The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has heard from carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) experts and industry figures who warned that the government is not being ambitious enough with its CCUS implementation plans. In the hearing on Thursday 17 January, Dr Geraint Evans, CATCH Advisor, told Stephen Kerr MP that he did not think that the government’s CCUS deployment pathway, published in November 2018, had a great enough ambition to hit the Committee on Climate Change target of 60 to 100mn tonnes of carbon being captured by 2050. Cadent’s Andy Lewis added: “I think that you have to start to look to deploy projects between now and 2025. That probably has to be a minimum of two projects and the ambition should be higher if we believe the cost is as low as we think it is.”
