Electricity and gas transmission company National Grid is considering plans to transport carbon dioxide to underground storage facilities in the North Sea.
The company is drawing up plans for a £2 billion network of pipelines to carry the liquefied carbon emissions away from power plants, the Times reports.
"National Grid would provide the gathering system to collect the carbon and store it offshore," Chris Train, director of network operations told the newspaper. "Our expertise is very much in running safe and effective pipeline networks, so the transport and storage of carbon fits in very well with that."
He added that a carbon emissions transmission network would have an important role to play in creating a competitive energy industry given CO2 emissions reduction targets and growing demand for energy.
