Today, the BEIS Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage (CCUS) Cost Challenge Taskforce, on which Sandbag sits, has published its report to Government, with recommendations on how the UK can begin deployment of this vital technology for tackling climate change. Back...
Category: CCS
How will the UK cut carbon in the 2020’s?
The Clean Growth Strategy covers the whole economy – but reducing coal and gas in electricity generation is still where the bulk of the emissions cuts fall out to 2032
Overhauling UK energy – An ambitious new proposal for power, heat and industry
The deadline for UK coal phaseout is looming and the remaining 6GW of coal capacity on the grid must be replaced. Meanwhile, options for cutting emissions from the heat (gas) network have yet to make significant progress. In response to the National Infrastructure...
CCU-fuels are not renewable
30th NOVEMBER UPDATE The Commission published its proposals for the Renewable Energy Directive today as part of the EU's Winter Package. You can read them here. Disappointingly, a loophole that allows non-renewable CCU-fuels to contribute to the EU renewables target...
Paris means negative emissions
Brexit may mean Brexit, but Paris means negative emissions. Today, as the global agreement enters into force, governments and civil society must act in concert to deploy carbon negative technology. If governments worldwide are serious in their Paris Agreement plans...
Oxburgh report shows a bright future for UK CCS
Sandbag welcomes the publication of the Oxburgh report today, commissioned by the previous Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, showing the path towards a strong Carbon Capture and Storage industry in the UK. The report claims that commercial CCS projects...
Will cross-party consensus on CCS in the Energy Bill survive into the Commons?
Monday January 18th is the all-eyes on the Commons day for the Sandbag team, with the Energy Bill coming to its second reading, which marks an important moment in the development of UK’s energy and decarbonisation policy. This Act has already developed significantly...
Polish industry looks forward to the New Year’s opportunities
We hope you are spending your last days before Christmas as busily as we are! Last weekend Sandbag was invited by the Polish Economic Forum to Karpacz, on the Polish-Czech border, to speak about low carbon technologies for industrial growth. The agreement in Paris...
UK pulls rug from under the CCS industry
The government's decision to quietly drop the UK’s £1 billion Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) competition is a devastating blow to the technology, and throws the UK’s plans for decarbonisation into disarray. In the Fourth Carbon Budget, the...
Nowy rząd Polski ma przed sobą dużo większe wyzwania niż polityka klimatyczna UE
Wyniki wyborów są już oficjalne. Prawo i Sprawiedliwość zdobyło wystarczającą ilość miejsc w parlamencie, aby rządzić samodzielnie - precedens od 26 lat. Największym wyzwaniem dla nowego rządu jest zapewnienie ekonomicznie opłacalnego modelu dostaw energii....