Design and Delivery of Greenhouse Gas Removal Standards and Methodologies for DESNZ

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DESNZ awarded a contract to BSI Standards Limited for the design and delivery of Greenhouse Gas Removal Standards, specifically Minimum Quality Thresholds and a series of Publicly Available Specifications (PASs) for Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).

The initial contract, valued at £1,839,032 (net) over 33 months, covers the design and publication of Minimum Quality Thresholds and PASs, including quantification methodologies for DACCS and BECCS.

The supplier will define methodological Minimum Quality Thresholds for early Greenhouse Gas Removal projects seeking support from the Government's Business Model, specifying requirements for removal quantification, monitoring, and reporting, and referencing best practices and existing government standards such as Carbon Capture and Storage regulations and the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation.

The Minimum Quality Thresholds are expected to address crediting periods, life cycle assessment boundaries, counterfactuals, carbon leakage, emission allocation to co-products, additionality, and potential differentiation for monitoring, reporting, and verification based on project scale.

Following publication of the Minimum Quality Thresholds, the supplier will develop more detailed technology-specific methodologies via PASs, each covering a subset of the GGR value chain such as biomass supply or carbon capture and transport and storage.