Hafslund Celsio enters the world’s first carbon removal offtake agreement for waste-to-energy CCS retrofit

Frontier founders Stripe, Google, Shopify, McKinsey Sustainability, and members Autodesk, H&M Group, JPMorgan Chase, Workday, and Salesforce purchased as part of this round of offtakes. Aledade, Match Group, Samsara, SKIMS, Skyscanner, Wise, and Zendesk will also participate with purchases via Frontier’s partnership with Watershed.

"We are proud to have entered into a carbon removal agreement with some of the world's leading companies. Frontier’s members are helping to realize the world’s first full-scale carbon capture facility on waste incineration and confirming that the sale of carbon removal is an essential tool for financing carbon capture projects globally," says Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås, Director of CCS and Carbon Markets at Hafslund Celsio.

Hafslund Celsio’s carbon capture project is made possible through a public and private partnership. As part of Norway’s state-supported demonstration project, Longship, the Norwegian government, the city of Oslo, and Hafslund Celsio are working together to establish one of the world’s first full-scale carbon capture facilities for waste incineration. The project will capture and store approximately 350,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually, of which around 150,000 tonnes will count as carbon removal through the permanent storage of biogenic CO₂.

“I am pleased to see that the voluntary carbon removal market is adopting carbon removals in hard-to-abate sectors such as waste incineration. This kind of public-private cooperation contributes to creating a functioning market that will accelerate development of further projects in this segment both nationally and internationally", says Energy Minister Terje Aasland.

Frontier is committed to strengthening demand for carbon removal in the voluntary carbon market and facilitating agreements that support the development of the next generation of permanent carbon removal projects.

“Waste-to-energy retrofitted with carbon capture is a no-brainer solution for managing pre-sorted, residual waste: it generates carbon-free energy and removes CO₂ from the atmosphere. Hafslund Celsio is set to become the first to do it, charting a path for the 500 waste-to-energy facilities across Europe to remove tens of millions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere”, says Hannah Bebbington, Head of Deployment at Frontier.

Hafslund Celsio is building the world’s first full-scale carbon capture facility at an existing waste incineration plant with permanent storage - creating a model that can serve as a roadmap for other waste incineration plants in Europe.

The incineration process results in two types of CO₂ emissions, each responsible for about half of the total:

Biogenic CO₂ emissions come from the combustion of organic materials such as unsorted food waste, non-recyclable paper, and cardboard.

Fossil CO₂ emissions come from the combustion of inorganic materials such as non-recyclable plastics.

Contact Information

Frontier
media@frontierclimate.com

Hafslund Celsio
Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås, Director of CCS and Carbon Markets
jannicke.bjerkas@celsio.no
+47 905 63 094

[1] The price accounts for both the removal itself as well as measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) that each ton is safely and permanently stored.