A comprehensive study has concluded with doubts about Britain’s ability to bring about a viable carbon capture and storage industry.

A world climate change expert has said the UK should not build any more coal fired power stations, and instead focus on a nuclear and renewable mix.

The UK government today published its first carbon capture and storage roadmap.

A GBP5bn ($8bn) power station and carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the northeast of England has received a major boost with the news that Japanese technology giant Samsung is to take a 15 per cent stake in the project.

A US power company, Summit Power Group is planning to build a coal-fired power station at Grangemouth, Scotland.

E.ON revealed today that it will close Kingsnorth coal fired power station in the UK in March 2013 and is also scrapping plans for carbon capture and storage units at the site.

Australian Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has thrown a lifeline to a contentious coal-fired power plant project in Victoria's Latrobe Valley that is subject to a legal tussle with state environmental authorities.

Swedish utility Vattenfall has announced the termination of its planned EUR1.5bn ($2bn) investment in the high-profile carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project at its Janschwalde plant, blaming the ongoing uncertainty over the German CCS law.

The largest carbon capture pilot plant in the UK was opened yesterday by UK energy secretary Chris Huhne.

A carbon capture (CC) pilot plant at SSE’s Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire in the UK has opened, with a goal of capturing 100 tonnes of carbon dioxide daily from the equivalent of 5 MW of coal fired capacity.

Ameren Corp has set a fresh challenge for the FutureGen clean coal project by pulling out of the initiative, which has received $1bn in government funding.

Planners at a Scottish council have recommended that proposals for a controversial new power station are not given the go-ahead.

Australian gas producer Santos expects demand for gas in the east of the country to triple over the next 10 years.

UK energy secretary Chris Huhne said today there would be no “back-sliding” in funding carbon capture and storage projects in Britain, despite the collapse of plans for a plant at Longannet.

The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has withdrawn funding from the country’s most advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, which would have been implemented at Scotland’s 2.4 GW Longannet coal fired power plant.

Vattenfall AB’s carbon storage plans have suffered a blow following the Danish government refusal of the Swedish utility’s application to store carbon dioxide in the Vedsted structure northwest of Aalborg, reports Bloomberg.

Next week the European Commission (EC) is due to announce plans to spend nearly EUR10bn ($13.9bn) over the next ten years to boost the the European Union’s energy infrastructure network.

Longannet carbon capture and storage (CCS) scheme in Scotland could collapse in weeks over a funding dispute between Scottish Power and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Marubeni Corporation has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth about $220m for the biomass and clean coal cogeneration plant Stage 2A by TP Utilities Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Tuas Power, in Singapore.