Angus Brendan MacNeil – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Angus Brendan MacNeil on 2015-12-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment the Government has made of the potential contribution of carbon capture and storage to the UK meeting its 2020 carbon reduction targets.

Andrea Leadsom

In DECC’s most recently published reference scenario, Carbon Capture and Storage would generate one per cent of electricity in 2020. The UK has a carbon budget for the period 2018-22 which requires a 37% reduction in emissions on 1990 levels, which we are on track to meet and over-perform by 51 MtCO2e.