Achieving carbon capture and storage (CCS) projections in UK industry requires establishing more carbon dioxide (CO2) storage facilities and quick build-out of pipelines to connect to sites, according to a statutory report published today in the UK.
The Seventh Carbon Budget is a report from the UK’s Climate Change Committee, comprising a wide range of prominent experts. It states that CCS is important for tackling process emissions and should be targeted at industrial subsectors with limited alternatives. The report also notes that hydrogen will play ‘a small but important role’ in subsectors (ceramics, chemicals) which may find it hard to electrify.
“While CCS is limited to sectors where there are few or no alternatives, we cannot see a route to Net Zero that does not include CCS,” it states.
CCS will be used alongside hydrogen to enable long-term storable and dispatchable power in the electricity supply sector, in manufacturing low-carbon hydrogen and to underpin engineered removals.
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