'Limited' future for gas in the UK without carbon capture

Report from UK Energy Research Centre warns of limitations of scope for gas expansion without carbon capture and storage technology

Gas will have a severely limited role to play in the UK's energy mix in the next two decades without the development of technology to capture and store carbon dioxide, a new report has found.

The government has been proposing an expansion of gas use as a "bridging" technology that emits less carbon than coal, which ministers have said will be phased out as a power generation source by 2025.