Plans to trap greenhouse gases and store them under the sea will finally be approved as the government unveils its “clean-energy reset”.
Six carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on the east coast of England and Merseyside will receive £20 billion of funding over the next decade. They are likely to include the Keadby 3 gas-fired power station in Lincolnshire and the HyNet hydrogen power scheme in Liverpool.
Grant Shapps, the energy and net-zero secretary, will present CCS as a key part of Britain’s new industrial strategy and a successor to the dwindling North Sea oil and gas sector. He is considering making the announcement in Aberdeen or Hull and will also publish a detailed timeline for the approval of carbon capture programmes in Scotland.
