Uncertainties with CCS law stop Vattenfall investment in demo plant
Due to the ongoing impasse in the German CCS law, Vattenfall now sees itself forced to stop plans for its CCS demonstration project in Jänschwalde. The company today announced the termination of the planned EUR 1.5 billion investment.The EU-supported project would have been operational by 2015/16, and would have demonstrated this climate-protection technology for the first time at a significant power plant scale. "We must unfortunately accept that there is currently insufficient will in German federal politics to implement the European directive so that a CCS demonstration project in