Call for evidence outcome

Future policy framework for power with carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): call for evidence

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 25 July 2022
• Last updated: 23 August 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

This call for evidence has closed

Read the full outcome

The future policy framework for the delivery of power with CCUS: government response

PDF, 366 KB, 33 pages

Detail of outcome

The government response provides a summary of respondent’s views on the following areas covered in the call for evidence:

• competitive allocation design for power with CCUS
• the evolution of the business model used to support power with CCUS
• the development of the power with CCUS sector and supply chain
• how power with CCUS could operate under future market arrangements

It also sets out the government response to the views and evidence provided and sets out actions that have been taken and next steps.

This response will be of interest to CCUS stakeholders, including investors and developers in potential CCUS projects, the energy sector, industry and electricity consumers.

We received 22 responses:

• 11 from industry
• 5 from public sector organisations
• 3 from trade association bodies

The remaining responses were from academia, a government delivery partner and a Charitable Foundation.

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Original call for evidence

Summary

We're seeking views and evidence on how to support the future deployment of power with carbon capture, usage and storage.

This call for evidence ran from
11am on 25 July 2022 to 11:45pm on 17 October 2022

Call for evidence description

This call for evidence seeks views and evidence on how government can best support the continued deployment of power with CCUS projects into the 2030s beyond Track-1 of the Cluster Sequencing process.

Topics covered include:

• competitive allocation design for power with CCUS
• the evolution of the business model used to support power with CCUS
• the development of the power with CCUS sector and supply chain
• how power with CCUS could operate under future market arrangements

For the purposes of this call for evidence, ‘power with CCUS’ refers to dispatchable gas-fired power generation with CCUS. We are engaging separately on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

This call for evidence will be of interest to:

• anybody involved in, or impacted by, the development of power with CCUS projects
• those interested in the decarbonisation of the electricity sector as whole

Read the BEIS consultation privacy notice.

Documents

Call for evidence on the future policy framework for the delivery of power with carbon capture, usage and storage

PDF, 348 KB, 32 pages

Published 25 July 2022
Last updated 23 August 2023 + show all updates

1. 23 August 2023

   Government response published.

2. 25 July 2022

   First published.