The Prinos CCS project selected by DESFA is a promising way to advance this technology in our country by reducing its costs, as the group's managing director, Maria Rita Gali, emphasized at the Hydrogen & Green Gases Forum
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As she noted, Attica emits 9 million tons of CO2 per year and seizing quantities at an economic cost is extremely important. Greece has a lead in these areas, but a unified infrastructure is acritical element .
The Commission has underlined the importance of such an infrastructure in its strategy published at the beginning of 2024. Prinos has a storage capacity of 3 million tons per year, so it cannot theoretically cover Attica's 9 million tons.
For this reason, the development of a system equivalent to natural gas is being considered: Through pipelines the emissions reach a liquefaction unit, then to large ships and finally to Prinos and other storage units in Greece and abroad.
DESFA's plan has funding from the Recovery Fund and the group aspires to approval from the Commission in order to structure a solution that will lead to cost reduction, because this is the main issue at the moment.