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Zero Emission Porto Tolle Project (ZEPT)Nominators: Italy (lead) and European Commission This is a large-scale project, located in northeastern Italy, which will demonstrate post-combustion CCS on 40% of the flue gas from one of the three 660 megawatt units of the existing Porto Tolle Power Plant (which is being converted from heavy oil fuel to coal). The goal of the project is to demonstrate industrial application of CO2 capture and geological storage for the power sector at full commercial scale. The demonstration plant will be operated for an extended period (approx. 10 years) in order to fully demonstrate the technology on an industrial scale, clarify the real costs of CCS, and prove the retrofit option for high-efficiency coal fired units which will be built (or replaced) in the coming 10-15 years. Storage of approx. 1 million tonnes per year of CO2 will take place in a deep saline aquifer beneath the seabed of the Adriatic Sea approx. 100 kilometers from the project site.
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