Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Analysis Deputy Director

CCUS is a cross-economy sector which could play a crucial role in decarbonising the power, industry, and waste sectors, as well as in enabling future hydrogen production and potential negative emissions via greenhouse gas removals. Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGRs) present a major opportunity for green industry in the UK.

As part of plans to deliver net zero, energy security, and economic growth, the UK has demonstrated its ambition to be a global leader in developing and deploying innovative technologies such as Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS), Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), and Direct Ocean Capture.

This will deliver new export opportunities and support tens of thousands of high-quality green jobs across the country, while balancing residual emissions from hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as aviation.

This new Deputy Director role would lead DESNZ’s analysis supporting this policy area, ensuring that we have robust evidence and data to underpin strategic decisions about the role of CCUS and Greenhouse Gas Removals across the economy and in contributing towards our legally-binding carbon budgets. This includes providing the analysis to support ongoing negotiations with project developers and to enable HMG to take individual multi-£bn investment decisions, as well as to support our future policy and strategy development as CCUS matures as a technology.

The role will bring together work on:

• Sector analysis on CCUS in relation to hydrogen, industrial carbon capture, waste, and power including biomass with CCUS (BECCS).
• Analysis on CCUS transport & storage, Value for Money, and wider CCUS modelling.
• Analysis on greenhouse gas removals other than BECCS.
• Monitoring and evaluation for CCUS.

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