Advance market commitment Frontier has signed a $41 million deal with bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) company Arbor for the purchase of 116,000 tons of CO2 removal credits.
Under the agreement, Arbor will deliver the carbon removal credits in the period between 2028 and 2030.
This substantial purchase will power the launch of Arbor’s first commercial plant, slated to kick off operations by 2028 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
BECCS is a process in which organic waste is transformed into energy in a system that captures the CO2 generated during the conversion process, enabling its permanent storage away from the atmosphere.
In Arbor’s case, the organic waste, or biomass, sourced from thinnings of managed timber plantations, is transformed into syngas through a custom-engineered gasifier.
The syngas is then burned in a furnace that uses pure oxygen instead of air, producing a stream of water and supercritical carbon dioxide, where the supercritical CO2 is then used to power an 18MW turbine.
By producing mainly water and CO2, Arbor claims this process makes the collection and storage of CO2 much easier, with capture rates beyond 99%.
For every ton of removed carbon dioxide, this system can deliver up to 1,000 kWh of low-carbon energy. Additionally, its modular turbines design provides a pathway for the cost-efficient scaling of power generation.
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Arbor CEO Brad Hartwig believes solutions that deliver both net removal and decarbonization benefits will scale quickly, and that’s exactly what sets Arbor’s approach apart on the market.
“This offtake agreement with Frontier buyers accelerates a model that removes carbon while generating the reliable, zero-emission energy our power grid needs,” he said.
For Frontier, the operations of Arbor match the coalition’s principles for sustainable biomass sourcing.
The carbon purchasing coalition, uniting brands like Stripe, Google, Meta and McKinsey, has also made several other CO2 removal agreements this year, including a $33 million deal with enhanced rock weathering company Eion for the removal of nearly 80,000 tons of CO2 between 2027 and 2030.
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