Since its inception in 1997, DOE’s Carbon Sequestration Program – managed within FE and implemented by NETL – has been developing both core and supporting technologies through which CCS can become an effective and economically viable option for reducing CO2 emissions from coal-based power plants (NETL, 2007a). Successful R&D will enable CCS technologies to overcome various technical, economic, and social challenges, such as cost-effective CO2 separation and transport, long-term stability of CO2 sequestration in underground formations, MVA, integration with power generation systems, and public acceptance. The programmatic timeline is to demonstrate a portfolio of safe and cost-effective CO2 capture, storage, and mitigation technologies at the commercial scale by 2012, leading to substantial deployment and market penetration.
