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CCUS的大规模部署需要开发大量且昂贵的二氧化碳运输和储存基础设施，因此详细考虑CCUS价值链中这些要素的政策和经济影响以及成本降低是集群可行性的关键。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，并将从工业利益相关者的大量投入中受益。该项目将寻求开发一种新的方法来理解英国CCUS集群的设计和演变。所需运输系统的设计需要对长时间尺度的集群二氧化碳运输网络进行详细的成本效益分析和优化，最大限度地降低二氧化碳运输和储存的总成本，同时考虑到潜在的容量扩张或收缩。该项目将设法描述和纳入集群内个别工业行动者的战略行为。这将包括长期经济和商业模型，以了解企业投资CCUS基础设施的驱动因素，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。这将用于为CCUS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.