Huge response for the first ACT call
/38 pre-proposals were submitted to the ACT-program on September 7th 2016. Pre-proposals have been sent in from every country taking part in the ACT-program. The total amount of money applied for is around € 120 million. The total budget for all the pre-proposals put together (including money applied for) is € 157 million. The available budget from the ACT-program for this call is around € 41 million.
- The large amount of applications is a very promising sign for the implementation of CCS in Europe. We are very exited to go through the pre-proposals. The only downside is that competition for funding will be very tough, says ACT Coordinator Ragnhild Rønneberg from the Research Council of Norway.
Details about the submitted pre-proposals
Norway is the most frequently represented partner country, taking part in 29 pre-proposals (lead in 19). UK is the second most frequently represented, taking part in 23 pre-proposals (lead in 6). Germany is the third with 21 pre-proposals (lead in 5). The Netherlands is in 19 pre-proposals (lead in 6). Turkey is the fifth most frequently represented partner country, taking part in 6 pre-proposals (lead in 2).
| DE | GR | NL | NO | RO | ES | CH | TR | UK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tot. num. of pre-proposals each country participates in: | 21 | 3 | 19 | 29 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 23 |
| Lead in how many projects: | 5 | 6 | 19 | 2 | 6 |
Distributions of pre-proposals on thematic areas and countries:
| Total number of projects in each area | DE | GR | NL | NO | RO | ES | CH | TR | UK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture | 15 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| Transport | 0 | |||||||||
| Storage | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| Storage & EOR | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Full CCS chain | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Utilisation | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Applied funding from ACT countries | € |
|---|---|
| DE | 20 198 905 |
| GR | 194 500 |
| NL | 18 565 584 |
| NO | 47 664 797 |
| RO | 1 148 000 |
| ES | 1 136 129 |
| CH | 5 466 641 |
| TR | 1 568 316 |
| UK | 23 122 413 |
There are seven large projects (applying for more than € 3 M) and 31 small projects (applying for less than € 3 M).
What happens next?
Now the pre-proposals are being read and evaluated by the ACT partner countries.
In the end of September the whole ACT consortium will be gathered for the final evaluation-meeting of the first round of the ACT call. They will come to a decision about which projects will go through to phase 2 of the application process, where the deadline for submitting the full proposal is the 16th of January 2017.
