The UK’s carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) industry is moving from concept to construction, with financial close reached for the first UK projects and momentum growing across Europe, delegates attending the Carbon Capture and Storage Association’s (CCSA) annual conference have heard in London.
Michael Shanks, the UK’s Minister for Energy in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, said the UK government was in “build, baby, build” mode and referenced his recent visit to . The site will capture around 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from its existing cement works as part of a strategy to make ‘net zero cement’. It was one indication that projects are getting off the ground, he said.
Meanwhile 141 miles away in Norfolk, in the east of England, on the Hewett field, in the southern North Sea, has started for the Bacton CCS project.
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