Gov. creates
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Gov. Arnold Sch-warzenegger has created a blue ribbon panel to determine how the state can best enhance green-house gas emiss-ions reduction through the use of geologic carbon capture and storage (CCS) in California. | |
The panel, called the California Carbon Capture
and Storage Review Panel, will address the role of CCS in meeting the state's energy needs and emissions reduction strategies for 2020 and 2050.
The California Energy Commission, California Public Utilities Commission and Air Resources Board anticipate the panel's recommen-dations can be used for the development of legislation and regulations that will
benefit the use of CCS in the state.
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Welcome to the summer edition of HECA news & update, an e-newsletter aimed at keeping you informed of developments related to the Hydrogen Energy California (HECA) project proposed for western Kern County, California.
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DOE, CEC hold review meetings on HECA The California Energy Commission (CEC) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) held separate public meetings this past April to review different aspects of the Hydrogen Energy California project.
The CEC workshop, held near the project site, was a forum for discussing responses to the CEC staff's data requests and to work toward resolving questions on potential project impacts on air quality, biological and cultural resources, geology, public health, soil and water resources and other areas. The commission is the lead aqency with permitting authority for the project.
The DOE meeting sought comments on the scope of a federal Environmental Impact Statement required because of DOE's providing limited financial assistance to the project. As part of the Clean Coal Power Initiative, DOE last year said it would provide up to $308 million for HECA project costs.
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study confirms ccs needed to cut emissions
A landmark study by San Francisco-based Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3), "Meeting California's Long-Term Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals," is the first comprehensive look at the steps necessary to cut statewide greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050.
E3 study says CCS can play an important role in dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet state targets
The study, sponsored by Hydrogen Energy California, looks out 40 years and concludes that achieving long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals will require moving towards increased electrification, low-carbon power generation, and zero emissions technologies. To reach emission reduction targets, the report stresses a mix of low-carbon power generation utilizing CCS, as well as wind, solar, biomass and nuclear.
"Without all of these emission reduction measures," the study states, "it will be extremely difficult to reduce statewide emissions to the range of 85 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2050." If the electricity sector must move toward a low carbon future by 2050, "almost all of the state's fleet of fossil-fuel based power plants must be replaced by some combination of renewable energy, nuclear power and power generation with carbon capture and storage."
The report adds, "Conventional power plants built today may risk early retirement before the end of their useful life or will need to be retrofit with CCS if California is to meet its long-term greenhouse gas reduction goal." For more information, see California 2050 Report on GHG Reductions |
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contributing to the community
support for youth programs
Hydrogen Energy California donated $15,000 to West Kern County schools, scholarships and programs for summer 2010.
Beneficiaries include the Tupman School's Science field trip to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, the Buttonwillow School's annual Science Camp, a College Scholarship for a West Kern County graduate through the Buttonwillow Chamber of Commerce, a donation to the Alpha House women shelter and a grant to California State University's Geology Department to fund a student research project on Carbon Capture Storage.
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HECA joins California CCS coalition
Hydrogen Energy California has joined the California CCS Coalition, a non-profit educational and advocacy group created earlier this year to promote CCS as an integral part of any state strategy to reduce carbon emissions.
According to Jonathan Briggs, director of Americas for HECA, "California's regulatory and legislative climate should further encourage the development of new energy technology. In particular,
the state should create incentives for investment not just in renewable energy technology, but also for low-carbon base load power generation, like the HECA project. The work of the coalition will be important in seeing this become a reality."
In addition to HECA, coalition members include: Aera Energy, Chevron, Clean Energy Systems, Sempra Energy Utilities, Southern California Edison, Shell and Western States Petroleum Association.
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