Norwegian company Carbon Centric has secured a pre-project funding grant from Enova—Norway’s climate-backing state enterprise established under the wing of the country’s Ministry of Climate and Environment.
With this support, Carbon Centric will fuel operations towards a carbon capture facility planned for installation at Norske Skog’s bioenergy plant in Skogn, at a paper mill site ranked as one of Europe’s largest producers of newsprint.
At this location, Carbon Centric will deploy a carbon capture technology that will tackle CO2 emissions mainly from steam production by burning sustainable biomass, with a long-term vision of capturing approximately 100,000 tonnes of biogenic emissions per year.
The announcement specifies that the secured Enova grant, totaling more than $9 million (NOK 9.51 million), covers 50% of the pre-project funding, with a final investment decision expected to be made by 2027.
To provide the funding, Enova will allocate means from the Climate and Energy Fund, which relies on Norway’s national budget to support projects and innovations aligned with the country’s sustainability transition towards effective climate and energy solutions.
As the manager of the Climate and Energy Fund, Enova operates with significant autonomy in its policy-developing decisions and the choice of projects selected to receive state support.
The grant released for the Skogn project is part of Enova’s “Industry 2050” program, aimed at backing the development of green technologies and industrial carbon capture projects in Norway.
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Its decision to support Carbon Centric’s new initiative at Skogn builds on a track record of previously approved state grants for the company, such as the funding granted for a carbon capture project at Solør Bioenergi’s waste-to-energy plant in Kirkenær.
Carbon Centric is on a mission of tackling CO2 emissions in hard-to-abate sectors like bio- and waste incineration through a growing network of projects located in Norway, including sites in Rakkestad, Trehørningen, Kalka, and Treklyngen.
On its website, the company has shared that the Skogn carbon capture facility is slated to launch operations in 2028-2029.
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