NECCUS (pronounced nexus) is an alliance of industry, government and experts, united by their determination to drive the changes and support the programmes needed to reduce carbon emissions from industrial sources in Scotland and beyond.
At the heart of the NECCUS Alliance is a project known as Acorn which is set to deliver a carbon capture and storage programme for Scotland by 2024 and which can be scaled-up to support other carbon reduction projects across the UK and Europe in the 2020s. The project will also enable hydrogen to be used more widely as a source of clean energy. Both these technologies will be crucial if Scotland is to meet its carbon net zero target by 2045 and the UK by 2050.
The Project – Scotland’s Net Zero Roadmap (SNZR)
The UK Government has committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and the Scottish Government aims to meet this target by 2045. To support this goal, the UK Government and Innovate UK established an Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. This is supporting initiatives across six UK regions to develop roadmaps for the decarbonisation of industrial clusters. Scotland’s Net Zero Roadmap (SNZR) is one of these and received funding for initial work (Phase 1) to understand the scale of industrial CO2 emissions in Scotland and the potential options to address these.
Phase 1 took place between April and July 2020 and it has designed the approach for Phase 2, when the actual roadmap will be developed. Phase 1 partners have been; NECCUS, Optimat, Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS) at the University of Edinburgh, the Oil and Gas Technology Centre, the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Pale Blue Dot Energy, SGN, Costain and the Energy Systems Catapult.
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