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Charlotte Hartley, Regulatory Pilot at Pale Blue
Dot Energy, looks forward to a new era for CCUS

or carbon capture usage and and industry are working much government’s Industrial Strategy,
storage (CCUS), 2018 was a pivot more closely together to move CCUS there also seems to be a clear shift
point in the journey towards forward. This is something that has in focus away from CCUS on power,
creating a truly commercial been reiterated by UK Energy and towards dealing with industrial
F industry in the UK. Many of those Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry emissions and clustering of carbon
who have been involved in this journey throughout the year and was again intensive industries that have shared
over the last decade (such as some of highlighted at the international decarbonisation infrastructure. This
us at Pale Blue Dot Energy) are growing Accelerating CCUS conference, in was recently backed up by a £170
cautiously optimistic that after several November 2018. million funding package to develop
false starts, CCUS might be getting back We saw some serious recommitment net-zero carbon industrial hubs.
on track in the UK, with the political to CCUS from both industry and Here, CCUS can now play a role
support required to help CCUS meet government with ongoing collaboration as one of a range of technologies
the country’s legally binding climate and joint working through the newly that will all be required to move
change targets. established CCUS Council and the industrial regions and other parts of
intense six-month Cost Challenge Task our economy towards net-zero carbon.
Government and industry working together Force (CCTF). One of the key CCTF This includes the introduction of
Since the launch of the Clean Growth recommendations was to bring down hydrogen generation with CCS to help
Strategy in 2017, the UK government the cost of CCUS through deployment unlock some of the particularly hard-
has put CCUS back on the energy and and learning by doing. to-decarbonise sectors. CCUS has been
environment agenda, taking a new and reframed in a more positive way as a
quite different approach from what has Industrial clusters technology to ensure protection and
been tried in the past. With clean growth as one of the growth of the UK’s industrial regions,
This time around, government four ‘Grand Challenges’ of the UK rather than an expensive bolt-on to

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