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Victorian CarbonNet

Brief description:

Victorian CarbonNet: Read more; Capture Method:
Post-combustion Pre-combustion
Capture Technology:

Capital cost:
Financial support:
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4-10 million tonnes; -38.500415 142.760581

Comments

This project is being led by Victoria’s state government. No stakeholders have yet been identified.

Facts:

Country: Australia

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Large

Objective:

To create a transport and storage hub for capturing CO2 emissions from large-scale emitters in the Latrobe Valley

Status: Identified

Financal support:
ETIS

Year of operation 2015-2019

Industry: Coal Power Plant
Other

Capture method: Post-combustion Pre-combustion

New or retrofit: Retrofit

Transport of CO2 by: Pipeline

Type of storage: Aquifers

Volume: 4-10 million tonnes/CO2

Power plants in Latrobe Valley

The state of Victoria is planning a transport-and-storage hub for capturing CO2 emissions from industries in the Latrobe Valley, including coal-fired power stations. In February 2012, the Australian government’s CCS Flagships Program awarded Victorian CarbonNet $70 million, and the Victorian state government pledged $30m, towards feasibility studies.

The project aims to capture between 4 and 10 million tonnes per annum of CO2, which would then be transported, via an infrastructure open to multiple industry users, to suitable on and offshore geological storage sites. This shared network would be developed in stages over a ten-year period or longer.

Trials have already shown that Victoria has good potential for sequestration, in particular at Nirranda in the south-west of the state, where 60,000 tonnes of CO2 have already been stored. Victoria CarbonNet has emerged from Victoria’s $110 million Energy Technology Innovation Strategy (ETIS).

Latrobe Valley already hosts a CCS research hub – led by CO2CRC – which is exploring commercially-viable methods for reducing CO2 emissions at brown coal-fired power plants. Seven linked research projects have secured funding from ETIS.

In November 2011, Australia's national research agency CSIRO published a literature review as part of the management of basin resources, and of direct relevance to the Collie Hub, CarbonNet and Wandoan CCS projects. This review contains information on identified resources, geological assessments and an analysis of data still required by the three key projects.

Financing

The Victorian CarbonNet has been shortlisted by Australia’s CCS Flagships Program as one of four projects to share $120 million to fund pre-feasibility studies. In January 2012, the project was awarded funding of A$240,000 by the Global CCS Institure towards conducting a measuring, monitoring, and verification study of stored emissions (see ZERO article link below).