This is a key milestone in eliminating CO2 emissions from coal fired power plants in the Europe, since Belchatow is reportedly one of the biggest CO2 emission source in the region.
The Polish Electricity Association PKEE (including PGE and other Polish utilities) recently called EU policy-makers to formulate rules to eliminate all CO2 emissions from EU power generation by 2050. The Association thought that as coal-fired power plants operate typically for 40-50 years, the regulatory certainty should be introduced now that the only possible future for coal is with CCS.
Subsequently, the Belchatow project was chosen as the Polish candidate, along with six other European projects from the European Energy Programme, to distribute a sum of €1.05 billion among them.
