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26 February 2009 - E.ON Benelux and Rotterdam Climate Initiative (RCI) have agreed to co-operate provide E.ON's power station in Maasvlakte with a carbon capture and storage (CCS) system to cope with the environmentally harmful carbon dioxide emitted.
For this purpose, a feasibility study is to be carried out. In the presence of the Dutch Economics Minister, Maria Van der Hoeven, E.ON Benelux and RCI agreed to cooperate on this subject.
The two parties are greatly interested in successfully developing the technology for removing, transporting and storing carbon dioxide. "With the aid of CCS our new, highly efficient coal-fired power stations will make a significant contribution to achieving our climate protection targets and halving carbon dioxide emissions from our power stations by 2030," said E.ON CEO Wulf Bernotat.
RCI, which likewise intends to cut carbon dioxide emissions by one half until 2025 compared with 1990, has identified the port with the construction site for the new E.ON power station in Maasvlakte as a suitable location; one of the criteria is proximity to CO2 storage capacities, for which RCI is responsible as part of an integrated infrastructure.
At its power station site in Maasvlakte E.ON has at its disposal good conditions for subsequently installing a CCS plant. At Rotterdam port, a new, highly efficient coal-fired power station is currently being built.
Costing €1.2bn ($1.6bn), it will have an efficiency of approximately 46 per cent and an installed capacity of 1100 MW.
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