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Carbon Capture and Storage

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 54710, tabled on 24 November 2016

Question

Fiona Bruce
Conservative
Congleton
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what research the Government is conducting on carbon capture and the energy-making process.

Answer

Jesse Norman
Conservative
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Commons

Answered on

29 November 2016

Since 2015, Government has spent approximately £11 million on a range of carbon capture projects supporting research and development in CO2 storage, carbon capture technologies and CCS feasibility studies.

The Department has also commissioned research into the potential of carbon capture and utilisation in the UK and the next generation UK based carbon capture technologies. These will complete in 2017. Additionally, the Government Energy Entrepreneurs Fund has funded approximately £1.6 million in support to innovative carbon capture technologies.

Phase 5 of this Fund opened on 30 October 2016. This is an additional £9 million of funding which is available for CCS innovation projects. Further information can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-entrepreneurs-fund-phase-5.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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