4.2.6 Other EEPR projects (Poland, Spain, Italy)

For completeness, the status of the three other remaining EEPR funded projects in Europe is mentioned here. However, no clear published material concerning the monitoring plans for the industrial-scale application of CO2 storage for these projects sites is available to the knowledge of the authors. The PGE Bełchatów project in Poland has been suspended and recently announced as terminated. About 1.7 million tonnes of CO2 was planned to be captured from a new CCS-ready block of a lignite-fired power plant in central Poland, transported via a 140 km pipeline and stored in an onshore saline aquifer of Jurassic sandstones at a depth of about 1 km. The project stopped just before the full characterization and baseline monitoring of the selected site. No detailed description of the monitoring plan for the selected site was published. More information can be found at the website of the PGE Bełchatów project (2013).

The Compostilla project in Spain includes at this moment no industrial-scale application of either storage or monitoring, but the ongoing R&D work includes a storage pilot (planned injection of about 20,000 tonnes of CO2) with a monitoring network within (a part of) an area where the demo storage operations are planned (after the Global CCS Institute website and Dios, 2013). No detailed description of the monitoring plan for the industrial-scale application of CO2 storage can be found currently.

The Italian CCS project of Porto Tolle by Enel, of similar magnitude as these mentioned above, includes offshore storage and no detailed description of the monitoring plan for the industrial-scale application of CO2 storage can be found currently.