Facing China's Coal Future - IEA
Facing China's Coal Future - IEA
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<strong>Facing</strong> China’s <strong>Coal</strong> <strong>Future</strong>: Prospects and Challenges for CCS © OECD/<strong>IEA</strong> 2011<br />
Figure 16 Stakeholder views on industry readiness for CCS in China<br />
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Source: CCII Survey.<br />
Survey Finding (Figure 16): Views differ on China’s CCS leadership. Local stakeholders suggested<br />
that China’s leadership in CCS technology would likely be developed post 2020, citing a late start<br />
in R&D and a lack of funds and policy support. Almost 90% agreed that China would not be a<br />
global leader in CCS technology development until 2020. However, 80% expressed confidence<br />
that China would inevitably become a leader in the long run, with increased Chinese government<br />
investment in R&D and drivers such as international competitiveness of CCS technology and<br />
China’s status as the largest potential CCS market. These differing views may also reflect lack of a<br />
clear global policy direction or agreement both from a policy and technical perspective on a<br />
standardised path to CCS development.<br />
Moving forward, stakeholders suggested, China’s future CCS projects should prioritise capture<br />
technology R&D (Figure 17), as CCS project feasibility from a cost perspective depends heavily on<br />
economic viability of the capture process, with capture efficiency a key priority and closely linked<br />
to an acceleration of demonstration projects. Development of policy and planning was seen as a<br />
lower priority at this point.<br />
Survey Finding (Figure 17): CO 2 storage issues remain dominant concern. Addressing knowledge<br />
and technical gaps related to storage issues in China seemed a significant priority for future<br />
development overall, with storage‐related issues accounting for over 55% of the total issues to<br />
be prioritised and addressed. Similar past studies reflect the importance of clarifying key<br />
questions of China’s storage capacity.<br />
Figure 17 Stakeholder ranking* on China’s near‐term CCS technical development priorities<br />
Source: CCII Survey.