https://www.newpower.info/2023/08/north-london-waste-authority-awards-contracts-to-explore-ccs-at-edmonton-site/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://www.newpower.info/2023/08/north-london-waste-authority-awards-contracts-to-explore-ccs-at-edmonton-site/#comment-95914 James Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:15:21 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=12689#comment-95914 As with biomass, between a third and a quarter of the energy generated in the energy from wast facility will be needed to capture, compress, transport and store CO2 emitted during combustion – jeopardising the facility’s viability. Particularly in the power sector, CCS is characterised globally by failure – even where, unlike beneath London, the geology is, in theory, favourable. As experience in Norway suggests, theory about permanent geological storage and might not match practice. Reflecting global experience, the percentage of CO2 actually captured is likely to be at best half that proposed, especially given the variability of the waste being burned.

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