One of the big unknown costs for CCS has always been insurance - it's also a show stopper. Companies are unlikely to self insure (they probably won't have the capital just lying about just-in-case something goes wrong), meaning that unless they can get insurance nothing will happen.
Zurich insurance services has just announced a carbon capture and storage insurance package - covering this gap.
Obviously they can't even give a rough cost estimate, since the insurance is highly bespoke, I would imagine depending upon such things as geology, volume of CO2 to be stored, purity (etc.).
It's another step in the right direction.
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