CCS Summit
(L: CCS Summit opening session. R: (pictured l-r) Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, Keynote speaker former Lousiana Senator Bennett Johnston
Indiana’s energy needs grow every year. The facts and the forecasts are clear -- our demand for energy, specifically electricity, is outstripping our production. In addition, 75 percent of our energy expenditures, approximately $14 billion annually, leave the state in exchange for coal, natural gas, and oil. That is why Indiana has developed and is aggressively implementing Hoosier Homegrown Energy, the State’s strategic energy plan. The plan seeks to grow Indiana jobs and incomes by producing more of the energy we need from our own natural resources, while encouraging conservation and energy efficiency. The plan recognizes that only a broad approach that includes increased energy efficiency, alternative and renewable energy, and clean coal, will secure our energy future.
New regulations regarding the way energy is produced, used and delivered in the US are being debated at the national and international levels. Increasingly there is consensus that whatever laws and regulations emerge from this debate, there will be a need for Indiana to develop and deploy new technologies to reduce carbon emissions, particularly those generated by our use of coal. That is why Indiana has been a national leader in developing and deploying clean coal technologies. Building on the success of Indiana’s efforts to develop clean coal technologies, Indiana is seeking to lead the nation in establishing long term plans for the capture and sequestration of carbon (CCS). To this end, the state wishes to develop the legal and associated regulatory framework necessary to deploy CCS in Indiana.
Governor Mitch Daniels invited a select group of policy, regulatory, and scientific experts from around the country to take part in the Indiana Carbon Control and Sequestration Summit to investigate regulatory and legal issues surrounding Indiana’s leadership in developing new ‘clean coal’ energy technology and related carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS) challenges. The summit was held September 3-4 in Indianapolis.
Presentations
September 3, 2008
Session: CCS - Purpose and Implementation
Regulatory Framework, Legal Precedents and Technology
Moderator: Indiana State Senator Beverly Gard
Jim Dooley, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Battelle
Magnitude of Challenge, Source Sink Matching, Risk [Natural Resource, Financial, Legal, Health], Leakage, Non-Generation Sources
John Thompson, Clean Air Task Force
Comparative Carbon Mitigation Strategies, Pipelines for EOR, ‘Costs’ of Transport of CO2
Session: CCS – Applied Technologies
Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies and Techniques
Moderator: John Rupp, Indiana Geological Survey
Jared P. Ciferno, National Energy Technology Laboratory:
Capture Technology & Costs
Julio Friedmann, Lawrence Livermore National Lab:
Requirements for Geological Storage
John Tombari, Schlumberger:
Carbon Dioxide Storage in Indiana
September 4, 2008
Session: High Level Review of Existing Regulatory and Legal Models
Moderator: David Hardy, Chairman, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
Lawrence Bengal, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission:
State Regulatory Initiatives; CCS
Kenneth Richards, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University:
State Regulatory Issues: Property, Tort
Chiara Trabucchi, Industrial Economics:
State Regulatory Issues: Financial and Legal Liability
A full report based on the five breakout work sessions will be available soon.
