UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Mapping the UK’s path to net zero
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The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is leading a governmental mission to secure the UK’s long-term energy supply, bring down bills, and reach net zero. Core to fulfilling that mission is the Carbon Capture, Usage, and Storage (CCUS) programme, aimed at helping decarbonise industry and enabling the generation of low carbon energy and low carbon hydrogen production at scale.
As one of the UK Government’s mega programmes, the stakes in late 2024 were high, with DESNZ confirming funding of up to £21.7bn for projects over the next 25 years.
With the first contracts for carbon capture signed, the challenge for DESNZ was to deliver a programme which is both commercially and environmentally beneficial.”
CCUS needed a partner who could offer an end-to-end service from advisory to delivery all in service of creating ‘clusters’ of industrial, power, and hydrogen projects for transport and storage infrastructure.
Together with our strategic partner Jacobs, a technical professional services firm, we can provide advisory, consultancy, innovation, design, and analytics expertise. Jacobs will handle the technical project management, strategy and change management, data, risk, and quality aspects of the project. We will draw on our deep expertise in technology, design, and analytics to ensure the approach to carbon capture is bold and innovative, yet also practical.
Initial work has been completed to help CCUS to understand where the programme can be better supported by a maturing Programme Management Office (PMO) function and how to improve the programme’s ability to better understand and manage scheduling risk. Together with Jacobs, we continue to operate together as one integrated team delivering for DESNZ on one of the mega programmes on the UK Government’s agenda in the mission-critical transition to net zero.
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