On Sunday, May 17 2015, the mayor of the city of Ketzin/Havel, opened an exhibition of the GFZ Centre for Geological Storage CGS in the tourist centre and museum of the city, on the storage of CO2 at pilot site Ketzin.

In the presence of numerous guests and visitors mayor Bernd Lück underlined the importance of the pilot site beyond its scientific aspects: „The successful scientific work brought numerous national and international guests to the pilot site in Ketzin and thereby promoted the city internationally“. Dr. Axel Liebscher, leading scientist at CGS, emphasized the trusting and constructive but at the same time critical supervision and collaboration within the project with citizens and politicians of the city of Ketzin: „Without this trusting but critical collaboration of the different stakeholders, scientific pilot projects and field experiments like those in Ketzin are not conceivable.“

Already since 2004 GFZ scientists work on the storage of CO2 in deep-lying rocks. At pilot site Ketzin all phases of CO2 storage are run through for scientific purposes. The injection of CO2 was started in June 2008 and ended in August 2013. During this time period, an overall amount of about 67.000 tons of CO2 were securely brought underground. Since August 2013 the pilot site is in its post injection phase. The monitoring methods at Ketzin are among the globally most extensive ones used for CO2 storage and added essential knowledge to the topic of securely run underground storage of CO2.

The exhibition at pilot site Ketzin runs until September 20, 2015.