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Recommendation 25
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Department's CCUS strategy prioritises cost-efficient geographical clusters for diverse industrial sectors
Recommendation
The Department’s approach to date has been focused on rolling out CCUS to geographical clusters. The Department told us that its cluster–based approach makes sense in terms of cost–efficiency as fewer and shorter pipelines need to be built and because there will be multiple emitters at each cluster that can use the same transportation and storage infrastructure.83 To support this approach, the Department has focused on developing business models to support the deployment of CCUS in a range of sectors: heavy industry; in the production of blue hydrogen; in the waste sector (such as producing energy from waste); on power generation; for greenhouse gas removals; and BECCS.84
Government Response
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