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National Grid calls for Carbon capture ambitions
have been revived
carbon capture project

funding by next year

NATIONAL GRID HAS mechanism until next year,
backed the government’s reports The Telegraph.
bid to reignite the carbon National Grid made its
capture industry with a call call for fast-tracked carbon
to fast-track funding for capture funding in a new
new projects to as soon report which found that Ministers revived the Capture & Storage
as next year. Ministers “action is needed now” to UK’s carbon capture, Association, said that since
have already pledged develop the low-carbon utilisation and storage the publication of the
£100 million to research gas sources which are (CCUS) ambitions late last government’s Clean Growth
technology that can strip needed to keep to climate year after its billion-pound Strategy in October,
carbon dioxide out of change targets. funding competition to fit there has been “a sense
industrial emissions, but The group has called for two coal power plants with of renewed momentum”
the FTSE 100 operator said pilot projects to be identified the technology collapsed within the industry.
funding for specific projects in order to begin undertaking two years ago. “We strongly
should emerge in 2019. full studies by the early The new scheme will support National Grid’s
The government is 2020s and be operational by focus on helping to cut recommendation that the
currently developing new the mid-2020s. harmful greenhouse gas first CCUS projects must be
plans to help fund carbon “We acknowledge that emissions from heavy in operation in the 2020s.
capture projects in the the future is uncertain industry and heating which Industry and government
same way it has helped and these timelines are will continue to use carbon- must now work together to
support the roll-out of an attempt to indicate rich methane for decades, deliver a CCUS deployment
renewable power projects, how the future could play according to National Grid. pathway that enables the UK
but it is not expected to out,” a spokeswoman for Luke Warren, Chief to benefit from this critical
reveal the new investment National Grid said. Executive of the Carbon technology,” he said. ■

Hydrogen-powered transport key the first intercontinental

flight in 2040. By 2070,
to climate targets, says Shell the majority of trucks will
be powered by hydrogen
or batteries, as Tesla is
planning.
PLANES AND TRUCKS stronger action on global Shell believes the gas could Shell sees oil demand
powered by hydrogen will warming, has mapped out account for 10 per cent of stagnating in the 2020s,
be a crucial part of efforts how the world could hit the global energy consumption followed by gas demand
to cut carbon emissions to Paris climate deal’s target by the end of the century, falling rapidly from 2040
safe levels, according to oil of keeping temperature according to The Guardian. as competition from
giant Shell. rises below 2°C. The company’s Sky renewables bites.
For the first time, the While development of scenario envisages that as Many power grids will
Anglo Dutch firm, which hydrogen cars has stalled fossil fuel use declines, old be forced by legislation to
is facing calls by activist in the face of rapid growth oil and gas facilities will be become entirely run off
shareholders to take in battery-electric vehicles, repurposed for hydrogen solar, wind and hydro power
storage and transport. by 2040. But the biggest
Shell has no large scale impact from governments
hydrogen production will come from carbon
but is a major player in taxes or prices put in
natural gas, from which place by 2030 across rich
hydrogen can be made. countries and China.
The company launched its Industry watchers noted
first hydrogen refuelling that the Sky scenario would
point in the UK last year still see temperatures rise
Hydrogen cars could account and opened a second in to around 1.7-1.8°C, above
for 10 per cent of energy use March at a service station the Paris accord’s goal of
by the end of the century in Buckinghamshire. pursuing efforts to limit
The scenario envisages rises to 1.5°C. ■

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