The Global CCS Institute’s CCS Technologies 2026 compendium catalogues more than 190 solutions from over 90 companies, charting how capture, transport and storage options are maturing as projects near final investment decisions.
The Global CCS Institute has published its annual State of the Art: CCS Technologies 2026 compendium, a catalogue of more than 190 capture, transport and storage solutions from over 90 companies. Released on 22 July, the report gives project developers, engineers and policymakers a snapshot of which carbon capture and storage technologies are moving from pilot to commercial use across heavy industry and power generation.
Compiled by Hugh Barlow, the institute’s senior carbon capture technology lead, the compendium connects technology providers with the developers weighing their options. Submissions have grown again this year, the institute said, as more companies push to commercialise carbon management systems. The organisation frames it as a working reference for a market that is changing quickly.
The report tracks a widening set of capture methods. Amine solvent systems still dominate commercial deployment, helped by a long operating record that gives buyers confidence. Newer approaches, including adsorbents, membranes and hybrid systems, are advancing steadily towards wider adoption. That spread matters for the hard-to-abate sectors, where different flue gases and plant designs call for different capture routes.
Commercial options now cover a broad range of industrial sectors and carbon dioxide concentrations, according to the institute. The finding points to capture becoming more adaptable to varied emissions sources, from concentrated process streams in cement and chemicals to more dilute flue gas at power stations. For operators, a wider menu of proven systems lowers the risk of committing to a single unready technology.
Storage technology has also moved on. Better site characterisation, monitoring and risk assessment give developers firmer grounds to show that projects can meet technical, regulatory and community expectations. That certainty is central to securing finance and permits, since a capture plant is only as useful as the storage it feeds. This year’s cover features the Ravenna CCS project in Italy, run by Eni and Snam, one of Europe’s larger storage developments.
The institute will discuss the findings at an editor’s insights webinar on 23 July, examining the more than 190 solutions and the trends identified during the report’s preparation. The session is aimed at the developers, engineers and policymakers who form the compendium’s audience.
Governments and industry increasingly treat carbon capture as part of long-term decarbonisation plans for steel, cement, chemicals and refining. Policy support and investment commitments have grown, though analysts continue to stress that deployment must accelerate through the rest of the decade if capture is to cut industrial and power emissions at scale.
For industrial emitters and their investors, the compendium is a map of what is available now and what sits close behind. As more projects approach final investment decisions, the institute argues that faster technology deployment will shape how much heavy industry can cut before 2030.
