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CAS, BP ink agreement on commercialization of clean energy

Jan 21, 2008

A framework agreement to undertake a feasibility study into a proposed Clean Energy Commercialization Centre (CECC) joint venture was inked between CAS and BP on 18 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.

BP and CAS believe that the commercialisation of clean coal conversion and other clean energy conversion technologies will make an important contribution to China's future energy security whilst also helping to reduce CO2 emissions and address China's future energy security and environmental sustainability issues. A full time working team drawn from both BP and CAS has been established to progress the feasibility study and the joint venture contract, with the aim of establishing the CECC joint venture by the end of 2008.

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