My presentation at the Common Future Paris 2015 Climate science conference on industrial low-carbon innovation and how US ARPA-E and EU ETS NER 400 could be linked to accelerate decarbonisation in energy intensive sectors

1. Joint Crossing of the Valleys of Death
Tomas Wyns, Researcher IES, tomas.wyns@vub.ac.be
Common Future Paris 2015, Paris, 9 July 2015
Accelerating the commercialisation of low-carbon breakthrough technologies

2. Decarbonising Industry
Breakthrough technologies

3. 2 valleys of death
Technological Commercialisation
R&D Pilot Demo Mature
Reference: Jenkins et al. 2011

4. NER 400 - EU ETS
• 2009 - now
• Early Stage
• R&D to pilot
• Energy (RE, Storage)
• Metals
• Bio-based industry
• Awards USD 500k to 1
million
• Budget: USD 400 million
• Successor NER 300
(2013-2020)
• EU ETS auctioning
revenues
• Demo to commercialisation
• Renewable energy,
industry, CCS
• Operational as from 2021
• Budget: EUR 9 Bn
• Implementation, criteria tbd
Problem: demo to
commercialisation
funding gap
Problem: Risk of
limited, low quality
project pipeline

5. Complementarity
ARPA-E NER 400
R&D Pilot Demo Mature
Project pipeline
Commercialisation finance

6. Challenges/ideas
• Governance structure/design for managing NER
400
• US Manufacturing only condition under ARPA-E
(IPR) has to be relaxed for application in EU
• Mirror this with EU Manufacturing only condition
under NER 400 and relax for ARPA-E related NER
400 projects
• Twin-demo projects (US-EU)

7. Examples (I)
HIsarna, Tata steel
• -20% GHG ref. BAT
• Concept proven
• durability test 2016
Infinium (aluminium)
• no carbon anodes
• 50% energy reduction
• proven at small scale

8. Examples (II)
Azotic, N-fix
• 50% reduction in fertiliser
use
• Same yield (staple crops)
• Field tests ongoing
Cepi, 2 team project
• multiple breakthroughs
• 80% GHG reduction by 2050
• Game changer for industry