Our heat and power plants use biomass such as straw or wood chips to provide heat and electricity to Danish households. Bioenergy is renewable as the biomass is from sustainably managed forests or agricultural areas that produce wood products or agricultural commodities for society.
To meet the tender criteria, we had to be sure that the storage facilities would be ready in 2025 already. The Northern Lights project will be completed in 2024 and is the most mature carbon storage site in the North Sea.
According to the Danish Energy Agency, Denmark will, however, continue to need a certain amount of sustainable biomass – in combination with heat pumps, electric boilers, and Power-to-X plants – to maintain a high level of reliability of supply.
Storing the CO2 in the North Sea From the Northern Lights onshore storage facilities in Øygarden, Norway, the CO 2 will be pumped through a subsea pipeline to the Aurora storage complex around 100 km offshore. The CO 2 will be injected into the storage complex, which is a 2.6 km deep saline aquifer.