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Carbon capture, usage and storge (CCUS) and hydrogen projects are among key initiatives to gain investment as part of the government’s new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, announced today. The strategy is “an ambitious blueprint” to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and includes over £1bn of funding to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals. To kick start the process, £171M from the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge has been allocated to nine green tech projects in Scotland, South Wales and the North West, Humber and Teesside in England, to un...

Deputy Editor, Current± The government has set out a blueprint to switch 20TWh of the UK industry’s energy supply from fossil fuel sources to low carbon alternatives, as part of its £1 billion Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy. To "kick start" this transition, the energy secretary today announced that £171 million from the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge has been allocated to nine green tech projects around Britain. Additionally, £932 million has been directed to 429 projects across England as part of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, which will fund low carbon heating s...

By Jordan Marshall2021-03-17T13:21:00+00:00 Industrial decarbonisation strategy reveals details of project spending across the country  The government has unveiled details of a £1bn plan to drastically cut emissions from industry and the built environment over the next 15 years. Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has revealed the new industrial decarbonisation strategy, which aims to cut carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2035 and by 90% by 2050, compared with 2018 levels. Source: shutterstock.com The previously-announced £1bn fund follows on from the government’s 10-point plan for ac...

It comes as the UN secretary general's special adviser on Climate Action has told Sky News The installation that produced the most emissions in Europe was the Belchatow Power Station in Poland, which emits the same amount of CO2 as the whole of New Zealand - 32.7 million tonnes. The massive coal-fired plant is a typical example of why some countries have been lax in decarbonising to the same extent as the UK.  Poland has a large coal mining industry and, despite a legal campaign against Belchatow in 2019, the country's president said the government would be reluctant to give up on co...