Funding available to identify new CO₂ storage sites in the North Sea

DECC has made up to £2.5m funding available to deliver a new CCS project to identify the next phase of CO₂ storage sites in the North Sea. 

The £2.5m is new funding from DECC’s Innovation Fund and will be delivered by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).

This project will build on the UK’s potential for storage in the North and Irish Seas to make it into a reality and keep us at the forefront of developing CCS. 

ETI willl issue a call for propsals by the end of December with a deadline of the 5th February 2015, read more about it here.