UKCCSRC - The United Kingdom Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre

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The UKCCSRC is a national UK research hub for Carbon Capture and Storage with three main priorities:Delivering Research Impact Developing Leaders Shaping CapabilityStrategy - The UKCCSRC will bring strategy to UK academic CCS research in support of government targets.Impact - will be maximised by providing a national focal point for CCS R&D to bring together the user community andacademics to analyse problems, devise and carry out world-leading research and share delivery. A key priority will be tohelp rebuild the UK economy by driving an integrated research programme focused on maximising the contribution of CCSto a low-carbon energy system for UK.Research will be linked to the following pathways to impact in future stages of CCS deployment:a) Maximise the learning from the DECC CCS demonstration programme to reduce costs and risks for subsequent CCSprojects to.b) Develop a knowledge base for rollout of CCS as part of UK electricity sector decarbonisation in the 2020s, including forthe life of this CCS infrastructure until 2050 and beyond.c) Prepare for extensive deployment of CCS to meet UK 2050 targets, including CCS on industry, very low residualemissions from CCS on fossil fuels and negative emissions from biomass with CCS.Leaders - The UKCCSRC will cross institutional and disciplinary boundaries to bring together visionary leaders able to setresearch agendas that fully combine the intersecting fields of knowledge required to maximise the potential of CCS,inspirational team leaders for complex, long-term research programmes, and will also provide leadership developmentopportunities for early- and mid-career researchers.Capability - The UK CCS Research Centre will provide CCS researchers with the space, support and opportunities to fostercreativity and to empower them to deliver the highest quality long-term research in CCS areas where there is current orfuture national need.The activities of the UKCCSRC will be overseen by a broadly-based independent Board, reporting to RCUK and otherfunders. A Management Team made up of the Principal Investigator/Director and eight Co-Investigators plus a Secretariatwill be responsible for running the Centre. Nine additional Research Area Champions will also help cover the wide range ofdifferent specialised knowledge fields involved in implementing CCS systems.The existing UK CCS Community Network will be operated by the Centre, giving a fully inclusive forum for UK CCSstakeholders and a route for all UK academics to engage with the UKCCSRC.The UKCCSRC initial funding supports a core research programme (£3M) that covers a number of evident gaps in existingresearch and also includes scoping research in areas likely to be of strategic importance. It also funds shared nationalfacilities (£2M plus £2.9M from DECC). A further £1.5M has been set aside for flexible seed funding to be allocated on acompetitive basis for emerging strategic research needs.Academic BeneficiariesDescribe who will benefit from the research [up to 4000 chars].The Centre will be expanded by a number of routes:a) Academic researchers on existing and new CCS projects will be invited to link these to the Centre.b) Non-academic partners in projects that are linked to the Centre may become UKCCSRC Affiliatesc) Additional funding for UKCCSRC research programmes will be sought from RCUK and other UK and internationalgovernment-funded sources and also from industry.Research and Pathways to Impact Delivery (RAPID)The key overall strategy for future UKCCSRC expansion is to couple research with impact from the outset. Proposedresearch will have to be linked to plausible routes to deliver a positive impact for CCS deployment. The RAPID process willrun throughout the course of the UKCCSRC with results summarised in a RAPID Handbook, updated yearly.