Energy Bill

Obviously, as we have discussed at length, there is no existing large-scale CCS on a coal-fired power-generating station, but there is a wealth of experience on the cost of this technology, because, as various Members have said, it has been around for a long time. The IEA greenhouse gas project has a wealth of data on the economics of CCS. It ranges from that which is commercial now—for instance, where there is advanced oil recovery, where storage is right next to the plant and on particular types of recovery—right through to that which is quite expensive, very distant from the aquifer and so on. That experience and those data are already readily available.