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NZIA: Federal government misses deadline for carbon storage facilities

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Published: January 14th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

In Spremberg, Vattenfall tested carbon dioxide capture at the Schwarze Pumpe power plant in 2011.
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Contrary to an obligation under the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), the German government is still not publishing any data on the location of potential carbon storage sites. The BDI thus believes that the targets for carbon capture and storage (CCS targets) are at risk. By the end of last year, Germany, like all EU states, should have made „data publicly available on all areas where carbon storage sites, including saline aquifers, could be approved on their territory.“ This is stated in the NZIA, which the member states adopted in the summer.

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