International CCS Knowledge Centre

Globally sharing our large-scale #CCS/#CCUS expertise to see substantive cuts in #CO2 #emissions in the #energy and #industry sectors. 

At the International CCS Knowledge Centre, our passion is to accelerate the global deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS/CCUS) through the advancement of the understanding and the use of CCS as a means for countries and their citizens to manage current and future GHG emissions. We do this because we recognize the urgency and collective responsibility to act now to tackle climate change.  CCS is a proven, reliable and clean technology that removes the single largest amount of CO2 from the atmosphere, more than any other existing technology. As recognized by the UN International Panel on Climate Change, the international targets set in Kyoto and Paris are not economically feasible without CCS.

We bring together countries with significant CCS experience with those in the early stages of their learning curve. We are facilitators who operate to ensure that there is support and momentum within these three fundamental drivers for success: policy and economics, capacity, and financing. 

Created in 2016, the International CCS Knowledge Centre is a non-profit organization sponsored jointly by global resource leader, BHP and SaskPower with the goal of accelerating the world-wide development of CCS technology through the:

• sharing of access to data, information, and lessons learned from SaskPower’s Boundary Dam 3 CCS Integrated Facility (BD3); and,
• incorporating the knowledge and experience from CCS projects elsewhere in the world.

RENEWABLES

Nations around the world require a sustainable energy base to power societies – such as the electricity needed to mobilize vehicles, heat and cool food, and light and heat homes.  However, currently the majority of energy to power the world is made possible through the use of fossil fuels. This provides a challenge to sustainability as the majority of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) are generated by the energy sector and by the burning of fossil fuels.      Renewables, such as wind and solar have important contributions to make toward clean energy alternatives. Yet these technologies may still be decades away from providing reliable and consistent power options on a broad scale.   As the world needs a reliable energy base, the world needs all the technologies it can get to tackle climate change.  Renewables and CCS are complementary and should co-exist. To underscore the complementary nature, the International CCS Knowledge Centre has done a feasibility design  on the Shand Power Station that is highly flexible for renewable options in a generating mix. This design accommodates the fluctuations in day-to-day operations by adjusting to the variable load changes associated with renewable technologies.    Until the technological advances are there for renewables to be able to provide reliable, base load energy systems, CCS is an important transitory technology.  Together, renewables and CCS can provide reliable, clean energy solutions.