Understanding the Technological and Economic Drivers of the Development of CCUS Clusters in the United Kingdom

部署产业集群以实现脱碳，是英国向净零经济转型的关键。由于大规模部署CCUS需要为二氧化碳的运输和储存开发重要且昂贵的基础设施，因此详细考虑政策和经济影响以及降低CCUS价值链这些要素的成本是集群生存的关键。这个令人兴奋的项目将结合经济学和工程学的专业知识来应对这一挑战，并将受益于工业利益相关者的大量投入。该项目将寻求开发一种新的方法来了解英国CCUS集群的设计和演变。所需运输系统的设计需要对集群二氧化碳运输网络进行详细的成本效益分析和长期规模的优化，将二氧化碳运输和储存的总成本降至最低，同时考虑随着时间的推移潜在的能力扩张或收缩。该项目将寻求描述和纳入集群内个别工业参与者的战略行为。这将包括长期经济和商业模式，以了解公司对CCUS基础设施投资的驱动因素，以及政策制定者在制定鼓励或促进网络发展的政策方面的作用。这将被用来为协调委员会集群的发展和演变提供战略和政策建议。

The deployment of industrial clusters for decarbonisation is key to the UK's transition to a net zero economy. Since the large scale deployment of CCUS requires the development of significant and expensive infrastructure for both CO2 transport and storage, detailed consideration of policy and economic impacts as well as cost reduction of these elements of the CCUS value chain is key for the viability of a cluster. This exciting project will combine expertise from both economics and engineering to address this challenge, and will benefit from significant input from industrial stakeholders.This project will seek to develop a novel approach to understand the design and evolution of CCUS clusters in the UK. The design of the required transportation system requires a detailed cost benefit analysis and optimisation of the cluster CO2 transportation network over long time scales, minimising the total costs for CO2 transport and storage, whilst considering potential capacity expansion or contraction over time.The project will seek to characterise and incorporate individual industrial actors' strategic behaviour within clusters. This will include long-term economic and business models to understand the drivers of firms' investments in the CCUS infrastructure as well as the role of the policy-maker in setting policies to encourage or facilitate the development of the network. This will be used to provide strategic and policy recommendations for the development and evolution of CCUS clusters.