UK's First Carbon Storage Permit Granted; Domtar & Svante Partner Up

The Low Carbon Briefing

January 31, 2025

UK’s North Sea Transit Authority (NTSA) awards first ever UK carbon storage permit for the Endurance project with TotalEnergies, BP, and Equinor as storage partners. The project is permitted to inject 4 million metric tons per year with an estimated storage capacity of 100 million tons. The captured CO2 is expected to come from Teesside projects including NZT Power, H2Teesside, and Teesside Hydrogen CO2 capture. The project is located offshore UK in the North Sea.
Shell increases equity stake in Canada’s Quest CCS project by swapping interest (and exit) in their own sands business
Svante was selected by DOE's Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization office for pre-FEED study for Domtar's Ashdown Pulp Mill in Arkansas. The cost-sharing agreement will provide up to $1.5 million in funding. The Pulp and Paper industry has seen a renaissance with the ability to generate highly sought CDR credits.

German-based INERATEC has received a €70M funding package from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, under the EU Catalyst partnership. INERATEC plans to develop e-SAF to support European aviation decarbonization.
Liquid win received permit for their e-Fuel facility in Umeå, Sweden that will be connected to Umeå Energi's cogeneration plant Dåvaverket. The facility can capture 230,000 tons of carbon dioxide and produce up to 130,000 tons of e-Methanol yearly. The Nordics lead e-Fuel development with abundant RFNBO compliant biogenic CO2 and one of the lowest carbon-intensity grids in the world, measuring at 41 gCO2/kWh compared to 369 gCO2/kWh in the U.S.
Evonik, a German specialty chemicals company, and VoltH2, a Dutch green hydrogen company, have signed a preliminary agreement to build a 50 MW electrolyzer. This electrolyzer will produce green hydrogen to be used in the production of hydrogen peroxide at Evonik’s facility in Delfzijl, a port city in northern Netherlands. The project is expected to be up and running by 2027.
Green hydrogen is coming to Austria - Styria, Upper Austria and Carinthia are investing $578 million Euros for 17 projects spanning the entire value chain from production to consumption. The funding is expected to support the 10,000 tons of yearly production by 2030 and an expected demand of 13,000 tons per year.

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