EPSRC Funding for Four CCS Research Projects As part of the Research Councils UK Energy programme, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has awarded £3.27m to four research projects to study the geological viability and safety of storing CO2 underground in depleted North Sea oil and gas fields or saline aquifers... 'Baseless Scaremongering' over CCS Funding Dismissed A £1bn fund to prove the benefits of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology will not be axed in the imminent spending review... Britain Reject Tough CO2 Cut Target for Power Sector British lawmakers on Tuesday rejected an amendment to the coalition government's Energy Bill which would have locked the power sector into tough carbon cuts from 2014, two years earlier than planned, and limited new gas plants being built after 2020... Land Use Not Problematic for Biomass with CCS Says UK Institute The use of biomass to produce electricity need not cause significant land-use tensions according to a new policy statement by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers... SaskPower and United Kingdom Announce Joint Research Programme for CCS The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) and SaskPower have established a joint initiative to link practical experience on SaskPower’s Boundary Dam project with a wide-ranging academic carbon capture and storage research programme... CO2 Storage beneath North Sea Promoted Experts from academia, government and industry have signed a collaborative research agreement that will provide invaluable knowledge to reduce risk and guide the development of commercial multi-user offshore storage sites for carbon dioxide... Aker Solutions to Perform Tests of Cement Industry CO2 Capture Aker Solutions has won a contract to test and study the capture of carbon dioxide from flue gas emitted by the cement industry... CCS Report Recommends Next Steps for CCS in the UK The final report from the Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Reduction Taskforce confirms that UK fossil power stations with carbon capture, transport and storage, have the potential to be cost competitive with other types of low carbon power generation... Funding And Networks Key to Cutting CCS Costs Carbon capture and storage projects need sound funding mechanisms and collaboration on networks to develop and de-risk the industry, a cost reduction taskforce has concluded... Hunt on for CCS Sites The Crown Estate is launching a ‘UK CO2 Storage Development Group’, which will be charged with identifying commercially and technically viable carbon capture and storage sites... All News