The UKCCSRC hosts a variety of different reports, for organisations including the Environment Agency and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). In particular, we have numerous BAT Reviews and FEED Studies – please click on the links below for more information.
All these reports can also be accessed through this Reports Database
Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reviews
The UKCCSRC is involved in activities with the UK Environmental Regulators (Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Northern Ireland Environment Agency), industry and other stakeholders to help identify Best Available Techniques (BAT) for CCS-related technologies.
We host all these BAT-related reviews and resources.
Lessons from amine post-combustion projects
The National Audit Office’s Value for Money (VfM) report on the UK’s ‘Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage programme’ identifies the centrality of demonstrating VfM in the decisions about offering, or not offering, public money to CCS projects. The UKCCSRC held a stakeholder workshop at the National Audit Office, London, on September 5th 2024, looking at the question “What lessons need to be captured from amine post-combustion projects to enable costs to come down in the future?”.
Delivering Cost Effective CCS in the 2020s
The UKCCSRC held a series of meetings in 2016-17, which were attended by private sector companies, public sector bodies and UK researchers to identify and address actions that need to be taken in order to deliver a CCS based decarbonisation option for the UK. The workshop identified interesting challenges to overcome as well as some potential solutions, and was followed by six regional meetings which addressed both region specific and “typical cluster” issues.
Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge
The Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge supports the UK’s drive for clean growth by enabling the six largest industrial clusters to decarbonise at scale. These regions—the Humber, Teesside, North West, Scotland, South Wales, and the Black Country—account for one-third of all UK business and industrial emissions.
Through £210 million in public funding matched by over £260 million from industry, the programme is building the essential infrastructure—including regional CO2 transport networks and hydrogen supply chains—required to transition these vital economic hubs toward a Net Zero future. This foundation allows heavy industry to switch to low-carbon fuels and securely store emissions.
FEED Studies
Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies are a vital pre-project planning phase used to establish a project’s objectives, scope, and technical constraints. These studies confirm product specifications, hardware requirements, and contingency costs while identifying potential risks prior to the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) phase.
We host the comprehensive FEED study packages, including key milestones and deliverables, for the following projects:
Ervia – View project information →
Next Generation Capture Technologies
AECOM and the University of Sheffield were appointed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) – now the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) – to conduct a review of next generation capture technologies and an analysis of selected options. This was to support the UK Government’s ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution, with the delivery of the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) between April 2021 and March 2025.
The review considered the potential application of capture technology to different industrial, waste and power sites.
UKCCSRC Research Needs Workshops
The UKCCSRC has hosted a number of industry- and policy-led “What are our research needs?” workshops.
These workshops were intended to inform UK researchers and identify the key research needs, linked to the scope of the UKCCSRC Flexible Funding calls.
The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Community (UKCCSRC) is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Energy Programme.
The mission of the UKCCSRC is to ensure that carbon capture and storage (CCS) plays an effective role in helping the UK achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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