中国石化新闻网讯 据世界石油网3月13日报道，英国财政大臣杰里米·亨特将在下周的预算中宣布200亿英镑(240亿美元)用于未来20年的国内碳捕获项目，因为英国寻求实现净零目标并刺激绿色就业。
亨特在一份电子邮件声明中说：“是时候重新启动清洁能源了。”该声明还透露了推动英国核能发电的计划。他说，这些措施将“有助于降低全国家庭的能源账单，并改善我们的能源安全”。
碳捕获与封存(CCS)等气候解决方案的投资正成为一个具有竞争性和争议性的问题，英国担心由于美国的大规模绿色补贴计划，它将输给美国。美国的《通货膨胀削减法案》为一系列绿色技术提供了高达3700亿美元的补贴和税收抵免，吸引欧洲公司到大西洋彼岸投资。
亨特说，英国在CCS方面的投资将用于旨在到2030年每年储存2000万至3000万吨二氧化碳的项目，相当于1000万至1500万辆汽车的排放量。
亨特还将在3月15日的预算中宣布促进英国核电发展的计划，包括为该国首个小型核模块反应堆进行竞争。英国已经在劳斯莱斯控股有限公司的一个反应堆项目上投资了2.1亿英镑。
寿琳玲 编译自 世界石油
原文如下：
UK to spend $24 billion>Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will announce ￡20 billion ($24 billion) for domestic carbon capture projects over the next 20 years in his budget next week, as the UK seeks to hit its net zero targets and spur green jobs.
“It’s time for a clean energy reset,” Hunt said in an e-mailed statement, which also trailed plans to boost Britain’s nuclear power generation. The measures will “help drive energy bills down for households across the country and improve our energy security,” he said.
Investment in climate solutions such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) is becoming a competitive and controversial issue, with the UK fearing it will lose out to the U.S. due to President Joe Biden’s massive package of green subsidies. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act offers subsidies and tax credits to the tune of $370 billion for a range of green technologies, enticing European firms to invest>Hunt said the UK’s investment in CCS would go toward projects that aim to store 20 million to 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually by 2030, equal to the emissions of 10 million to 15 million cars.
Hunt will also announce plans in his budget on March 15 to boost nuclear power in Britain, including a competition for the country’s first small nuclear modular reactor. The UK is already investing ￡210 million in a reactor project by Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc.