Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent steps her Department has taken to support the development of carbon capture and storage for industrial processes and manufacturing.

DECC and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have jointly taken a number of steps to support the development of industrial carbon capture and storage.

In 2014 the Government commissioned and published a techno-economic study (“Demonstrating CO2 capture in the UK cement, chemicals, iron and steel and oil refining sectors by 2025: A Techno-economic Study by Element Energy, PSE, Imperial College London and University of Sheffield”) which identified the most relevant technologies for industrial CCS in each sector that can be implemented by 2025, alongside their costs and technology readiness levels.

DECC and BIS held workshops with stakeholders from energy intensive industry, CCS industry and academics in November 2014 to review the findings of the techno-economic study.

DECC funded the Tees Valley Unlimited local enterprise partnership to undertake a series of feasibility studies into an industrial carbon capture and storage scheme for the Tees Valley industrial cluster, capturing carbon dioxide from four industrial installations: SSI steel, BOC hydrogen, Growhow ammonia and Lotte plastics. The results were published in July 2015.

In March 2015, DECC and BIS jointly published the results of the eighteen month collaborative Industrial 2050 Roadmaps project (by Parsons Brinckerhoff and DNV-GL) covering the iron vand steel, cement, chemical, ceramics, glass, paper and pulp, food and drink, and oil refining sectors. The results concluded that industrial carbon capture and storage technologies could deliver over 20 million tonnes CO2 abatement per year by 2050, in particular from the iron and steel, cement, chemical and oil refining sector.