Deployment of BECCUS value chains

Duration: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2022

Leadership

The project is led by Olle Olsson and Christiane Hennig of IEA Bioenergy Task 40

Objective

The IEA Bioenergy inter-task project on Deployment of BECCUS Value Chains analyzes technological, political and economic aspects related to near- to medium term deployment of systems used for capture and utilization or storage of biogenic CO2.

Publications

Scoping report

• Deployment of BECCS/U value chains – Technological pathways, policy options and business models (June 2020) 

Case studies

• Biomass based combined heat and power (CHP) – HOFOR Amager CHP, Copenhagen, Denmark (May 2021)
• Bioelectricity – Drax Power Station, United Kingdom (May 2021)
• Waste-to-Energy – Fortum Oslo Varme (FOV), Oslo, Norway (May 2021)

Topical reports

• Deployment of bio-CCS in the cement sector: an overview of technology options and policy tools (December 2021)
• Sequestering CO2 from ethanol production in the United States (January 2023)

System studies

• Carbon accounting in Bio-CCUS supply chains – Identifying key issues for science and policy (February 2022)

Summary report

• BECCUS value chains – from concept to commercialization