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Written question asked by Alan Brown (Scottish National Party) on Monday, 24 June 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 26 June 2019. It was answered by Chris Skidmore (Conservative) on Monday, 1 July 2019 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Carbon: Scotland

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of Scotland’s offshore storage capacity for carbon.

Answer

The UK has significant carbon dioxide storage capacity in both the Central and Southern North Sea and East Irish Sea.

The Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) CO2 Storage Appraisal Project, funded by the UK Government, identified that the UK has the potential to store more than 78 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide[1] and could be a world leader in carbon dioxide storage services, supporting new economic opportunities by providing carbon dioxide storage for UK and potentially for European emissions for many years in the future[2].

The ETI project also outlined that a number of potential carbon dioxide storage sites across the UK are already well appraised and suitable for carbon dioxide storage. All information from the ETI project and on potential carbon dioxide storage in UK waters more widely is available through the world-leading CO2 Stored database[3]. The database provides the location and size of all known potential carbon dioxide storage sites in UK territorial waters.

[1] Energy Technologies Institute LLP, 2017. Taking stock of UK CO2 Storage. Available from: https://www.eti.co.uk/insights/taking-stock-of-uk-co2-storage

[2] International Energy Agency, 2017. Energy Technology Perspectives; An evolving energy system. Available from: https://www. iea.org/etp2017/summary/

[3] CO2 Stored. Homepage. Available from: http://www. co2stored.co.uk/home/index

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
268618
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Carbon Scotland Storage
Link
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