Brussels, 20/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - Poland is preparing to set up the first industrial complex in the world that emits little or no greenhouse gas through the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and the Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC). The industrial site, which should be established in Kedzierzyn Kozle (Silesia) in 2015 via a consortium grouping Kedzierzyn, a company that produces nitrogen, and the energy company, Poludniowy Koncern Eergetyczny, will be composed of an electricity generating plant and an installation producing synthetic gas to be used for the needs of Kedzierzyn, which amount to over 700,000 tonnes annually, as well as for the manufacture of other derived gas products such as methanol. The complex should be a key instrument for Poland, which is compelled under Community climate policy to capture nearly 50% of total CO2 emissions of the Union in the next decade, allowing some 20 of the new carbon capture and storage technologies to be tested and for nearly 3 million tonnes of CO2 to be captured annually. (A.By./transl.jl)