FINNCAP - Meri-Pori CCS demonstration project

Abstract Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is considered to be a key technology that can help fight climate change. The European Union has pledged significant funds to support the completion of 10–12 large-scale CCS demonstration projects by 2015. Fortum and Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) are developing such a demonstration project at the Meri-Pori power plant. The project would fit especially well with the EU’s demonstration programme. The project envisages a capture plant that would treat about 50% of the 565 MW condensing coal plant’s flue gases with a capture rate of over 90%. It plans to combine CO2 post-combustion capture technology with ship transportation of the CO2 to an offshore storage site abroad, where enhanced oil recovery opportunities would be explored in conjunction with CO2 storage. The project, called FINNCAP, is one of few large-scale CCS projects that will be able to start operations by 2015 in accordance with EU requirements.