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Carbon capture and storage

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24/5/2023 Feature / New Energy World

CCS offers Humber a new pipeline to prosperity

The Viking Humber carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has the potential to become a leading UK initiative, integrating the decarbonisation of key industry sectors with advanced carbon emission handling infrastructure and transport providers. The ambitious project is focused on delivery and storage of one third of the UK target of 30mn tonnes of CO₂ capture by 2030. New Energy World reports.

Carbon trading / pricing

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2/10/2024 Feature / Angela Hepworth

Advancing carbon removal: why BECCS methodology is having growing impact on CCUS globally

Earlier this year, leading bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) developers Drax and Stockholm Exergi released a methodology for BECCS-derived CO₂ removal (CDR) credits to ensure a high standard of integrity. Angela Hepworth, Commercial Director at Drax,* explores the methodology and how this development will positively impact the global CDR market.

Chemicals

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24/1/2024 Feature / McKinsey’s Chemicals Practice

Finding the formula for chemical sector recarbonisation

Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases is essential for chemical companies to remain competitive. Investing in feedstock sources and conversion technologies can help close the gap to net zero. So writes a team* representing views from McKinsey’s Chemicals Practice.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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28/2/2024 Feature / Dave Roberts

Helping deliver the Tees Valley’s net zero ambitions

The UK’s Tees Valley has long been home to major heavy industrial and petrochemicals manufacturing sites. But is now also home to the Teesside University’s Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre, which aims to help the emergence of several low and zero carbon initiatives including carbon capture, direct air capture and hydrogen. The University’s Dave Roberts writes.

Aviation fuel

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21/2/2024 Feature / Lighthouse Green Fuels

Tees’ green kerosene

Dr Simon Owens, Technical and Engineering Director of Alfanar Energy, outlines the company’s plans to build in Teesside what it calls Europe’s largest advanced second-generation facility in the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply chain, which takes material from bio-sourced feedstocks.

Skills, education and training

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30/4/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

On the front lines of the skills shortage

A four-storey carbon capture plant installed in a university building trains the next generation of engineers about measurement and process control, while the latest generation of instruments provides data aimed to ease their workloads. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple goes back to college to learn more.

Carbon capture and storage

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2/9/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Solid, gas and liquid: how carbon capture in cement production is becoming a concrete idea

A Norwegian cement plant has become the first to implement full-scale carbon capture, but developers of an alternative process aim to demonstrate a better way of removing carbon from the solid powder production line from emitted flue gas – with the possibility of later liquefaction, reports Will Dalrymple, Senior Editor, New Energy World.

Biomass

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20/11/2024 Feature / Michelle Meineke

The ‘push-pull’ debate around using biomass

Is biomass an environmentally-friendly component of the energy transition amid net zero targets or adding to emissions? There’s no simple answer, explains sustainability consultant Michelle Meineke.

Energy from waste

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16/10/2024 Feature / Janet Wood

Trading down: Is the UK’s energy-from-waste sector ready to trade carbon emissions?

What are the implications of including energy-from-waste plants in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS)? Energy journalist Janet Wood examines how the UK emissions reduction scheme compares to that of the European Union (EU ETS).

Greenhouse gases

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9/4/2025 Feature / Lindsay-Marie Armstrong

Research update on... carbon dioxide removal technologies

Technologies such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), decarbonised steelmaking techniques and direct air capture (DAC) are investigated in this review article written by Lindsay-Marie Armstrong, Professor of Decarbonised Systems and Deputy Director of the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton. Below is an edited and abridged synthesis of UK research on the topic commissioned by the UK Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) over the last few years.

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Search results:

CCS offers Humber a new pipeline to prosperity

Advancing carbon removal: why BECCS methodology is having growing impact on CCUS globally

Finding the formula for chemical sector recarbonisation

Helping deliver the Tees Valley’s net zero ambitions

Tees’ green kerosene

On the front lines of the skills shortage

Solid, gas and liquid: how carbon capture in cement production is becoming a concrete idea

The ‘push-pull’ debate around using biomass

Trading down: Is the UK’s energy-from-waste sector ready to trade carbon emissions?

Research update on... carbon dioxide removal technologies