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CCUS Taskforce: Government must act now if it wants affordable carbon capture

19 July 2018 • 3 min read

Government should have two carbon capture clusters up and running by the mid-2020s to secure least cost decarbonisation, Taskforce warns

A government-backed Taskforce appointed to analyse the best ways to bring down the cost of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) technology has urged the government to act now to ensure the approach...

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