CCUS

CBI: The UK faces 'ticking clock' to grasp £57bn green growth opportunity

Policy

CBI: The UK faces 'ticking clock' to grasp £57bn green growth opportunity

Britain's biggest business group urges all political parties 'press the accelerator' on net zero or risk falling behind the US, EU, and China

clock 16 July 2023 • 9 min read
UK CCUS? How to build a 'homegrown' carbon capture and storage sector

CCS

UK CCUS? How to build a 'homegrown' carbon capture and storage sector

A series of announcements from industry, developers, and land owners suggest the UK's carbon capture industry is on the march

clock 12 July 2023 • 8 min read
Companies awarded 20 licenses to develop carbon storage sites under UK seabed

CCS

Companies awarded 20 licenses to develop carbon storage sites under UK seabed

North Sea Transition Authority hails 'huge net zero boost' as it awards first round of carbon storage licenses to a dozen firms

clock 18 May 2023 • 4 min read
Government to draw up 'treasure map' to gauge UK undersea CO2 storage potential

CCS

Government to draw up 'treasure map' to gauge UK undersea CO2 storage potential

Fresh regulatory powers to be granted to North Sea Transition Authority requiring oil and gas firms to report on potential CO2 storage capacity

clock 09 May 2023 • 3 min read
Carbon capture 'Lego': The inside story of the UK start-up aiming to unclog the CCS pipeline

CCS

Carbon capture 'Lego': The inside story of the UK start-up aiming to unclog the CCS pipeline

The founder of Carbon Clean sets out how the company's box-based carbon capture technology could help firms build a greener future

clock 12 April 2023 • 10 min read
All aboard the train to zero: UK's first carbon capture rail link planned in England's north east

Rail

All aboard the train to zero: UK's first carbon capture rail link planned in England's north east

Energy from waste operator Enfinium teams up with liquid storage provider Navigator Terminals to draw up plans for UK's first carbon capture rail corridor linking industrial sites in North Yorkshire and Teesside

clock 29 March 2023 • 2 min read
'Bridge to a low-carbon future': SSE fires up Europe's 'most efficient' gas power station, eyes CCS expansion

Infrastructure

'Bridge to a low-carbon future': SSE fires up Europe's 'most efficient' gas power station, eyes CCS expansion

SSE flexible generation and energy storage arm brings Europe’s latest gas-fired power station on stream at its site in the Humber

clock 16 March 2023 • 2 min read
Budget 2023: Green announcements at a glance

Taxation

Budget 2023: Green announcements at a glance

From carbon capture and nuclear funding to Investment Zones and plans for a new Net Zero Strategy - here is our all-you-need-to-know green business guide to the Spring Budget 2023

clock 15 March 2023 • 9 min read
Spring Budget: Chancellor promises action on carbon capture and nuclear in 'clean energy reset'

Politics

Spring Budget: Chancellor promises action on carbon capture and nuclear in 'clean energy reset'

Jeremy Hunt confirms plans to provide £20bn of support for carbon capture projects and deliver small modular reactor funding competition, but Budget address offers little to wider green economy

clock 15 March 2023 • 7 min read
The inside story of OCO Technology: The aggregate company that has been removing carbon for over a decade

Technology

The inside story of OCO Technology: The aggregate company that has been removing carbon for over a decade

Could the unglamorous world of aggregates hold the key to both decarbonising construction and removing CO2 from the atmosphere?

clock 08 March 2023 • 10 min read