Exemptions from the requirement to hold a carbon dioxide transport and storage licence: call for evidence

Overview

The Energy Bill (2022) establishes a prohibition on providing a service of transporting carbon dioxide by pipeline and operating a geological storage site, without a transport and storage economic licence under Part 1, Clause 2 of the Bill.

To ensure that the prohibition applied to operating a CO₂ transport and storage network without a licence doesn’t impact activities which are not considered necessary or appropriate to economically regulate, Part 1, Clause 5 of the Bill allows the Secretary of State to make regulations to grant exemptions from this prohibition.

This Call for Evidence will inform our policy and proposals relating to regulations on exemptions to be granted from the requirement to hold a carbon dioxide transport and storage licence. This will support the policy development of an effective transport and storage licence exemption regime to ensure it:

• is fit for purpose in this emerging landscape
• protects user and consumers’ interests
• promotes the efficient and economic development and operation of transport and storage networks

Why your views matter

We will use the evidence from this call-out to inform our proposals for an effective exemptions regime. 

Your response will help us gain a fuller and better picture of how the exemptions regime may operate, and how it will interact with changes and developments in the CCUS market.

Read the call for evidence document on GOV.UK.