Several players have now submitted bids to get a share of the large billion-kroner subsidy for CO2 capture and storage.
This became clear on Tuesday, after the deadline for bids for the subsidy funds at the Danish Energy Agency expired.
Both Ørsted and Amager Resource Center in collaboration with the energy company E. ON have bid for the state subsidy pool, which totals 28.7 billion kroner.
It is expected that even more applicants have applied, but this has not been announced yet.
The Energy Agency is still waiting to announce the total number of applicants.
According to Energiwatch, Ørsted will apply for the funds for the Skærbæk power plant, located near Kolding.
Wood chips are burned here to create energy. By capturing the CO2 emissions from here, Ørsted will be able to create so-called negative emissions, because the emissions from biomass are considered to be climate neutral.
Capturing and storing the emissions from here will therefore be categorized as direct CO2 reductions.
Amager Resource Center has joined forces with the international energy company E. ON.
The plan here is to use the billion-kroner grant to establish a capture facility on Amager Bakke, where the capital area's waste is burned.
In a press release, the two companies describe that they will have to use CO2 capture and storage if they want to eliminate emissions from waste incineration.
- Converting residual waste into local heat and electricity for local communities and businesses is the best solution we have. But waste-to-energy still has a challenge: CO2 emissions from the process, says Marten Bunnemann, CEO of E. ON Energy Infrastructure Solutions, in the announcement.
- Therefore, CO2 capture from waste-to-energy is a crucial climate solution that we as a company want to contribute to.
Amager Resource Center has repeatedly tried to obtain support for CO2 capture and storage at their facility. But the waste company's finances have been assessed as too weak for support to be provided.
The Municipality of Copenhagen has therefore supported the project with almost 500 million DKK.
It is hoped that 400,000 tons of CO2 will be reduced.
The support pool of 28.7 billion DKK has been adopted by the Danish Parliament.
The applicants must now go through a longer qualification process with several ongoing tender rounds before the final winner is appointed in the spring of 2026.
After this, the company in question must deliver the reductions as early as 2029.
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