Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of how many GW of carbon capture and storage capacity will be installed in the UK by (a) 2020, (b) 2025 and (c) 2030.

The Government is committed to helping realise the potential of Carbon Capture and Storage, and is investing £1bn to help commercialise it through the CCS Competition. The Government is currently providing the majority of funding for engineering and design studies for two UK-based projects which, if they were to proceed to construction, would result in the generation of around 0.6GW of carbon free electricity by the end of the decade.

DECC publishes scenarios for a range of technologies, including CCS, as part of its annual energy projections. The projections are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2014.