Increasingly urgent concerns about climate impacts from carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHG) are leading to greater federal policy attention along with growing numbers of states, localities, and private companies enacting policies and establishing targets to reduce emissions. Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) could offer an important approach to reduce emissions from energy and industrial facilities. NASEO facilitates state collaboration and sharing of best practices on all matters pertaining to CCUS options and opportunities, including supportive policy and regulatory measures.
Even as renewable energy and complementary energy storage and management technologies become more cost-competitive and gain market share, large amounts of fossil fueled power generation are likely to remain in service for some time to provide economic, reliable, and dispatchable energy. Also, hard to decarbonize industrial processes such as for iron and steel, cement, ethanol, ammonia, and petrochemical manufacture will remain vital to the economy. CCUS can provide a foundation for net-zero and even net-negative emissions biofuel production and biomass-based power generation. In complement to renewable and nuclear energy, CCUS can help enable hydrogen as a clean energy storage and transport medium. READ MORE