Abstract
In West Macedonia (Greece), CO2 accounts as one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions related to the activity of the regional coal power plants located in Ptolemaida. The necessity to mitigate CO2 emissions to prevent climate change under the Paris Agreement’s framework remains an ongoing and demanding challenge. It requires implementing crucial environmentally sustainable technologies to provide balanced solutions between the short-term needs for dependency on fossil fuels and the requirements to move towards the energy transition era. The challenge to utilise and store CO2 emissions will require actions aiming to contribute to a Europe-wide CCUS infrastructure. The Horizon 2020 European Project “STRATEGY CCUS “examines the potential for CO2 storage in the Mesohellenic Trough from past available data deploying the USDOE methodology. Research results show that CO2 storage capacities for the Pentalofos and Eptachori geological formations of the Mesohellenic Trough are estimated at 1.02 and 0.13 Gt, respectively, thus providing the potential for the implementation of a promising method for reducing CO2 emissions in Greece. A certain storage potential also applies to the Grevena sub-basin, offering the opportunity to store any captured CO2 in the area, including other remote regions.
Highlights
The global economy is highly dependent on electrical energy to meet current and future demands on food, water sanitation, higher living standards and any other daily activity.Water, energy and food are important natural resources that influence the human health, quality of life, as well as the economic growth and social progress at the national and global levels
This paper presents a review on potential CCUS clusters and transport systems and provides a CO2 storage resource assessment
Geological CO2 storage provides the potential for storing permanently large quantities of CO2 through various options mitigating the effects of climate change [26]
Summary
The global economy is highly dependent on electrical energy to meet current and future demands on food, water sanitation, higher living standards and any other daily activity. Energy and food are important natural resources that influence the human health, quality of life, as well as the economic growth and social progress at the national and global levels. These three factors should be examined within a systematic and holistic framework and they cannot be considered separately [1]. Such reductions will be possible only by decoupling economic growth and CO2 emissions [15] Improving efficiency in both the energy demand and supply sector, implementing low-carbon energy sources and capturing CO2 from fossil fuel combustion are critical strategies for reducing
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