The promise was made in a declaration handed over in Brussels to EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs by sixty electricity company chief executives (CEOs).

The CEOs, meeting in Brussels to discuss key energy issues said that this objective will mean deploying all economic low-carbon power generation options including nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. They called on Piebalgs and his fellow European policymakers to ensure a framework conducive to attaining these objectives, including more support for CCS demonstration.

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