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The UK Office of Carbon Capture and Storage (OCCS) has published its Industrial ...

The UK Office of Carbon Capture and Storage (OCCS) has published its Industrial Strategy on the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) across the UK. The aim of the newly formed OCCS - which is part of the Department for [Energy and] Climate Change (DECC) and sits alongside the Office for Nuclear Development (OND) and the Office for Renewable Energy Deployment (ORED) - is to facilitate the delivery of CCS as a key carbon abatement technology in the UK, and help to promote its rapid deployment globally. The CCS Industrial Strategy envisages the industry to be worth up to £6.5bn in the UK, and sustain up to 100,000 jobs by 2030. Yorkshire and Humber has been elected as the UK’s first low carbon economic area for CCS and Scottish and Southern Energy has been awarded £6.3mn for a 5-MW carbon capture project at the Ferrybridge power station, Yorkshire. The CCS Industrial Strategy sets out how the UK can make the most from its knowledge and skills in engineering, geology and the subsea sector and become a centre for CCS innovation and business. Other regions like Teesside, Merseyside and Thames Valley could also become centres for the technology. The government has an Energy Bill before parliament to provide funding for four commercial-scale CCS demonstration projects. Funding was announced in March for front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies as part of a competition to build one of the world’s first commercial-scale CCS demonstration plants.
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