Biomass negative emissions technology ‘could be commercially viable’

Negative emissions technology based on biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) could become a commercial reality in the UK as long as it gets government support, a report has concluded.

The report from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), published on 8 November, finds that BECCS, which removes CO₂ from the atmosphere, is the cheapest negative emissions technology and should therefore be an integral part of a new domestic CCS strategy.