By Ben Pindar, Deputy Editor - Yorkshire Insider Drax Power Station chiefs have said they are optimistic about success in the government's carbon capture and storage competition as a major £100m investment programme at its North Yorkshire site...

Last night's Costing the Earth on Radio 4 covered the topic of coal and latterly CCS. You can find the link here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h6674 About 20 minutes in the programme disucssed costs and the figure of at least £70 per year...

The National Audit Office reported last month on the competition, cancelled in October 2011, to design, construct and operate the UK's first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage project. The competition was launched in 2007 by the then Department...

“What we do In addition to regulatory permission from the Government, developers require a lease from us to use the seabed for CO 2 storage. An AfL provides the time and rights for developers to obtain a licence from DECC, appraise the prospective...

A network of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects in Yorkshire is well-placed to win the £1bn competition which was announced today by the government’s Department for Energy and Climate Change, it was claimed today. Ed Davey, the Secretary...

Summary: 1. Samsung C&T agrees to take strategic 15 per cent stake in 2Co Energy’s Don Valley Power Project 2. The Don Valley Power Project will create thousands of UK jobs, boost national energy security and supply low carbon electricity to...

13th March 2012 By James Reed - Deputy Editor, Yorkshire, BusinessDesk.com ENERGY Secretary Edward Davey has urged firms to follow the lead of a Yorkshire power station as he launched a £20m competition to develop new carbon capture and storage...

Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon) (Con): I want to pay tribute to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and in particular to the Minister of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (Charles Hendry), for the work that is being done on carbon...

By Jack Blanchard Political Editor Published on Monday 5 March 2012 08:20 The Government has offered a clear hint that it is considering putting hundreds of millions of pounds towards a sprawling CO2 pipeline network for Yorkshire that would help secure...

By John Collingridge City Reporter Published on Tuesday 6 March 2012 07:57 POWER station operator Drax has shed more light on its plans for a pioneering ‘clean’ coal power plant in Yorkshire, which would create 1,250 jobs during its construction...

Dear All, For those who weren't able to see it, there was a good piece on CCS on the local edition of the Politics Show yesterday. You can find it here, 40 minutes in http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008hq2s . Also, there is likely to be more publicity...

MPs, industry experts and business leaders heard how Yorkshire and Humber holds the key to the future of carbon capture and storage (CCS), at a conference and dinner which was held on 3 and 4 November in Leeds. Attendees heard from the Office of Carbon...

The announcement of a Contract for Difference Feed in Tariff (CFD FIT) in last month’s Electricity Market Reform Government White Paper (EMR) is potentially a green light for CCS, but clarity on the Government’s level of support for CCS will...

Hi All,

I think the answer to my question is 'not really', and I'm interested to hear what you think.

We know that the first UK CCS demonstration project, launched in 2007, will be funded out of general taxation.  With the withdrawal of E.ON, the Scottish Power project at Longannet will win that competition - barring some unforeseen technical or logistical issue.  We also know that the government are still committed to bringing forward projects 2-4. We are still unsure when, but the government still appear to want to make a call for projects next year.  And we know that there will be another consultation on the CCS Levy in combination with revisions to the Climate Change Levy. That feels like a step backwards, but still heading in the right direction - if not at the pace we would like....

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Hi All While we wait to see how UK Government financing for CCS demonstration projects emerges from the Comprehensive Spending Review, a report has been published on the private sector potential for funding CCS projects. It has been produced by the Ecofin...

As many of you are aware the regional development agency is due to close on the 31st March 2012 with some responsibility for economic development being given to new Local Enterprise Partnerships. In an effort to shape the future of economic development...

Hi All, You may have noticed that DECC launched a call for evidence around their Pathways 2050 Analysis project. You can find the details here http://decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/lc_uk/2050/2050.aspx . I know it can feel that it is difficult...

Thank you to all those who took the time to participate in our stakeholder semiar last Friday. The aim of the event was to keep everyone informed of progress and future plans, and get thoughts of the audience on the direction we and our industrial partners...

Hi All, It was a pleasant surprise to see that the Prime Minister highlighted the ambition of the region to lead the world on CCS, in his speech in Shipley last week. If you've not read it you can find the text here . It's promising that the new...

The CCS element of the All Energy conference last week was split into two sessions; the first on emerging regulation and best practice and the second on project development. I was speaking at the end of the agenda in that latter session. There were still...

Welcome to the CCS Supply Chain Network and my very first blog. I'm Stephen Brown, the Director for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) here at CO2Sense and I'll be using this space to keep you up to date on the work we're doing and highlight...