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UK Industrial Carbon Capture Business Model (2025)

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The UK Industrial Carbon Capture (ICC) Business Model is the government contractual support framework for industrial and waste-sector carbon capture projects. The November 2025 package includes updated business-model terms, Front End Agreements and standard terms and conditions. The model combines an up-to-15-year payment per tonne of captured and permanently stored CO2 with capital grant co-funding for eligible initial projects. Revenue support is intended to cover efficient operating costs, CO2 transport and storage charges, repayment of capital investment and an allowed return. Support is allocated through government project-selection and contracting processes; publication of the model does not create an automatic subsidy entitlement.

National Governance Context

United Kingdom Overview

Aggregate National Maturity Index (Peak Strength)

Governed Policies

4

Identified Projects

106

Operational Cap 0.0 Mtpa
Under Construction Cap 12.1 Mtpa
Planned Cap 239.5 Mtpa

Related Policy Network

Peer Frameworks

2023 Regulatory

UK CCS Network Code Framework (Planned)

2023 Market

UK Energy Act 2023 (CCUS Economic Regulation)

2023 Regulatory

UK CCUS Vision (2035 Strategy)

Directly Linked Assets

Acorn H2

Capture — 0.4 Mtpa

Fife ethylene plant

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Acorn Isle of Grain to Peterhead shipping

Transport — 2 Mtpa

Cauldon cement plant

Capture — 0.54 Mtpa

Veolia EfW to fuels

CCU — 0 Mtpa

CORY EfW plant Belvedere

Full chain — 1.3 Mtpa

Lighthouse Green Fuels

Capture — 0 Mtpa

North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park (NLGEP)

Capture — 0.65 Mtpa

Emerge CCS

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Altalto

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Seal Sands TGEPL

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Connah's Quay Low Carbon Power (CQLCP) Phase 1

Capture — 1.5 Mtpa

Saint-Gobain glass

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Sullom voe terminal and Shetland basin hub (SVT) - Thistle injection phase 1

T&S — 2 Mtpa

Shetland Offshore power generation

Capture — 1 Mtpa

DelpHYnus hydrogen production Theddlethorpe

Capture — 5 Mtpa

Drax BECCS Project (Phase 1)

Capture — 4.3 Mtpa

Drax BECCS Project (Phase 2)

Capture — 3.7 Mtpa

Connah's Quay Low Carbon (CQLCP) Power Phase 2

Capture — 1.2 Mtpa

Killingholme Low Carbon Power project

Full chain — 0 Mtpa

Lynemouth Power Station (BECCS)

Capture — 2.3 Mtpa

RWE CCGT Great Yarmouth (Norfolk)

Capture — 0.6 Mtpa

Sullom voe terminal and Shetland basin hub (SVT) - Regional Expansion phase 3

T&S — 5 Mtpa

Sullom voe terminal and Shetland basin hub (SVT) - Magnus phase 2

T&S — 3 Mtpa

North Tees Hydrogen CO2 capture

Capture — 0.2 Mtpa

Future Biogas plants phase 2

Capture — 0.345 Mtpa

Future Biogas plants phase 1

Capture — 0.2 Mtpa

H21 Leeds City Gate - Teesside hydrogen

Capture — 1.5 Mtpa

H2NorthEast Phase 1

Capture — 0.823 Mtpa

H2NorthEast Phase 2

Capture — 1.495 Mtpa

BP H2Teesside Phase 1

Capture — 1 Mtpa

BP H2Teesside Phase 2

Capture — 1 Mtpa

Hydrogen to Humber (H2H) Saltend phase 1

Capture — 0.89 Mtpa

INEOS Grangemouth refinery and hydrogen production

Capture — 1 Mtpa

Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station

Capture — 1.5 Mtpa

Liverpool Bay CCS project phase 1

T&S — 4.5 Mtpa

Liverpool Bay CCS expansion project (phase 2)

T&S — 5.5 Mtpa

Net Zero Teesside Power

Capture — 2.4 Mtpa

Northern Endurance Partnership phase 1

T&S — 4 Mtpa

Hanson Padeswood Cement Works CCS

Capture — 0.8 Mtpa

Peterhead Carbon Capture Power Station

Capture — 1.5 Mtpa

Peterhead Power Station CCS (2011 version)

