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INVESTABLE STORAGE ATLAS – SUPPORTING INVESTMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CO2 STORAGE CAPACITY IN THE EU

Project description

Charting Europe’s path to permanent carbon storage

To meet climate goals, Europe must identify and develop viable locations for permanent carbon sequestration. The EU-funded CO2SITE project will address this by creating an open-access digital atlas of investable storage sites across the EU and the European Economic Area. Building on 20 years of collective expertise, the project will combine technical data with qualitative indicators, such as infrastructure availability and regulatory hurdles, to assess site attractiveness. By building on existing European geological data infrastructures and establishing a foundation for the long-term maintenance and accessibility of storage site information, CO2SITE aims to empower project developers, provide Member States with the evidence needed for informed policy and licensing, and facilitate Europe’s transition towards a sustainable, low-carbon economy.

Objective

CO2SITE will create an open access digital atlas of investable storage sites in the EU, which will allow an assessment of the attractiveness of potential CO2 storage sites to be developed into CO2 stores. CO2SITE’s atlas is to become a valuable tool for project developers performing site screening or portfolio research. Moreover, the Investable Storage Atlas and the reports produced during the project will provide a source of information for regional and national governments to assess the feasibility of developing CO2 storage locations or clusters, thus creating the basis for decision-making at a policy level and providing storage regulators with knowledge to target future licensing. The Atlas will contain an elaborate database of potential CO2 storage sites, a comprehensive risk assessment of individual sites, as well as dedicated tooling to interrogate, assess and rank the data according to user-defined preferences. A large-scale data collation operation will be undertaken in Member States with a broad geographic coverage across the EU and the EEA, where data publication from the NZIA obligations will be incorporated into the database and the Atlas. CO2SITE builds up on 20 years of expertise, including the ongoing GSEU project, that will deliver the current EU/EEA CO2 storage database in a GIS environment. In addition to technical and quantitative data collection, CO2SITE will include qualitative risk and opportunity indicators such as available infrastructure, regulatory hurdles, funding mechanisms, information on legacy wells, cross-border transportation barriers. The Investable Storage Atlas will include functionalities to estimate dynamic capacity estimates and perform a site-specific and fit-for-purpose techno-economic assessment of potential storage sites. Regional studies will be performed to support the development of CCS clusters.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2025-02

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Coordinator

NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
Net EU contribution
€ 479 291,59
Total cost
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Participants (35)