Why UK steelmakers have cooled on carbon capture

Cecilia Keating
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Why UK steelmakers have cooled on carbon capture

Despite initial optimism about the role CCS technology could play in steel sector decarbonisation, the UK steel industry appears to have shelved the idea - BusinessGreen takes a look at why

Plans to deploy carbon capture technology to decarbonise the UK's steelmaking industry have been shelved, in the near term at least, after the economics of installing technology to stop carbon emitting...

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