China’s state-owned power company China Energy Investment Corporation has begun operations in Asia’s largest coal-linked carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) facility, global newswire Reuters wrote in a report citing the Chinese media outlet CCTV.
According to the report, the facility, which is connected to the company’s Taizhou thermal coal power plant in Jiangsu Province in the country’s east, has the annual ability to store 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
As China, the Asia’s largest economy, works to achieve its goal of reaching its peak carbon emissions by 2030, carbon capture has come to the attention of the nation’s major power producers.
he largest CCUS project in the nation, with a capacity of 712,000 tonnes annually, was launched by state-owned oil and gas company Sinopec at one of its oil refineries in Shandong province last year.
China has around 40 CCUS demonstration projects in operation or under construction, with a total annual capture capacity of around 3 million tonnes per year, the report said.
