a pilot system that will allow it to test CO2 capture technology at its Federico II Plant in Brindisi starting in 2010.

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