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