Carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is essential to meeting the dual challenge of providing affordable, reliable energy while addressing the risks of climate change at the lowest cost. The United States is uniquely positioned as the world leader in CCUS, with approximately 80% of the world's CCUS capacity and substantial capability to drive widespread deployment in the United States and abroad.
Building on expertise and previous research, Meeting the Dual Challenge addresses the entire CCUS supply chain and recognizes that at-scale success requires economic and operational integration across industries, harmonized local/state/federal regulations, innovation and technology development, and broad public acceptance. The report details the actions needed to deploy carbon capture technologies at scale in the United States, an essential climate mitigation technology identified in the majority of global energy outlooks.
In the interest of transparency, and to help readers better understand this study, the NPC is making the study results and many of the documents developed by the study groups available to all interested parties. This comprehensive report provides interested parties with the ability to review this report and supporting materials in different levels of detail as follows.
Volume I, Summary of Findings and Recommendations, includes the report transmittal letter, outline of the entire report, preface, executive summary, roadmap for enabling the widespread implementation of CCUS at scale, a complete list of the detailed recommendations of the study, and appendices providing the study request letter, NPC rosters, and study group rosters. This volume provides two levels of summarization.
- Report Transmittal Letter is the first layer, which submits the report to the Secretary of Energy as the Council's response to his request for advice on carbon capture, use, and storage. It provides a very brief, high-level overview of the report's key messages.
- Executive Summary is the second layer and provides a broad overview of the study's principal findings and resulting recommendations for enabling the widespread implementation of CCUS at scale.
Additional study materials include Volume II - Analysis of CCUS Deployment At-Scale, Volume III - Analysis of CCUS Technologies, and additional resources available at the study's website (dualchallenge.npc.org).
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