DigiMon: Towards Large-scale Deployment of CO2 Storage with Innovative and Societal Embedded Monitoring Techniques

In this webinar we elaborate on how we applied the Societal Embeddedness Level (SEL) methodology to study the societal embeddedness of CCS projects in Norway, The Netherlands, Germany and Greece.

We zoom into the local context of CCS projects and how a monitoring system can contribute to the societal embeddedness of CO2 storage projects in four local cases.

During the webinar we take you through the process of bridging social and technical sciences to get to monitoring requirements that embed technical as well as social aspects and the results this has led to.

This webinar is the last of three webinars presenting results of the ACT II DigiMon project.

The webinar is free but we ask you to register. Link for digital participation will be shared after registration.

Agenda

13:00 (CET): Introduction by Arvid Nøttvedt (NORCE)

• Introduction to the DigiMon project and webinar
  

13:15 (CET): SEL methodology by Marit Sprenkeling (TNO)

• Introduction SEL methodology
• Application SEL to CCS technologies
• Questions
  

13:30 (CET): Societal embeddedness of CCS and CCS monitoring by Dimitris Mendrinos & Spyridon Karytsas (CRES)

• Application of SEL methodology in Norway, The Netherlands, Germany & Greece
• Societal challenges and the role of monitoring
• Questions
  

13:55 (CET): Translating societal challenges into monitoring requirements by Danny Otto (UFZ)

• Interdisciplinary process combining technical and social aspects into design requirements for a societally embedded monitoring system
• Questions
  

14:20 (CET): Organisation and impact of interdisciplinary work in DigiMon by Marit Sprenkeling (TNO)

• Approach, outcomes and recommendations of the interdisciplinary process in DigiMon
• Questions
  

14:45 (CET): Dialogue: Towards the future

• Reflections and ideas participants on applicability of DigiMon outcomes for new CCS initiatives
  

15:00 (CET): Closing

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is unmissable for achieving our climate goals. However, deployment of CCS projects is a continuing and structural challenge, often slowed down due to societal challenges.

Over the last three years we have been working on how an affordable, flexible, societally embedded and smart Measurement, Monitoring and Verification (MMV) system for industrial-scale subsurface CO2 storage can contribute to societal embedded employment of CCS projects.

With an international consortium under the European Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT) initiative, the DigiMon project focused on the development and integration of system components for monitoring, available at intermediate to high Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs).

Through an interdisciplinary approach we explored how such monitoring systems could contribute to overcoming societal challenges towards commercial deployment of CCS and CCS monitoring.