The Swedish process industry and the Roadmap to zero emissions

Purpose and goal

The purpose of this innovation agenda is to describe the background to CCS in Sweden and what would be required for CCS to become a reality on a large scale by 2050. The targets, to collect expertise from industry and academia, and to formulate a program based on what is required to realize the competitive climate measures for the industry, are met and the agenda describes the necessary steps to ensure the realization of CCS in Sweden. Work continues with concretization through the additional funding that the project has received from the Energy Agency

Results and expected effects

The main conclusions are that as soon as possible: 1. Develop a comprehensive national strategy for CCS. 2. Investigate the conditions for a large-scale demonstration project for CCS that includes both the capture and storage of carbon dioxide, at latest 2025. 3. Create a coherent research program for the process industry and CCS, for the years 2016, to 2020 to answer critical questions that will arise in a large-scale implementation of CCS in Sweden. For this to be possible, continued cooperation between industry, academia and society in general is necessary.

Approach and implementation

The agenda work has used results, suggestions and ideas from several Swedish research and development projects. The practical work has been done through delegated and coordinated writing and a number of working meetings. Representatives from both industry and academia has contributed with background information, facts and proposals for the structure of the agenda. The work was coordinated by the Energy Research Institute (formerly Elforsk) and consultancy Panaware. This approach has been very successful and led to a concrete program of what is required for the introduction of CCS.