Mark Sommerfeld, UK Director at the CCSA, said:
“Building on the recent Spending Review, the CCSA welcomes the publication of the UK’s 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy and the Government’s continued commitment to Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) as a vital enabler of industrial decarbonisation, clean power and economic growth.
We are pleased to see that the strategy supports deploying essential CCUS infrastructure needed to establish a world-leading CCUS industry. This includes reaffirming construction funding to fill the storage capacity of the East Coast Cluster and HyNet, and development funding to progress the Acorn Project and Viking CCS to Final Investment Decision this Parliament.
CCUS is critical to protecting the UK’s industrial heartlands and will play a key role in delivering the Strategy’s regional growth ambitions—supporting regions like Teesside, the Humber, the Northwest and Scotland to thrive in a low-carbon economy. This is already taking shape through growing UK supply chains underpinning recently approved projects.
The CCSA and its members look forward to working with Government to turn this strategy into action. Doing so will require a clear timetable for delivery—building on recent Spending Review decisions—to provide the certainty needed to unlock long-term investment and job creation across the CCUS sector.”