China Energy starts operations at Asia's largest coal carbon capture facility
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Excavators transferring coal at a port in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu province.
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BEIJING – Chinese state-owned power generator China Energy Investment Corp has started operations at Asia’s largest coal-linked carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) facility, according to a report in state media outlet CCTV on Friday.
The facility, adjoined to the group’s Taizhou thermal coal power plant in the country’s eastern Jiangsu province, has the annual capacity to store 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, the report said.
Carbon capture has become a focus area for China’s major power generators as the country pursues a plan to hit its carbon emissions peak by 2030.
In 2022, state-owned oil and gas giant Sinopec launched a CCUS project with a capacity of 712,000 tonnes a year – the country’s largest – at one of its oil refineries in Shandong province.
China has around 40 CCUS demonstration projects in operation or under construction, with a total annual capture capacity of around three million tonnes per year, the CCTV report said. REUTERS
