Overview

• The economy ministry’s draft law would enable CO2 capture, transport and permanent storage, allow use for gas power and blue hydrogen, and set conditions for a national pipeline network.
• The environment ministry argues CCS should be limited to unavoidable industrial emissions, not gas-fired power plants, warning against prolonging fossil fuel use.
• The Federal Environment Agency cautions that storage capacity is limited and says CCS cannot substitute for deep emissions cuts across transport, buildings and industry.
• Energy economist Andreas Löschel says CCS retrofits for gas plants are unlikely to be economical because many will run only intermittently.
• The government has opened a stakeholder consultation on seabed storage and cross-border CO2 shipments under the London Protocol as the proposal moves toward parliamentary debate.