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Foreword
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has announced the
signing of contracts for UK’s first carbon capture project. The East Coast
Cluster based in Teesside is now set to start construction of carbon capture,
usage and storage (CCUS) infrastructure later this year. This is latest
milestone in the CCUS roadmap launched by the Government in December 2023. The
road map covers two Track-1 projects, the East Coast Cluster alongside HyNet,
and two Track-2 projects, Acorn in Scotland and the Viking cluster in the
Humber. Last October, the government approved £21.7bn in funding for Track-1
clusters, providing the financing for the construction work.
The pioneering deals between the government and Northern Endurance
Partnership mean that the construction is now set to start in mid-2025. The
supply chain contracts worth £4bn in investment will directly support 2,000
jobs in the North East, and possibly tens of thousands more across the UK. NEP
is the designated operator for transporting and storing CO2 captured
through the project, the partnership was created through a joint venture
between Equinor, BP, and TotalEnergies. The opening of the facilities is
expected in 2028, with the infrastructure able to transport and permanently
store up to an initial 4 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
NEP has successfully completed its first environment
statement for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the UK, marking the
first for such a project...
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- Labour climate group urges
government to rethink support for biomass plant
- Open Letter: A united
call for integrating carbon removals into the Clean Industrial Deal
- WTO confirms validity
of EU climate-based actions in renewable energy dispute brought by Indonesia
Markets
- Glanua acquires UK-based Marches Biogas
- Exploring the EU’s Bioenergy landscape:
key to competitiveness and strategic autonomy
Research & Development
- Building materials could store more than 16
billion tonnes of CO2 annually
- Contributions of countries without a carbon neutrality target to
limit global warming
- NREL celebrates another year of groundbreaking research
Biomass Heat and Power
- The UK’s clean power mission: Delivering the prize
- Value of Stormont woody
biomass contract leaps to £7.25m
- More...
Energy from Waste
- Tougher
rules to restrict new waste incinerators
- Fear
over £110m 'industrial' energy centre in park
- Nicor
Gas celebrates its first renewable natural gas interconnection
Biogas
- Eskilstuna
Biogas AB will start the construction of a biogas project to process food and
agricultural waste to create Renewable Energy
- Lewisham council extends
partnership with bio capital for two years
- More...
Carbon Capture
- Contracts signed for UK’s first carbon capture projects in Teesside
- UK carbon capture and storage project shows how to leap regulatory
hurdles
- More...
Events
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