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The Advanced Power Technology Forum (APGTF) provides the focus for the power generation sector in the UK on the research and development activities on fossil fuel, including biomass and waste, together with associated technologies including carbon sequestration.
This web site provides a resource for the dissemination of the activites of the APGTF and highlights meetings, events and publications relevant to the sector.
The objectives of the APGTF are to provide the focus in the UK on near-to-zero and zero emission technologies from fossil fuel, biomass and associated technologies so as to ensure that
- There is a continuing review of UK Energy R&D initiatives and informed contributions made to new programmes
- UK industry takes advantage of the global market opportunities in the first 2 decades of the century and positions itself for further opportunities out to 2050
- There is a significant contribution to UK wealth creation
- UK contributes to improved quality of life through reduced environmental impact, both nationally and globally
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First Announcement of 9th APGTF Workshop |
Workshop on Carbon Abatement Technologies for Fossil Fuels: Development and implementation of future UK strategyConference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London, 11-12th February 2009
The UK’s Carbon Abatement Technologies (CAT) Strategy, issued in 2005 and which looks out to 2015, has as its main objective “to ensure the UK takes a leading role in the development and commercialisation of CATs that can make a significant and affordable reduction in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use”. Announcement of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Demonstration Competition in 2007 ensured the UK was amongst the leading nations. Early rapid deployment of CCS technologies is now recognised as an important issue in meeting the climate change mitigation targets agreed across Europe and providing a serious option worldwide. As a result,other countries are now moving to meet a 2020 target for commercial deployment of CCS. If the UK is to continue in a leading role in CCS, the CAT strategy has to be revised and extended to ensure that the UK can also meet this 2020 target. In particular, there must now be more focus on full-scale deployment and this must be done with increased urgency. |
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