Carbon Capture and Storage

(asked on 14th April 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Alan Brown Portrait
Alan Brown
(Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what money has been allocated to the (a) Acorn, (b) Hynet and (c) East Coast carbon capture scheme cluster.

Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
This question was answered on 19th April 2023

The Government is supporting industrial clusters to develop their Front End and Engineering Design (FEED) studies, for the deployment of CCUS and other decarbonisation infrastructure, through the provision of £171 million of funding via the UKRI-led Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge (IDC). This includes:

  • HyNet: c. £32.8m;
  • Acorn: c. £31.3m;
  • ECC: c. £86.2m.
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