Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): Ensuring fair access to CO2 infrastructure

Closes 6 Feb 2026

Opened 28 Nov 2025

Overview

This consultation reviews the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Access to Infrastructure) Regulations 2011 to assess their effectiveness.

It is part of a wider effort to progress areas that could help the UK transition to a self-sustaining carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) market.

The questions in this consultation focus on how the 2011 Regulations may need to be amended to:

  • reflect the policy environment CCUS now operates in
  • support both the establishment of first-of-a-kind CCUS infrastructure and future development of the CCUS market
  • support policy objectives for domestic and global emissions reduction

Please read the consultation document for more information. You can use the link below to submit a response.

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Audiences

  • Charities and Third Sector organisations
  • Construction
  • Consumers
  • General public
  • Individual
  • Innovation community
  • Investment
  • Large businesses (over 250 staff)
  • Legal representative
  • Local government
  • Low carbon technologies
  • Medium business (50 to 250 staff)
  • Micro business (up to 9 staff)
  • Multinational businesses
  • Non-departmental public bodies
  • Non-Government Organisations
  • Oil and Gas
  • Regulator
  • Researchers
  • Scientists
  • Small business (10 to 49 staff)
  • SMEs (small and medium businesses)
  • Technology (R&D)
  • The Devolved Administrations
  • Trade bodies

Interests

  • Business investment
  • Carbon budgets
  • Carbon capture and storage
  • Carbon markets
  • Carbon neutrality
  • Carbon offsetting
  • Climate change
  • Competitiveness
  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Emissions
  • Energy and climate change
  • Growth
  • Industrial strategy
  • International
  • Investment
  • Productivity
  • R&D
  • Regulation
  • Regulation and red tape
  • Research
  • Security and resilience
  • Simplification
  • Stability