Closed consultation

Decarbonisation readiness: updates to the 2009 Carbon Capture Readiness requirements

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Published: 13 March 2023

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

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Summary

We are seeking views on our proposals for updates to the 2009 Carbon Capture Readiness requirements.

This consultation ran from
9:45am on 13 March 2023 to 11:45pm on 24 April 2023

Consultation description

In July 2021, the UK government and Welsh government published a joint call for evidence seeking views on updates to the 2009 Carbon Capture Readiness requirements, including:

• ensuring new build and substantially refurbishing combustion power plants have viable decarbonisation pathways
• applying the requirements to more combustion power plant technologies and sizes
• introducing the option to comply with the requirements through hydrogen conversion
• moving the requirements from the planning regime to the Environmental Permitting regime

This consultation builds on the call for evidence by setting out our formal proposals for decarbonisation readiness, alongside a summary of responses to the call for evidence. The proposals outlined in this consultation will apply to England only.

We have published a draft impact assessment here, and Carbon Capture Readiness and hydrogen readiness of electricity generators technical studies alongside the consultation.

Documents

Decarbonisation readiness: updates to the 2009 Carbon Capture Readiness requirements

PDF, 652 KB, 67 pages

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Decarbonisation Readiness Draft Impact Assessment

PDF, 459 KB, 18 pages

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Published 13 March 2023