As the global economy gradually transitions away from fossil fuel energy sources, carbon storage in geological formation emerges as one of the most promising technologies for offsetting the release of the greenhouse gas CO2 to the atmosphere and curbing greenhouse?gas emissions. The research group of Dr. Jyotirmoy Mallik (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISER Bhopal) in collaboration with CSIR–NGRI, recently got funded for the prestigious Clean Energy Transition Partnership (Joint Call 2024 | CETPartnership) to drill India’s first CO2 storage well. This will be a continuation of Dr. Mallik’s existing project titled ‘PERBAS’ (Permanent sequestration of gigatons of CO2 in continental margin basalt deposits - PERBAS) funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) where the major framework has already been developed for selection of CO2 injection site in Deccan mainland basalt. As part of this collaborative project we are going to lay the groundwork for large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) in basalt—a vital leap toward India’s net-zero ambitions within 2070. For more details, kindly visit https://cetpartnership.eu/calls/joint-call-2024
