CCUS

Following The House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee’s report titled Carbon capture usage and storage: third time lucky? Scottish Carbon Capture Storage (SCCS) have responded with its thoughts on the future...

Last month, Carbon Engineering, a Canadian clean energy company announced the completion of an equity financing round of $68m, marking the largest private investment made into a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company to date.

Aker Solutions has signed an agreement for delivery of carbon capture and liquefaction at Twence’s waste-to-energy plant in Hengelo, the Netherlands.

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced up to $20m in federal funding for cooperative agreements to help accelerate the deployment of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS).

The US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected two additional projects to receive $5m federal funding.

Energy and Clean Growth Minister, Claire Perry, has announced the formation of a new Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) Advisory Group.

Global engineering company Aker Solutions has been selected by Preem, Sweden’s largest fuel company, to perform tests and studies of its carbon capture technology at Scandinavia’s biggest oil refinery.

The Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise have each committed £50,000 to support the UK’s largest research, industry and government partnership in carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS).

Energy firm Drax has started capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the combustion of 100% biomass feedstock at its power station in the UK – a first anywhere in the world.

The UK could have the world’s first ‘net-zero carbon’ cluster of heavy industry by 2040, thanks to up to £170m of new funding announced at COP24 climate talks in Poland today.