Last week, the Prime Minister confirmed funding for two carbon capture projects in Merseyside and Teesside, and he and the Chancellor made a headline commitment to £21.7 billion of support for carbon capture and storage (CCS) over the next 25 years. This long-term commitment represents continuity from the position of the previous Conservative government, which, in 2023, pledged £20 billion over 20 years.
The announcement of project funding today is actually the culmination of a long process going back to the 2021 Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, and before that to the revival of Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) in the wake of a disastrous cancellation of a demonstration project in 2015.
This blog post is not about CCUS itself. Rather, it is about how much information about how policy decisions are made, including those about CCUS, is put in the public domain. In the period since 2015, energy policy making has become worryingly less transparent.
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