The recent sale by NRG of their 50% stake in the Petra Nova CO2 capture facility for a paltry $3.6M, less than 1% of its construction cost, suggests that the economics of CO2 capture for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) at […]
Twenty CO2 capture projects have been named that have met the eligibility criteria for the BEIS Phase 2 selection process, out of forty-one applicants. These will now proceed to the due diligence stage of the Phase 2 Cluster Sequencing process, […]
The research paper from one of our Flexible Funding 2020 projects has recently been published – “Preliminary study of CO2 frost formation during cryogenic carbon capture using tomography analysis”. Dr Carolina Font-Palma and team investigated a cryogenic carbon capture method […]
After five years of research activity, the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Research Programme has now come to an end and published a series of policy briefs disseminating its findings and insights. As highlighted in the UK Climate Change Committee’s recent report to parliament, […]
A recently published paper from Clair Gough and Sarah Mander explores the opportunities for, and progress in, establishing a social licence to operate (SLO) for CCS in industrial clusters in the UK, focusing on the perspectives of key stakeholders. SLO […]
Yesterday, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released a number of announcements, reports and documents focusing on the CCUS Innovation competition and wider work by AECOM for BEIS reviewing ‘Next Generation Carbon Capture Technology’. Of particular interest […]
We’re delighted to share with our community the publication in Nature of UKCCSRC Deputy Director Paul Fennell’s article, ‘Cement and steel – nine steps to net zero’, co-authored with Justin Driver, Christopher Bataille and Steven J Davis. To achieve net […]
As part of the cluster sequencing process, BEIS has listed the projects eligible to move to the next stage of Phase-2 of the Cluster sequencing process. BEIS received submissions for power, industrial carbon capture (ICC) and hydrogen to connect onto […]
We’re delighted to share news from one of our core research team, Dr Clair Gough and colleagues Muir Freer, Andrew Welfle and Amanda Lea-Langton on their new paper “Putting Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage in a Spatial Context: What […]
We’re delighted to share with our community the publication of the new paper, ‘Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: An affordable backstop climate policy’, from Prof Stuart Haszeldine, UKCCSRC Deputy Director, co-authored with Stuart Jenkins, Eli Mitchell-Larson, Matthew C […]
An international group of researchers, including UKCCSRC Director Prof Jon Gibbins, has carried out in-depth analyses of the climate impact of blue hydrogen. The study confirms that blue hydrogen, produced from natural gas and using carbon capture and storage processes, […]
Our Director, Prof Jon Gibbins, has provided written evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry, Technological Innovations and Climate Change: Negative Emissions Technologies. The Environmental Audit Committee is conducting an overarching inquiry looking at technological innovations which could contribute to […]
The US Infrastructure Bill includes a number of significant measures to support CCUS. In line with the growing understanding, globally, of the critical role of ‘plumbing’ for CO2 disposal in underpinning CCUS clusters, the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and […]
Our Director, Prof Jon Gibbins, recently gave a presentation at Humber Zero’s Waterline summit on 19 October 2021. Here we’re sharing his slides, Rapid development of CCUS: infrastructure and innovation, and a recording of the event over on the Sparq […]
Hear our Director Prof Jon Gibbins’ thoughts on today’s key announcements on the Net Zero Strategy and the Track 1 CCUS clusters: “The Net Zero Strategy released today gives excellent scope for CCUS to show what it can do. The […]
We’re thrilled to announce that the Centre has received funding from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Energy Programme, to continue its work until September 2025, in the form […]
Our Director Jon Gibbins is one of two University of Sheffield academics (alongside Dr Claire Corkhill), to be appointed as independent experts to the Energy Working Group of the Green Taxonomy Advisory Group, assisting BEIS and HM Treasury with the […]
From Jon Gibbins, UKCCSRC Director, Professor of CCS University of Sheffield Dan Welsby, James Price, Steve Pye and Paul Ekins in their paper ‘Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world’ have done a very good job of telling the […]
From Jon Gibbins, UKCCSRC Director, Professor of CCS University of Sheffield: To support the launch of the UK’s hydrogen economy initiative, estimates for GHG emissions from blue hydrogen production were issued by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial […]
By Professor Jon Gibbins, UKCCSRC Director The key message from a recent paper on blue hydrogen production from natural gas, which has attracted some media attention, should be that it is a good description of how NOT to do it. The authors […]
BEIS has just published a report on a series of regional CCUS public perceptions dialogues, Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): public dialogue. Our Deputy Director for Systems and Policy, Dr David Reiner, was co-chair (along with Prof Nick Pidgeon […]
The UKCCSRC is pleased to announce the proposals that were awarded funding in our recent Flexible Funding 2021 call, which closed in April 2021. The call was for proposals to a fixed budget amount up to £30k, or up to […]
UKCCSRC members Prof Jon Gibbins from the University of Sheffield and Dr Mathieu Lucquiaud from the University of Edinburgh have prepared a BAT review, which has in turn fed into the Environment Agency’s new guidance, Best Available Technique (BAT) guidance for Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture Using […]
BEIS have this month published a suite of important announcements, policy papers and calls for submissions that are relevant to our CCS community. Congratulations also to IDRIC, which has been awarded £20million for a research and innovation centre, via UKRI. […]
The Royal Society has this week published a series of briefing for policymakers on 12 science and technology areas, and we’re happy to share that our Deputy Directors, Prof Stuart Haszeldine (Storage), Prof Paul Fennel (Capture) and Dr David Reiner […]
Our Director Prof Jon Gibbins has been quoted in the Telegraph in an article by Morgan Meaker on carbon capture and storage. You can read the article here, or see our image below.
