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Jänschwalde CCS

Last modified: 2011-05-24T10:00:22+01:00

Brief description:

Jänschwalde CCS: Read more; Capture Method:
Post-combustion Oxyfuel
Capture Technology:
Ammonia
Capital cost:
€1 billion
Financial support:
finsup
--> Volume:
1.7 million tonnes; 51.8593826 14.4964374

Facts:

Country:

Germany

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Small

Status: Identified

Capital cost: €1 billion

Financal support:
EU's European Economy Recovery Plan
NER300

Year of operation 2015

Industry: Coal Power Plant

MW capacity:

300MW

Capture method: Post-combustion Oxyfuel

Capture technology:
Ammonia

New or retrofit:

Retrofit

Transport of CO2 by:

Road

Storage site:

Possibly Altmark, but not yet decided

Type of storage:

EOR

Volume:

1.7 million tonnes/CO2

Jänschwalde power plant

Vattenfall is developing a demonstration CCS project to test and develop oxyfuel and post-combustion capture technologies at an existing brown coal-fired power plant at Jänschwalde, Brandenburg, in Germany.

The capture plant will be retrofitted to one of six 500MW generating units, which has two boilers - one will be equipped with oxyfuel technology, the other with post-combustion technology based on a chilled ammonia process. The demonstration plant will produce 300 MW and will capture up to 1.7 million tonnes per year of CO2.

Vattenfall is cooperating with Gaz de France Production and Exploration to test a technology for storing the captured CO2 in a depleted natural gas field in the Altmark. Initially, the captured gas will be transported by truck and, later, by pipeline.

The company is keen to develop commercially-viable CCS technologies and has stated its aim to be carbon neutral by 2050. Recent developments in Germany’s legal framework for CCS might help the project's progress, provided that the CCS law is voted for through the political system. Vattenfall has applied for EU aid for the pilot but it can only receive the money if Germany brings the EU CCS directive into national law.

Vattenfall had been considering other storage sites in Germany and alternative options, such as Poland, for the location of the pilot plant.

The demo has been ranked as the most advanced CCS demonstration plant within the European Union.

Timing

Feasibility studies began in 2008. Permit approvals were expected in 2009, ground breaking was scheduled around 2010/2011, and start-up is planned for 2015. No further details are available.

Financing

Vattenfall estimates a total investment need of €1.5 billion. As an EU-backed project, it has been awarded funding of €180 million from the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR).

The project has also applied for funding from NER300, and was submitted by the German Government to the European Investment Bank on 9 May 2011.