CCSA: Seizing the UK’s CCUS Opportunities

Experts from the Carbon Capture & Storage Association explain how the UK’s CCUS market is looking The UK stands on the brink of an industrial transformation. Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s series of energy-related commitments, including the Clean Power 2030 Mission and his COP29 announcement late in 2024, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81% from 1990 levels by 2035, show the government’s ambition to reshape the nation’s energy and industrial landscape is clear. Achieving these targets requires bold action, and carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) must be at the heart of the transition. Read more: What is CCUS? The UK government has been clear that the only way to protect future generations from the climate crisis is to deliver their mission of making Britain a clean energy superpower. To that end, while the UK’s transition to renewable energy has made great strides, certain industries – cement, glass, and chemicals – cannot decarbonise through electrification alone. Cement production, for example, releases unavoidable CO₂ emissions through the chemical process of calcination. Strategically important sectors, which provide materials...