CCS

Industrial decarbonisation: Aldersgate Group calls for 'clear plan of action' to slash emissions from heavy industries

Policy

Industrial decarbonisation: Aldersgate Group calls for 'clear plan of action' to slash emissions from heavy industries

Government should publish detailed policy framework to help drive low carbon investment in heavy industry following recent industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen strategies, sustainable business group warns

clock 09 September 2021 • 6 min read
Could UK gas power stations still play a role on a net zero grid?

Energy

Could UK gas power stations still play a role on a net zero grid?

Aurora Energy Research contends thermal power generation equipped with hydrogen and CCS offers most cost-effective pathway to a net zero power system

clock 16 August 2021 • 7 min read

Supply chain

'Exciting but challenging': Britain's glass industry unveils 2050 net zero vision

British Glass sets out potential decarbonisation pathways based on renewables, hydrogen, CCS, and greater recycling levels

clock 20 July 2021 • 3 min read

Infrastructure

'Creating a Zero Carbon Cluster': BusinessGreen to host new webinar on the UK's trailblazing carbon capture plans

Free to attend register to be hosted next week in association with the Northern Endurance Partnership, Zero Carbon Humber, and Net Zero Teesside

clock 08 July 2021 • 2 min read

CCS

SSE and Equinor plot new 900MW carbon capture gas power plant

Energy firms estimate project could capture up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 from the new gas power plant each year

clock 11 May 2021 • 3 min read

Technology

Carbon Clean and BayoTech plot CO2 capture and hydrogen demonstration plant

Small-scale CCS and hydrogen specialists to evaluate, design and operate a demonstration plant by end of 2022

clock 06 May 2021 • 2 min read

Energy

Will innovating the retail market help drive a transition to net zero?

By 2050 the UK must replace almost all current electricity capacity and build at least as much again in order to meet climate goals – this can only be funded on the basis of robust business models, explains Atkins Global's David Cole

clock 15 April 2021 • 4 min read

Energy

'World first': SSE and Equinor plot major blue hydrogen power plant in Scunthorpe

Partnership will explore whether SSE's under-construction Keadby 2 gas-fired power station could be ‘progressively decarbonised’ through hydrogen blending

clock 08 April 2021 • 5 min read

Infrastructure

Do the UK's hydrogen ambitions risk being 'captured' by fossil fuel companies?

Fossil fuel firms are increasingly eyeing up plans for blue hydrogen production, but think tank E3G fears the nascent sector risks locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure and jobs

clock 29 March 2021 • 7 min read

Infrastructure

'Denial and delusion': Green groups slam government refusal to rule out new North Sea oil and gas exploration

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions

clock 24 March 2021 • 9 min read