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<p>The Government is committed to supporting the development of carbon capture, usage
and storage (CCUS) in the UK. CCUS has the potential to support us in meeting our
2050 emissions target and support our Industrial Strategy.</p><p>Our CCUS Action Plan,
published in November 2018, sets out our view that CCUS has a potentially essential
role in supporting the decarbonisation of the UK’s economy, reducing emissions from
the heavy industry, transport, power and heating sectors.</p><p>On 27 June we announced
that nine companies have secured £26 million of government funding, in addition to
industry backing, to advance the rollout of carbon capture, utilisation and storage
(CCUS) in the UK - a crucial step towards the UK’s net zero emissions and the end
of the UK’s contribution to global warming. It is the next milestone for the Government’s
ambition for the UK to be a world-leader in the field as laid out in the Clean Growth
Strategy and the CCUS Action Plan.</p><p>One company, Tata Chemicals is being awarded
£4.2m toward the construction of a facility to capture and utilise 40,000 tonnes of
carbon dioxide a year – the equivalent of 22,000 cars. When fully operational in 2021
it will be the largest carbon capture plant in the UK, removing 100 times more carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere than the country’s current largest facility.</p><p>Our
Clean Growth Grand Challenge Mission sets an ambition to establish at least one low-carbon
industrial cluster by 2030, and the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster
by 2040. The Mission is technology neutral but is focussed on technologies that can
be delivered cost-effectively through the use of shared networks, and CCUS is one
of the key technologies that could help to deliver the mission.</p><p>Also supporting
the mission, the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund is a £315m fund aimed at helping
industry to transition to a low-carbon future. The fund will help companies cut their
energy bills and carbon emissions through investing in energy efficiency and low-carbon
technologies. This could include supporting technologies that are strategically important
to long-term emissions reductions such as CCUS and Hydrogen.</p>
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