Further progress in clean energy partnership between CAS and BP
On behalf their respective organizations, CAS Vice President LI Jinghai and BP Group Chief Executive Iain Conn put their signitures on an agreement for the partner selection and technology roadmap principle for the Clean Energy Commercialization Centre (CECC) on 16 July in Beijing.
The two sides reviewed with satisfaction the development of CECC over the past year. It is expected that the joint venture will formally open this coming November.
A framework agreement to undertake a feasibility study into a proposed CECC was inked between CAS and BP in January in Beijing, making a substantial step forward following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Shanghai last August.
Under the agreement, CECC is intended to integrate individual clean energy related technologies - coal gasification, coal to liquids, coal to chemical, carbon capture and storage, coal bed methane and underground gasification - from CAS institutes and other organizations both within and outside the PRC, into competitive integrated feedstock manufacturing and product distribution systems and solutions such as polygeneration complexes. The CECC would also serve as an international platform to foster collaboration among research institutes, enterprises and other institutions to improve indigenous Chinese innovation capabilities and market applications in areas such as clean coal conversion, zero emission and carbon capture and storage. BP and CAS have also agreed that the CECC would act as a cooperation platform between the two parties in order to support the development of the Sino-UK clean coal conversion related near zero emission initiative, including technology development and demonstration projects.
