High capital costs, permitting delays, and complex regulations challenge the commercialization of carbon capture, utilization, and storage.
CCUS project developers and industrial emitters in hard-to-abate sectors face transport bottlenecks, Class VI permitting delays, and uncertain offtake agreements. Proving scalability and cost-competitiveness under 45Q tax credits requires rigorous validation. ADI supports clients with policy and regulatory analysis, market forecasting, techno-economic assessments, and commercial due diligence across the value chain.
What keeps CCUS leaders up at night
Project developers and equipment providers encounter severe capital requirements alongside high operating costs for CO₂ capture, transportation, utilization, and storage infrastructure. Scaling early-stage direct air capture and industrial carbon capture technologies requires continuous cost benchmarking against established solvents.
Commercial progress depends on coordinating complex value chains across capture sources, pipeline networks, ships, and storage sites. Offtake uncertainty and immature voluntary carbon markets complicate long-term carbon monetization and buyer confidence.
Navigating the Inflation Reduction Act’s 45Q credit scenarios, Class VI injection permitting timelines, and digital monitoring requirements remains mandatory for project execution. Failure to resolve these infrastructure and policy bottlenecks stalls capital deployment and threatens the economic viability of commercial hubs.
Who we are
CCUS advisory, built on 15+ years and 1,000+ projects. Our work spans point-source industrial capture, direct air capture, transport logistics, subterranean storage, and CO₂ utilization pathways globally.
What clients engage us to do
Conduct market intelligence and forecasting
ADI models global and regional CO₂ capture potential, infrastructure networks, and regional hubs. Engagements deliver cost benchmarking and scenario planning evaluating the Inflation Reduction Act 45Q tax credits, direct air capture, and voluntary carbon markets.
Assess direct air and carbon capture technologies
Multi-client and proprietary research provides granular analysis of direct air and carbon capture markets, technological readiness, levelized capture economics, scalability barriers, and competitive developer landscapes.
Evaluate commercial due diligence and investments
Work includes technical and commercial evaluations of CCUS and direct air capture developers, technology licensors, equipment suppliers, and storage operators. Capital providers rely on these assessments for potential acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and project investments.
Design strategic planning and commercialization roadmaps
We formulate go-to-market strategies for early-stage capture and utilization technologies. Business model design focuses on CO₂ offtake, subterranean storage monetization, digital monitoring, reporting, and verification, and generating verifiable carbon credits.
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