CCS funding

E.ON and the EPSRC have announced an award of £6.9m of research funding to four university-led projects investigating carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.

CCS is a process that allows carbon dioxide to be captured from power stations and then stored underground to prevent it from entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists and engineers are making continuous advancements on the technology to hopefully make fossil-fuelled generation a lower carbon source of energy.

Project teams led by the universities of Nottingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Leeds will investigate combustion and CO₂ capture and transport technologies that could help make a crucial step towards meeting UK and global emission reduction targets.

‘CCS is the most important technology we have in the fight against climate change - if we can get it right then we can look forward to a secure, low carbon energy future for the UK,’ said Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON UK.