The roadmap – produced under the SETIS system to support delivery of a European energy technology policy – puts forward the case for key R&D activities and proposes a comprehensive European programme.
Among the energy technologies considered are wind, solar power, the fossil fuel energy sector (including carbon capture and storage), geothermal, bio-energy and nuclear fission.
With regard to the fossil fuel sector, the roadmap proposes an R&D programme that includes materials for post combustion capture – such as solvents and advanced solvents – and the development of oxygen carriers and sorbents for precombustion technologies with a lower cost per tonne of CO2 separated.
And in order to speed the progress of its results from research to market, the programme also includes several industrial pilots to validate findings and test the performance of materials under realistic operating conditions.
The roadmap’s introduction states: “We need new energy technologies – not just any low carbon technologies, but more efficient and cost-competitive low carbon technologies. Materials play a pivotal role in the solution, providing the means to generate and conserve energy in a more efficient and cost-competitive manner.”
To download the roadmap, click here.
Read the EC’s press release here.
To find out more about the EC’s SET-Plan to move towards a low-carbon economy by 2050, click here.
