The report warns against picking one CCS technology, for fear backing inferior technology. It also urges policymakers first to design financial support for demonstration plants and second to take a long term view because costs may not come down very quickly.
Government must ensure it has independent capability to assess costs to work out whether to continue public funding of CCS, or to look instead at other technologies, said the report.
It also highlights that dealing with storage liabilities also requires careful thought, so that neither are investors dissuaded nor future taxpayers lumped with a potentially very big bill.
See the report, based on a two year study, here.