Danish power plants to export CO2 to Northern Lights subsea reservoir

May 15, 2023

The Danish Energy Agency has awarded Ørsted a 20-year contract for its Ørsted Kalundborg Hub CCS project.

Once the CO2 is captured onshore, Northern Lights says it will be transported by newly designed ships, injected and permanently stored 2,600 m below the seabed of the North Sea.

Offshore staff

From Ørsted Asnæs biomass power station (pictured) and Avedøre power station, 430,000 tonnes of CO2 will be captured annually before its transported by ship to Øygarden, Norway, for permanent storage.

SKAERBAEK, Denmark — The Danish Energy Agency has awarded Ørsted a 20-year contract for its Ørsted Kalundborg Hub carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.

Ørsted will establish carbon capture at its wood chip-fired Asnæs power station in Kalundborg, western Zealand, and at the Avedøre power station’s straw-fired boiler in the Greater Copenhagen area. The capture process should begin in 2025.

From 2026, the 430,000 metric tons per year of biogenic CO₂ generated from the two facilities will be shipped to the Northern Lights storage reservoir in the Norwegian North Sea, under a planned arrangement with the Northern Lights consortium, which is developing the CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure.

Phase 1 of the Northern Lights project should be completed in 2024.

Aker Carbon Capture will deliver five of its Just Catch carbon capture units to the combined heat and power plants in Denmark.

05.15.2023