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21st Special Report - Carbon capture usage and storage: third time lucky?: Government Response to the Committee's Twentieth Report

Published 20 September 2019

Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) inquiry Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to 20th Report - Carbon Capture Usage and Storage: third time lucky?.

This is the government's response, published 20 September 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government states that it agrees with the Committee that CCUS can support decarbonisation and that the UK has an opportunity to be a global CCUS leader, while setting out its own timetable rather than the Committee's earlier dates.

  • On timing, the Government's plan is to enable the first UK CCUS facility, "commissioning from the mid-2020s", as the first step towards deployment at scale in the 2030s "subject to the costs coming down sufficiently".
  • It committed to publish its response to the July 2019 consultation on CCUS business models "by the end of the year".
  • On industrial opportunities, it states that it "agrees with the Committee's recommendation" on prioritising CCUS for international demand, and says it is investing over £50 million in innovation to March 2021.
  • On funding models, it says its review "considers the appropriateness of separating funding models" for capture from transport and storage, including a regulated asset base model.

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