Full chain — 1.5 Mtpa

Phillips 66 Humber refinery

Capture — 0.5 Mtpa

Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery Phase 1

Capture — 0.55 Mtpa

Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery Phase 2

Capture — 0.55 Mtpa

Project Cavendish Phase 1

Capture — 1.2 Mtpa

Project Cavendish Phase 2

Capture — 1.8 Mtpa

Redcar Energy Centre EfW

Capture — 0.4 Mtpa

Humber Hub Blue North Killingholme

Capture — 1.6 Mtpa

HyNet Hydrogen Production Project (HPP) Plant 1 (Hynet phase 1)

Capture — 0.65 Mtpa

Northeast Scotland DAC

Capture — 1 Mtpa

Suez Tees Valley / Haverton Hill Waste to Energy CCS

Capture — 0.24 Mtpa

Viridor Runcorn CCS project

Capture — 0.9 Mtpa

Viking CCS Phase 1

T&S — 3.6 Mtpa

Viking CCS Phase 2

T&S — 6.4 Mtpa

VPI Immingham CHP plant CCS

Capture — 3.3 Mtpa

Whitetail Clean Energy

Capture — 0.8 Mtpa

Sizewell C nuclear-powered DAC Full-scale

Capture — 0.05 Mtpa

Hynet Northwest phase 3

Capture — 8.1 Mtpa

Northern Endurance Partnership phase 2

T&S — 4 Mtpa

Northern Endurance Partnership phase 3

T&S — 2 Mtpa

Centrica Equinor hydrogen hub Easington collaboration

Full chain — 0 Mtpa

Milford Haven CO2 Project (Part of Pembroke Net Zero Centre (PNZC))

Full chain — 5 Mtpa

Bacton CCS

T&S — 10 Mtpa

Ince Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (InBECCS) scaleup

Capture — 0.25 Mtpa

Protos CO2 network phase 1

Transport — 0.8 Mtpa

Protos CO2 network phase 2

Transport — 0.4 Mtpa

Grain CCGT power station

Capture — 2 Mtpa

Damhead Creek CCGT power station

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Medway CCGT power station

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Medway Hub CCS

T&S — 6 Mtpa

Energy Recovery Facility Edmonton EcoPark

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Stanlow Oil Refinery

Capture — 0.86 Mtpa

Morecambe Net Zero

Storage — 3 Mtpa

CF Fertilisers Billingham Ammonia CCS

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility (ERF)

Capture — 0.38 Mtpa

Buxton Lime Net Zero

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TVERF)

Capture — 0 Mtpa

ZerCal250

Capture — 0 Mtpa

Caledonia Clean Energy (previously Captain Clean Energy)

Full chain — 3 Mtpa

Acorn CCS phase 1-Capture at St Fergus

Capture — 0.3 Mtpa

Carbon Capture at Ince Fertiliser Site

Capture — 0.4 Mtpa

Viking CCS Phase 3

T&S — 5 Mtpa

RWE CCGT Staythorpe

Capture — 3.7 Mtpa

e-Alto

CCU — 0 Mtpa

Peak cluster transport

Transport — 3 Mtpa

Ferrybridge EfW

Capture — 1.2 Mtpa

Navigator Terminal train

Transport — 0 Mtpa

Acorn CCS phase 1-T&S

T&S — 0.8 Mtpa

RWE CCGT Stallingborough

Capture — 1.87 Mtpa

Hydrogen to Humber (H2H) Saltend phase 2

Capture — 1 Mtpa

UK Poseidon CCS project phase 1

Storage — 1.5 Mtpa

UK Poseidon CCS project phase 2

Storage — 8.5 Mtpa

UK Poseidon CCS project phase 3

Storage — 30 Mtpa

Enquest CCS Project

Storage — 10 Mtpa

Orion CCS Project Phase 1

Storage — 1 Mtpa

Orion CCS Project Phase 2

Storage — 5 Mtpa

Tellus CCS - CS020 (Area 1)

Storage — 10 Mtpa

Tellus CCS - CS021 (Area 5)

Storage — 6 Mtpa

Tellus CCS - CS022 (Area 7)

Storage — 6 Mtpa

Humberside CCS with Shell and Esso

Storage — 0 Mtpa

Acorn CCS phase 2

T&S — 5 Mtpa

Tranmere and Stanlow Terminal

Transport — 0 Mtpa

Parc Adfer CCS

Capture — 0.235 Mtpa

The Bluestreak CO2 Joint Venture

T&S — 30 Mtpa

HyNet Hydrogen Production Project (HPP) Plant 2 (Hynet phase 2)

Capture — 1.9 Mtpa