• EUR ~120 million award from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (“CEF”) to accelerate development of the Prinos Carbon Storage project in Greece
EnEarth, the 100%-owned decarbonisation specialist subsidiary of London FTSE 250-listed and Tel Aviv-35-listed Energean plc, announces that the European Commission has earmarked a EUR ~120 million CEF grant to support the development of a liquified CO2 receiving terminal at Prinos Carbon Storage.
This grant, when combined with the previously announced EUR 150 million Greek Recovery and Resilience Facility (“RRF”), allows EnEarth to commence project development and market tests, subject to the award of the necessary CO2 storage licence.
The project is expected to provide a maximum storage capacity of up to ~3 million tonnes of CO2 per year, or enough to abate ~25% of Greek industrial emissions. Beyond Greece, the project is also expected to play a role in abating emissions from across the EU, and has been recognised as a Project of Common Interest.
Nikolas Rigas, EnEarth Head of Carbon Storage commented:
“We thank the European Commission and the EU Member States for their vote of confidence in our project, which is based on the significant demand for decarbonisation across European hard-to-abate industries.
Prinos CO2 will store emissions from industries such as cement, refining, chemicals and more, where the production of CO2 is part of the industrial process and cannot be abated by a change of fuel or energy efficiency initiatives. Our regionally unique carbon storage facility will help protect industrial employment and competitiveness in the region.
We are proud to be playing a leading role in helping Greece, the South-Eastern Mediterranean region and the EU reach their decarbonisation goals, building a new green industrial transition hub in Northern Greece, that will further support the local economy. Prinos CO2 will allow the north of Greece to play a leading role in the green future of Europe”
source: cyprusshippingnews.com
