The contract was signed at the European Economic Congress in Katowice.
Both Fortum and PGE have their own ongoing development projects, which they are aiming to be included in the CCS demonstration programme of the European Commission. The Commission's goal is to start 10-12 large-scale CCS demonstration projects in member states starting from 2015.
The PGE Belchatow power plant in central Poland is Europe's largest, and the world's second-largest fossil-fuel-fired power plant with total installed power capacity of 4,440 megawatts (MW).
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