Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (repealed)Show full title

21. Determination of greenhouse gas emissions from CO₂ capture activities for the purposes of transport and geological storage in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC U.K.

A. Scope U.K.

CO₂ capture shall be performed either by a dedicated installation receiving CO₂ by transfer from one or more other installations, or by the same installation carrying out the activities producing the captured CO₂ under the same greenhouse gas emissions permit. All parts of the installation related to CO₂ capture, intermediate storage, transfer to a CO₂ transport network or to a site for geological storage of CO₂ greenhouse gas emissions shall be included in the greenhouse gas emissions permit and accounted for in the associated monitoring plan. In the case of the installation carrying out other activities covered by Directive 2003/87/EC, the emissions of those activities shall be monitored in accordance with the other relevant sections of this Annex.

The operator of a CO₂ capture activity shall at least include the following potential sources of CO₂ emission:

(a)

CO₂ transferred to the capture installation;

(b)

combustion and other associated activities at the installation that are related to the capture activity, including fuel and input material use.

B. Quantification of transferred and emitted CO₂ amounts U.K.

B.1. Installation level quantification U.K.

Each operator shall calculate the emissions by taking into account the potential CO₂ emissions from all emission relevant processes at the installation, as well as the amount of CO₂ captured and transferred to the transport network, using the following formula:

E_{capture installation} = T_input + E_{without capture} – T_{for storage}

Where:

E_{capture installation}

=

Total greenhouse gas emissions of the capture installation;

T_input

=

Amount of CO₂ transferred to the capture installation, determined in accordance with Article 40 to 46 and Article 49.

E_{without capture}

=

Emissions of the installation assuming the CO₂ were not captured, meaning the sum of the emissions from all other activities at the installation, monitored in accordance with relevant sections of Annex IV;

T_{for storage}

=

Amount of CO₂ transferred to a transport network or a storage site, determined in accordance with Article 40 to 46 and Article 49.

In cases where CO₂ capture is carried out by the same installation as the one from which the captured CO₂ originates, the operator shall use zero for T_input.

In cases of stand-alone capture installations, the operator shall consider E_{without capture} to represent the amount of emissions that occur from other sources than the CO₂ transferred to the installation for capture. The operator shall determine those emissions in accordance with this Regulation.

In the case of stand-alone capture installations, the operator of the installation transferring CO₂ to the capture installation shall deduct the amount T_input from the emissions of its installation in accordance with Article 49.

B.2. Determination of transferred CO₂ U.K.

Each operator shall determine the amount of CO₂ transferred from and to the capture installation in accordance with Article 49 by means of measurement methodologies carried out in accordance with Articles 40 to 46.

Only where the operator of the installation transferring CO₂ to the capture installation demonstrates to the satisfaction of the competent authority that CO₂ transferred to the capture installation is transferred in total and to at least equivalent accuracy, may the competent authority allow that operator to use a calculation-based methodology in accordance with Article 24 or 25 to determine the amount T_input instead of a measurement-based methodology in accordance with Article 40 to 46 and Article 49.