Scaling CCS: new business models for rapid deployment

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) remains a critical lever for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, enabling energy solutions to be delivered in the most carbon-efficient way possible. As CCS evolves from pilot to commercial scale, industry leaders are championing a collaborative, pragmatic approach to create viable business models that distribute risk, align incentives, and expand infrastructure through cross-sector innovation. Emerging frameworks, including emissions aggregators, shared CCS hubs, and open-access CO₂ transport and storage networks, exemplify how the energy ecosystem is reframing challenges into pathways for efficient, cost-effective scaling. These solutions enable emitters, service providers, and infrastructure developers to unite across the value chain, creating bankable projects with predictable outcomes. As governments introduce forward-thinking policies including clearer carbon pricing mechanisms and financial incentives, strategic alignment and collaboration between private and public sectors becomes increasingly critical. Unlocking the full potential of CCS will require more than technology, it demands innovative business models that create shared value, reduce cost barriers, and scale up infrastructure to advance a resilient, low-carbon, high-growth future. 

Attendee Insights:

Gain exposure to emerging CCS business models and learn how value chain collaboration, emissions aggregation, and open-access networks are reshaping how industries finance and scale carbon capture technologies.

Advancing the commercial viability of carbon emissions abatement technologies

The range of carbon emissions reduction technologies is broad – from retrofits for existing compressors to vapour recovery units, carbon capture units and more cost-efficient wind turbines. Their economic viability can be often challenged. Upfront costs can be high, and businesses and investors are understandably cautious about technologies unproven at scale. Additionally, the absence of robust carbon pricing or tax breaks can make clean technologies less competitive. The energy industry, government, technology innovators and academia must work together to incentivise the financing needed to scale the technologies that will deliver the new energy system.

Attendee insights:

This session will explore how carbon reduction technologies can be made more commercially viable, accelerating the clean energy transition.

Innovation showcase: A transformation in industrial carbon capture

Carbon Clean’s fully columnless CycloneCC C1 series, is a compact, modular carbon capture solution that eliminates conventional columns by using Rotating Packed Beds (RPBs). This design cuts plant height by 70% and reduces steel needs by over 35%. The full CycloneCC C1 series is available in concentrations ranging from 3% to 20%, capturing up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. With a smaller, columnless design, CycloneCC requires up to 50% less space and reduces the total cost of carbon capture by up to 50%.

Carbon capture brings together economics, efficiency and performance. Innovative use of Carbon Clean-developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) is also contributing to increased efficiency and reliability, as well as maximising the performance of Carbon Clean’s proprietary APBS-CDRMax solvent.