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Carbon Capture and Storage: EU Grants and Loans

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Question for Department for Energy and Climate Change

UIN 18630, tabled on 3 December 2015

Question

Angus Brendan MacNeil
Scottish National Party
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much EU funding was allocated to the operation of carbon capture and storage projects which is not now available for spending on UK projects.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Andrea Leadsom
Conservative
South Northamptonshire
Commons

Answered on

14 December 2015

In 2009 the Don Valley Project was awarded a €180m European Energy Programme for Recovery grant which contributes towards the feasibility and design phase of the project's development. The award is still in place and ~€125m has so far been claimed. In 2013 the White Rose CCS project was awarded up to €300m in potential NER300 funding. This award, which remains available, is subject to the project being able to successfully store carbon dioxide before the end of June 2020.

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