Carbon "capture ready" means very little to coal-fired power stations now being conssidered in Britain, according to a report commissioned by WWF-UK.
How ready is capture ready? prepared by Edinburgh University’s Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage (SCCS) explored what the concept often touted by the power industry actually means to the industry, and found little in the way of any substantial commitments.
“Currently, claims of CCS readiness do little more than refer to the need for power plants to leave space on the site for CCS equipment to be retrofitted in the future,” says Keith Allott, Head of Climate Change at WWF-UK.
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