Carbon Capture and Storage

Technology

Net Zero: CO2 removal technology could make UK carbon neutral by 2050

Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society present blueprint for deploying greenhouse gas removal technologies, but urges rapid action to deliver on net zero goals

clock 12 September 2018 • 6 min read

Politics

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

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

clock 19 July 2018 • 3 min read

CCS

Norway seeks bids for North Sea CO2 storage contracts

Norwegian government invites companies to submit commercial bids for contracts to store captured carbon dioxide in reservoirs below the sea

clock 06 July 2018 • 2 min read

Biomass

'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal

Drax Power CEO Andy Koss talks to BusinessGreen about the firm's new carbon capture project and why new gas is needed to balance the ever cleaner power grid

clock 19 June 2018 • 10 min read

CCS

Study: Captured CO2 can be safely store for 'thousands of years'

New scientific analysis set to boost confidence in carbon capture and storage technology

clock 13 June 2018 • 1 min read

Policy

CCS 'milestone': Norway agrees backing for carbon capture, transport and storage projects

Government announces NOK 80m additional funding for 2018 to cover studies of CO2 transport, storage and up to two capture facilities

clock 15 May 2018 • 4 min read

Supply chain

Keeping carbon alive: How Covestro is pushing its supply chain to make more from CO2

Richard Northcote, chief sustainability officer at the chemicals giant, talks to BusinessGreen about oil alternatives and CO2 utilisation

clock 10 April 2018 • 9 min read

Policy

National Grid: Low carbon gas and CCS clarity needed to support clean growth

UK grid operator sets out long term vision for use of gas to decarbonise heat, transport and industry over the long term

clock 12 March 2018 • 5 min read

Technology

Offset reset? Climeworks secures 'historic' first contracts for CO2-sucking system

Swiss firm claims 'historic' deals mark the first time a company has been commissioned to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere

clock 19 February 2018 • 3 min read

R&D

CCS group captures £900,000 government grant

Consortium led by Carbon Clean Solutions will use cash for research into how to cut costs of carbon capture technology

clock 14 February 2018 • 1 min read