Enfinium pledges up to £800 million for CCUS at Ferrybridge

Energy-from-waste generator Enfinium today promised new investment of up to £800 million in carbon capture (CCUS) technology, centred on one of its four UK...

Iona Capital invests in biogenic CO2 pioneers Carbon Capture Scotland

Low carbon investors Iona Capital have taken a stake in Carbon Capture Scotland, one of the UK’s leading firms in carbon capture and use. CCSL's...

North Sea stashes: Authority issues first permits to sequester carbon

Fourteen high volume storage operators learned today they’ve received 21 licences between them to pump CO2 and other greenhouse gas pollutants into voids under...

Energy groups welcome government’s biomass strategy

Seven trade groups representing suppliers & customers of biomass-based heat & power have welcomed the government’s plans to speed up Britain’s adoption of biomass...

Hunt’s ‘sustainable’ label for nuclear angers green campaigners

Jeremy Hunt’s designation in his spring budget of nuclear as a “sustainable” electricity source has provoked anger from environmental campaigners. The chancellor made the re-classification...

CCUS “backed by government’s £20 billion” to head Hunt’s energy Budget, Treasury briefs

Twenty-year Government incentives promoting carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) will reportedly headline benefits to the energy sector in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget on Wednesday. The...
SSE's Keadby power station: 735MW back online from 9 November.

Planners green-light Britain’s biggest battery, and first CCUS plant in Lincs

Innovative generation projects on opposite sides of Britain have this week received planning approval, speeding innovation in the nation’s dispersal and deployment of practical...

CCUS being adopted ‘far too slowly’, says McKinsey

Worldwide deployment of carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) technology needs to accelerate by as much as 120 times current rates of outlay, if...