A new study released by the Energy Technology Institute (ETI) has thrown a fresh spotlight onto the UK’s potential carbon dioxide (CO2) offshore storage assets and how they could pave the way towards affordable climate action.
The £2.5m ($3.6m) appraisal study, entitled ‘Progressing development of the UK’s Strategic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resource,’ was carried out for the ETI by Pale Blue Dot and its project partners, and aims to help advance understanding of the UK’s strategic CO2 storage reserves by releasing important new CO2 storage site data into the public domain for the first time.
The resource outlines how there aren’t actually any technical hurdles in permanent offshore geological storage and that more than a billion tonnes of CO2 could be stored in identified North Sea locations by 2030. Alongside offshore salt-water aquifers, these sites can now be put to profitable use for storing anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
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