Our Director, Prof Jon Gibbins, has contributed to a new report, Technology Brief on Carbon Capture, Use and Storage, by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which was published yesterday, Wednesday 3rd March 2021. The United Nations warns that […]
Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Network+ recently launched online, opening its membership to stakeholders across the foundation industries sector. Supported by funding from EPSRC, the TFI Network+ will assist the foundation industries to remain competitive whilst simultaneously tackling challenges from environmental […]
We’re pleased to share details of the latest technical review paper on large-scale CO2 shipping and marine emissions management for carbon capture, utilisation, and storage, from a team at Cranfield consisting of Hisham Al Baroudi, Adeola Awoyomi, Kumar Patchigolla, Kranthi […]
Today, 10th February, see the opening of the government consultation on Cluster Sequencing for Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage deployment. The consultation builds on various government announcements and publications around CCUS, and is seeking views on a potential mechanism for […]
We’re delighted to share with our community the publication of Dr Solomon Brown’s new paper, Transient CO2 capture for open-cycle gas turbines in future energy systems, co-authored with Mathew Dennis Wilkes and Sanjay Mukherjee from the University of Sheffield (also […]
As part of the REX-CO2 project, funded by ACT, a questionnaire has been developed seeking to collect views on the potential for re-using existing oil and gas wells for CO2 storage. The aim of the REX-CO2 project is to increase the […]
The UKCCSRC welcomes the urgency given by the Committee on Climate Change to the deployment of a wide range of CCS applications. The 6th Carbon Budget Report sets challenging carbon dioxide reduction targets for the UK and these translate into […]
The UKCCSRC is pleased to announce the proposals that were awarded funding in our recent Flexible Funding 2020 call, which closed in February 2020. The call was for proposals to a fixed budget amount up to £30k, for which grants […]
We’re delighted to share news from Salman Masoudi Soltani on the publication of his new research paper, Influence of surface modification on selective CO2 adsorption: A technical review on mechanisms and methods, funded via the UKCCSRC Flexible Funding 2020 call. […]
We’re delighted to share news from Jen Roberts on the publication of her new research paper, funded in part by the UKCCSRC International Collaboration Fund. The new paper by Jen Roberts (Chancellor’s Fellow in Energy. Department of Civil and Environmental […]
We’re delighted to share the publication of a new report, A Trans-European CO2 Transportation Infrastructure for CCUS: Opportunities & Challenges, produced on behalf of the Advisory Council of the European Zero Emission Platform (ZEP) for which Prof Haroun Mahgerefteh was […]
We’re delighted to share some very exciting news from one of our core research team, Dr Clair Gough, on her report as part of On Net Zero, the latest publication from Policy@Manchester. Clair, along with colleague Dr Andrew Welfle, wrote […]
We’ve had some exciting news through from our colleagues at SCCS: A new study by scientists from Scotland and Malaysia has provided insights into the role of natural mechanisms within rocks deep below ground for securely storing anthropogenic carbon dioxide […]
We’ve had some great news from Dr Richard Porter and Prof Haroun Mahgerefteh of University College London! An exciting new EU H2020 project called C4U has been launched for developing two promising solid-based CO2 capture technologies for the iron & […]
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