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Cadent says carbon rules shut biomethane out of cheaper net zero route
A Cadent report finds that government carbon capture and storage allocation rules have excluded much of the UK's biomethane sector from greenhouse gas removal payments, despite its potential as a low-cost removal source. It estimates selling those removals could add up to £20 per megawatt hour of biomethane, cutting the subsidy needed by around a third, and that biomethane at full potential could remove about 17 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
Our readCadent frames this as a fixable drafting error in the removals rules, and on its own numbers, it is one of the cheaper routes available to a government chasing its own targets.
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