APP50312: MaxStoreUK

Started

Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(CO2 Capture and Storage, CO2 storage)
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells(Hydrogen, Hydrogen storage)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance)
Other (Energy technology information dissemination)

Dr MC Akhurst
Geology and Landscape Northern Britain
British Geological Survey (BGS) - NERC

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2025

01 October 2027

24 months

£644,805

Unknown

East Midlands

Energy and Decarbonisation

Dr MC Akhurst, Geology and Landscape Northern Britain, British Geological Survey (BGS) - NERC

John Andresen, Not supplied
Saeed Ghanbari, Not supplied
Ed Hough, Not supplied
Lin Ma, Not supplied
Eric Mackay, Not supplied
Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Not supplied
Jonathan Pearce, Not supplied
Omid Shahrokhi, Not supplied
Kevin Taylor, Not supplied
John Williams, Not supplied

The UK's geological storage resource is amongst the largest in Europe and is critical to the country achieving net zero by 2030. Funding has been awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for a two-year project, 'Maximising the UK geological storage resource' or MaxStoreUK. The project is led by BGS with collaborators from the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) and researchers at Heriot-Watt University and The University of Manchester. The findings will inform investment decisions and policy development and maximise the use of the subsurface in the UK to reach net zero. MaxStoreUK will build on subsurface hydrogen and carbon storage research investigations previously completed as part of the IDRIC research programme. The objectives of the new project are to: Share tailored information on regional UK geological carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen storage opportunities with industry clusters and other key stakeholders; Present a UK hydrogen storage briefing to enable cross-sector policy collaboration; Increase understanding of CO2 storage in a UK Central North Sea frontier area of extensive strata with multiple prospective storage sites; Advise on solutions to specific risks for UK hydrogen storage with operators and regulators that are addressed by our modelling and experimental data.

07/01/26