- Hafslund Celsio will deliver the world’s first carbon removal retrofit on a waste-to-energy facility.
- Retrofitting existing infrastructure could remove 400 million tons of CO₂ annually by 2050.
- Frontier buyers committed $31.6 million to remove 100,000 tons of CO₂ by 2030.
Hafslund Celsio is pioneering the first-ever carbon capture retrofit at its waste-to-energy facility in Oslo, potentially revolutionizing carbon removal practices across Europe.
The facility processes 350,000 metric tons of sorted residual waste annually, converting it into heat and electricity. The retrofit will capture up to 350,000 tons of CO₂ annually—175,000 tons biogenic and 175,000 tons fossil CO₂—for permanent geological storage at the Northern Lights facility.
Frontier, supported by major corporate buyers including Stripe, Google, Shopify, and JPMorganChase, facilitated an offtake agreement worth $31.6 million to remove 100,000 tons of CO₂ between 2029 and 2030.
Hannah Bebbington, Head of Deployment, Frontier:
“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.”
Waste-to-energy retrofits offer a highly scalable, cost-effective approach to carbon removal, maximizing existing infrastructure without the need for costly new builds.
Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås, Director CCS and Carbon Markets, Hafslund Celsio:
“We’re proud to be the first to take a step toward retrofitting waste-to-energy with carbon removal. Frontier buyers are not only enabling this project to get off the ground, but also validating a model that could be replicated throughout Europe, with the potential to remove tens of millions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere.”
EU waste regulations already prioritize waste-to-energy over landfills, positioning this model as a critical piece of Europe’s decarbonization strategy.
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Terje Aasland, Minister of Energy of Norway:
“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.”
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