The direction is clear with ambitious 2030 targets and climate-neutrality by 2050. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon removal technologies are needed for Europe to reach these targets, enabling industrial decarbonisation, contributing to economic growth, sustaining current jobs and creating new ones. In recent months we have seen many positive announcements for cooperation on cross-border CO2 infrastructure, the basis for CCS in Europe and vital to achieve the climate objectives.
The webinar will take place on Zoom. If you are interested in joining this webinar, register here.
In this webinar, we will tackle questions such as:
With the following experts:
The event will be moderated by Per-Olof Granström, Secretary General, Zero Emissions Platform and EU Director at CCSA.
Note: This webinar is organised jointly with the Zero Emissions Platform.
This webinar will take place on Thursday 9th March, 14.00 – 15.30 GMT.
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On the 30th November, the CCSA hosted a members-only webinar on “Updates from Rotterdam and the Porthos project”.
A recording of the session can be viewed here and the slides are available below.
The webinar featured the following speakers:
On the 21st October, CCSA held a briefing webinar for members with BEIS on the recently opened IETF Phase 2: Autumn 2022 competition.
A recording of the session can be viewed here and the slides are available below.
On the 7th July, the CCSA hosted a webinar in association with Net Zero Week 2022. This webinar focussed on ‘CCUS and Net Zero – UK and global progress ahead of COP27″
The webinar recording can be found here, and the slides are available below.
Last year at COP26, Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) was at the forefront of many conversations and discussions, with a focus largely on the necessity of industrial CCUS and negative emissions technologies such as Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) and Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS).
Over the past six months there have been a number of developments in CCUS – both in the UK and around the world:
The UK now has a stated ambition for CCUS to deliver the first two CCUS clusters by the mid-2020s with a further two by 2030. To deliver this ambition, the UK Government launched the “CCUS Cluster Sequencing” process which, in October last year, selected the first projects that will be taken forward.
The CCSA published its “CCUS Delivery Plan 2035” in March this year, setting out the CCUS industry’s recommended pathway to deliver the Government’s Net Zero Strategy ambition of storing 50 Million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2035.
And as we turn our attention to COP27 in Egypt in November, it is worth reflecting on global CCUS developments over the last decade and the increased focus on CCUS clusters and networks.
This webinar provided an opportunity to hear from a number of experts on UK and global climate targets and their views on the CCUS roll-out pathway that will be needed to ensure we can meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
We were joined by a number of speakers, including:
We were happy to host the LCCC to run through the CfD elements of the Industrial Carbon Capture (ICC) Contract and Dispatchable Power Agreement (DPA), with representation from the BEIS DPA team to assist with the discussion on the DPA. The objective of the session was to help provide members with an understanding of the fundamentals of the CfD and some of the key contractual terms proposed in the recent publications from BEIS.
We are pleased to announce we will be hosting a briefing webinar for members with BEIS on the recently opened IEFT Phase 2: Summer 2022 competition on Monday 27th June 2-3pm.
This will allow members to hear in detail about the IEFT phase 2 competition window, how stakeholders can apply for funding, as well as ask any questions to BEIS during a Q&A session at the end.
On the 28th April, the CCSA hosted a webinar in association with Green Infrastructure Week 2022. This webinar focussed on ‘Delivering CCUS Infrastructure for the Net Zero Transition’.
The webinar recording can be found here, and the slides are available below.
Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) will be critical to the UK’s net zero transition and levelling up agenda. CCUS plays an essential role in the decarbonisation of vital industries (such as steel, cement and refining), power and hydrogen, as well as providing a key route for greenhouse gas removals through Direct Air Capture with Storage (DACS) and Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS).
The Government announced in its Net Zero Strategy an increased ambition for CCUS; to capture and store 20-30Mt CO2 per year by 2030 and 50Mt per year by 2035, to form the foundations for future investment and potential export opportunities.
Mature CO2 Transport Networks and storage infrastructure are critical for the deployment and expansion of CCUS clusters. This infrastructure can connect dispersed sources of CO2 from around the UK and internationally to UK storage sites, enabling multiple industries to share infrastructure, thereby delivering significant emissions reductions and economies of scale.
This webinar will give you the opportunity to hear from CCSA CEO Ruth Herbert on the CCSA’s CCUS Delivery Plan 2035 project – which sets out the industry view of the build-out rates for CCUS in the UK to deliver the ambition of storing 50Mt CO2 per year by 2035, whilst considering the key enabling actions that are required to facilitate this growth. The webinar will also feature presentations from David Holman, Storegga; Aniruddha Sharma, Carbon Clean and Joanna Campbell, National Infrastructure Commission, on the importance of developing CCUS clusters, CCUS at dispersed sites and the urgent need to develop CO2 transport and storage infrastructure to ensure the roll-out of CCUS in line with Net Zero.
Note – this webinar is for CCSA Members Only
The webinar recording can be found here, and the slides are available below.
A “Carbon Takeback Obligation” (CTBO) would require extractors and importers of fossil fuels to dispose, safely and permanently, of a progressively rising fraction of the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by their activities and, crucially, the products they sell. That fraction would rise to 100% by the year of Net Zero, 2050.
CTBO has advantages of simple governance, speed, and controllability: equivalent carbon prices under a CTBO are reliably capped by the cost of direct air capture and storage, by ensuring deployment keeps pace with continued fossil fuel use, reducing the risk of punitive carbon prices or more draconian measures being needed to drive out the final tranche of emissions. When combined with measures to reduce CO2 production in the near-term, a CTBO could deliver a viable pathway to achieving net-zero emissions consistent with 1.5°C by mid-century.
CTBO was discussed at COP26, with the conversation focussing on the paper “Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: An affordable backstop climate policy”. The webinar provided an opportunity to learn more about the CTBO and to inform a CCSA position.
We were delighted to be joined by 4 great speakers:
The webinar recording can be found here, and the slides are available below.