CCSA comments on the Energy Bill – House of Lords vote on Ofgem’s duties to have regard to meeting net zero

18 April 2023, London

In response to yesterday’s vote in the House of Lords on the Energy Bill, Ruth Herbert, Chief Executive at the CCSA commented:

“We are delighted to see that the House of Lords voted in favour of updating Ofgem’s duties to include a specific requirement to have regard to meeting the UK’s net zero target. The CCUS industry has been pushing for this amendment alongside other low-carbon energy trade associations – working together to ensure the regulator is empowered to put net zero at the heart of their decisions.

This amendment will be particularly critical for CCUS, to enable the roll-out and expansion of significant CO₂ infrastructure this decade – to ensure we can meet the Government’s ambition of capturing and storing 20-30 million tonnes of CO₂ per year by 2030 which will be essential if we are to remain on the path to Net Zero.”

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The Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) and Endrava AS are combining forces to accelerate the deployment of decarbonisation solutions, particularly within the field of Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS).

Endrava will provide access to CaptureMap, a powerful map-based platform that identifies large CO₂ emitters, to the CCSA for its internal use. Additionally, current and new CCSA members will receive subscription discounts to CaptureMap, along with complimentary data analysis sessions.

CaptureMap was created five years ago as part of a project for Offshore Norge. Realising the utility of the tool and for the purpose of accelerating the pace of CCUS project development, Offshore Norge generously allowed Endrava to commercialise CaptureMap. The first user on board was the Northern Lights project (a JV between Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies), who effectively leveraged CaptureMap to build a list of potential point source CO₂ emitters in Europe for their transport and storage value chain.

Eric Rambech, co-founder of Endrava, expressed his excitement about the collaboration, saying, “Major energy producers and equipment manufacturers are already using CaptureMap. The collaboration with the CCSA is an important milestone in making CaptureMap known and available to even more actors in the value chain, creating a common platform of understanding for finding the best point source emitters for CCUS. We’ve been impressed with the skill, drive and success of the CCSA over time now, and are therefore thrilled to launch this collaboration together with them.”

Ruth Herbert, CEO of the CCSA commented on the exciting new collaboration, saying “CaptureMap is a fantastic tool that we believe could help support many of our members to identify and realise their customer base for future CO₂ infrastructure, thus enabling increased investment in further storage sites. Given the long lead-in times, early investment in CO₂ transport and storage assets will be vital to meeting demand for CCUS, which we expect to accelerate from the late 2020s onwards.”

To find out more about CaptureMap or to set up a free trial please visit the website at https://www.capturemap.no/.

For any further enquiries, or to access the member benefits, please contact Eric Rambech by email at eric@endrava.com

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Endrava:

Endrava is a Norwegian climate-tech company founded in 2016. We’re engineers by training, passionate about the use of public data to mitigate climate change. Our product is called CaptureMap: a map-based platform that shows large industrial CO₂ emitters globally. CaptureMap helps organisations find and focus on the best decarbonisation projects.

About the CCSA:

The CCSA is the lead European association accelerating the commercial deployment of CCUS. We work with members, governments and other organisations to ensure CCUS is developed and deployed at the pace and scale necessary to meet net zero goals and deliver sustainable growth across regions and nations.

The CCSA currently has over 100 member companies who are active in exploring and developing different applications of carbon capture, CO₂ transportation by pipeline and ship, utilisation, geological storage, and other permanent storage solutions, as well as members from management, legal and financial consulting sectors.

To find out more about the Carbon Capture Storage Association (CCSA) please visit the CCSA website at http://www.ccsassociation.org.