Visage Energy Corp. works with key industry executives to organize and host the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Stakeholders’ Collaborative Initiative. The initiative serves as a forum for presentations and discussions by authoritative stakeholders. The sessions allow mutual education and networking among state regulators and end users on the characteristics and benefits of CCS technologies, and their commercial viability. The periodic meetings make it possible for the participants to hear about and assess important trends shaping CCS policy and projects.
The CCS Stakeholders’ Collaborative Initiative works closed with the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) to foster an environment that encourages and accelerates the deployment of CCS as a carbon management tool.
The CCS Stakeholders’ Collaborative Initiative helps to foster public – private partnerships in an effort to develop a regulatory framework that encourages the
sharing of deployment costs among electric importing states and electric exporting states within a region. View the agenda and list of participants for the most recent meeting of the initiative.
In 2007, Visage Energy with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) spearheaded the first phase of the initiative - a California focused CCS Stakeholders’ Collaborative between the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), the CPUC, and three investor owned utilities. The participants were interested in gaining a better understanding of the benefits of CCS and addressing the barriers to deployment. The Collaborative was later expanded to include other state agencies such as the California Energy Commission, the California Department of Conservation, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the California State Water Board, and the California Independent System Operator. This focused approach is now being expanded to include neighboring electric-importing state Public Utilities Commissions in Washington and Oregon.
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