Pale Blue Dot Energy welcomes the launch of the NECCUS alliance

The team at Pale Blue Dot Energy, the Project Developers behind Acorn CCS and Acorn Hydrogen, are delighted to be at Holyrood today to support the Ministerial launch of the North East Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage Alliance (NECCUS).

This formal collaboration between industry, academia and Government is a really encouraging sign of support for the urgent deployment of both carbon capture and storage infrastructure and hydrogen production in Scotland, to help the country’s bid to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2045.

All the signatories to the NECCUS alliance are agreeing to work together to support the Scottish energy transition. This co-ordinated effort to address hard to decarbonise sectors like heat, heavy industry, transport, and chemicals through the deployment of CCUS and hydrogen production with CCS, is critically important, and echoes the strong recommendations from Chris Stark, Chair of the Committee on Climate Change, who said, ‘Carbon capture and storage is a necessity not an option for enabling the UK as a whole to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.’

Alan James, Managing Director at Pale Blue Dot Energy said,

“This ground-breaking alliance is a major boost to the work we are doing to develop the Acorn CCS and Acorn Hydrogen projects and at Pale Blue Dot, we are very proud to be amongst the founding members of the alliance. The conversations we are having in Scotland now, are all about enabling, and making the best possible use of the country’s incredible existing resources. With supportive Government and development agencies, and now an impressive collection of Scotland’s largest emitters seriously engaging with this technology. It feels like CCS is finally beginning to get the recognition and support it requires.”

Acorn has received match funding from the UK and Scottish Governments and has benefited from two rounds of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) funding from the European Commission.