
sCO2-FLEX
sCO2-FLEX will contribute to Europe’s climate change and energy transition goals by making fossil fuel energy production more capable of supporting a smarter and more flexible energy market.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 764690

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The aim is to adapt fossil-fuel power plants to the future energy system requirements. Conventional plants could foster the integration of renewable energy sources (such as wind and solar) by off-setting their intermittent nature providing fluctuating back-up power and helping stabilize the grid. However, these plants are not currently fit to undergo huge power output fluctuations, as requested in future scenarios with increasingly higher shares of renewables.
sCO2 based technology has the potential to meet EU objectives for highly flexible and efficient conventional power plants, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, residue disposal and, above all, water consumption. The project aims at building expertise on sCO2 for electricity generation and EDF is also interested in investigating its possible application to renewables such as CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) and biomass.
