Schedule 25C, Part 1, paragraph 3

This paragraph applies for the purposes of this Schedule. A “decarbonisation readiness report” is a report which includes— a CCR technical assessment, a CCR economic feasibility certification and a CCR storage feasibility certification, or an HCR technical assessment, an HCR economic feasibility certification and an HCR fuel feasibility certification. A “CCR technical assessment” is an assessment as to whether the CCR conditions are met in relation to a relevant generator (see paragraph 4). A “CCR economic feasibility certification” is a statement that the operator has reasonable grounds to believe that it will be economically feasible for a relevant generator to— be connected to a qualifying complete CCS system during the lifetime of the relevant generator, and operate whilst connected to that system. A “CCR storage feasibility certification” is a statement that the operator has reasonable grounds to believe that it will be technically feasible, during the lifetime of a relevant generator, for the relevant amount of EG CO2 captured to be transported (including by way of non-pipeline transport methods) to a named storage site for disposal by way of permanent storage. An “HCR technical assessment” is an assessment as to whether the HCR conditions are met in relation to a relevant generator (see paragraph 5). An “HCR fuel feasibility certification” is a statement that the operator has reasonable grounds to believe that it will be possible, during the lifetime of a relevant generator, to ensure access to a sufficient supply of hydrogen for the relevant generator to enable it to use hydrogen as the primary source of fuel. An “HCR economic feasibility certification” is a statement that the operator has reasonable grounds to be believe that it will be economically feasible for a relevant generator to— be converted to the use of hydrogen as the primary source of fuel during the lifetime of the relevant generator, and use primarily that fuel. For the purposes of this paragraph “named storage site” means a geological disposal site approved under Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2008 and other legislation which transposed Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide in relation to England and Wales, which is identified in a decarbonisation report as the site to which EG CO2 is to be transported.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30