The European Commission has chosen 85 projects to receive a total of €4.8bn in support from the EU's Innovation Fund. Selected from among the 337 submissions to the Commission's 2023 Call for Net-Zero Technologies, the projects are set to be up and running by 2030 at the latest, and could together reduce emissions by around 476 million tonnes of CO2e in their first ten years of operation.
Among the grant winners are two projects involving the capture and storage of carbon dioxide generated during waste to energy (wte) operations, the association European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology (Eswet) noted last week. The association said that this decision highlighted "the role that wte with carbon capture can play in achieving the EU’s climate targets"....
