Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much public funding is being provided in 2014-15 for research and development projects examining industrial carbon capture and storage.

The Government and its partners (the Energy Technologies Institute, Technology Strategy Board and Research Councils) are investing £125m in the current spending period (2011-15), in around 100 CCS research and development projects. Many of these projects are researching aspects of transporting, utilising and storing carbon dioxide – research which is equally relevant to carbon capture projects on both power generation and industrial emitters.

Full details of individual projects can be found on our website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-carbon-capture-and-storage-r-d-programme-2011-2015-list-of-projects

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Department of Energy and Climate Change jointly commissioned a techno-economic study of Industrial Carbon Capture for Storage and Capture for Utilisation in October 2013 to assess the technical potential and likely costs of applying different CO2 capture technologies to a range of energy intensive industries. This was published in May 2014 on our website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/co2-capture-in-the-uk-cement-chemicals-iron-steel-and-oil-refining-sectors.