Cleantech Investor

Cleantech People Moves in association with Climate Human Capital – june 2011

Brad Page has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s Global CCS Institute. He will assume his new role in August 2011. Previously, Page spent seven years as CEO at the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA).

by Simon Bennett

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), we are told, could be demonstrated today, and could be rolled out on a massive scale tomorrow, saving millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide at each facility. However, the risks for investors will remain high unless a few dramatic technology improvements surface soon. We assess aspects of CCS which are likely to prove interesting to investors and identify five sources of potentially disruptive innovations.

First published in Cleantech magazine, May/June 2009. Copyright Cleantech Investor Ltd 2009

The adoption of CCS may pave the way for technologies for the treatment of low grade coal. We review four companies with pre-combustion treatment technologies.

First published in Cleantech magazine, May/June 2009. Copyright Cleantech Investor Ltd 2009

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), we are told, could be demonstrated today, and could be rolled out on a massive scale tomorrow, saving millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide at each facility. However, the risks for investors will remain high unless a few dramatic technology improvements surface soon. We assess aspects of CCS which are likely to prove interesting to investors and identify five sources of potentially disruptive innovations.

By Simon Bennett, a researcher in the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT) at Imperial College London.

First published in Cleantech magazine, May/June 2009. Copyright Cleantech Investor Ltd. 2009

What will make CCS economically feasible? Is there a business case for investing in either large scale CCS or in related technology development areas? The arguments are complex and clearly strong political backing will be crucial. We canvass a selection of opinions from informed commentators on the requirements for CCS/CCS related investment, from a variety of perspectives.