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European investment atlas of potential CO2 storage sites

Pays one project up to EUR 5 million to build a digital atlas ranking Europe's potential CO2 storage sites for investors, in support of the EU's 2030 storage target.

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The Commission doesn't want a fresh survey built from nothing: the winning project is expected to build directly on the existing European CO2 Storage Atlas and the ongoing GSEU project update to it, and can also draw on the Commission's own Energy and Industry Geography Lab tool rather than assembling equivalent data from scratch. Beyond simply labelling each site's storage readiness level, the at…

The Commission wants a digital atlas of 'investable' underground CO2 storage capacity across the EU and Associated Countries, updating the existing European CO2 Storage Atlas, to help meet the Net Zero Industry Act's target of storing 50 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030. Proposals should assess and compare storage and injection capacity across regions, label each site by its 'storage readiness level', and identify priority regions for further appraisal.

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Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€5M

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