Super anti-carbon plant - Netherlands opens largest facility in Europe. 800 thousand tons of CO₂ per year
One of Europe's largest carbon reduction projects has officially started operations in the Netherlands. Yara's Sluiskil plant has become the largest commercial carbon capture and storage facility in Europe.
The system will enable the capture and liquefaction of up to 800,000 tons of CO₂ per year, which comes from industrial ammonia production. The carbon will not be released into the atmosphere, but will be transported by ship to Norway to be stored permanently under the North Sea.
The CO₂ will be transported from the Netherlands to the Northern Lights facility in Norway, where it will be injected about 2,600 meters below the seabed. The project envisages capturing and storing about 12 million tons of CO₂ over the next 15 years.
This is a cross-border project connecting Dutch industry with Norwegian carbon storage infrastructure and is also supported by the European Union through the Connecting Europe program.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by senior European, Dutch and Norwegian officials, including the European Commissioner for Climate, Zero-Emissions and Clean Growth, the Norwegian Prime Minister and the Dutch Prime Minister.
Commissioner Hoekstra described the project as an example of what can be achieved through cross-border cooperation, combining climate objectives with the need to maintain the competitiveness of European industry.
For Yara, the project is a strategic investment in reducing emissions from ammonia and fertilizer production. The technology is also expected to help produce products with a lower carbon footprint and create opportunities for the use of ammonia as a lower-emission fuel in maritime transport.
The project is seen as an important test for the development of the European market for carbon capture, transport and storage, a technology that is increasingly seen as one of the means to reduce emissions from heavy industries.
For Europe, the challenge now is to ensure that such models do not remain isolated projects, but are transformed into a broader infrastructure network that allows high-emission industries to reduce carbon, without losing production capacity and competitiveness.
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