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The Economics of Scaling Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage

https://www.orie.utexas.edu/news/71-the-economics-of-scaling-carbon-capture-u…

Sloan Foundation has awarded a team, including ORIE Assistant Professor Ben Leibowicz, a $850,000 grant to study the economics of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). The team's research will consist of four interrelated projects on the economics of CCUS. Dr. Leibowicz is leading two of these projects in which he is applying operations research models to address questions about CCUS infrastructure investments and policy incentives designed to stimulate them. Engineering cost estimates suggest that many CCUS projects should be profitable given available policy incentives, such as the 45Q tax credit for carbon capture that is currently in place. The first project that Dr. Leibowicz and his students are working on focuses on the extent to which policy uncertainty diminishes CCUS infrastructure investment. In their second project, Dr. Leibowicz and his team will explore the hypothesis that coordination problems among the multiple actors who would need to be part of the CCUS infrastructure network are hindering development.

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nature.com article

“A pragmatic approach for scaling both carbon utilization ... - Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44296-025-00085-5

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU), though often conflated, play distinct, complementary roles in a net-zero future. This perspective contrasts CCS’s critical function in permanent emissions mitigation with CCU’s capacity to deliver essential carbon-based products, advocating for integrated deployment and supportive policies to address the carbon management imperative’s technical, economic, and societal challenges. While this creates less desirable final products if those have short lifetimes due to the associated fossil carbon intensity, it is a viable path to help launch the CCU industry and, in so doing, derisk the deployment and operation of carbon capture technologies at scale. Whilst we leave the detailed definition of this support for a future contribution, we would a priori suggest that scale will be key - both scale in terms of total addressable final market for the CCU product, but also scale at which the carbon capture technology is deployed so that CCU projects can act to support the scale up and deployment of CCS projects.

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weforum.org article

How to scale carbon capture and storage for climate action

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/scale-carbon-capture-storage-climate-…

With the right frameworks in place, CCS can cut emissions at scale while safeguarding essential systems such as food production, industry and

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