Denmark has officially started CO2 storage at its Greensand project in the North Sea, the first full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) site in the EU. The facility, located 200 km off the Danish coast, will store 400,000 tonnes of CO2 per year initially, with plans to scale up to 4-8 million tonnes by 2030. The CO2 comes from Danish biomethane plants and is shipped from Esbjerg in liquefied form. The project is part of the EU's Net-Zero Industry Act, which targets at least 50 million tonnes of annual storage capacity by 2030. Norway's Northern Lights project, the world's first commercial CO2 transport and storage service, carried out its first injection in August 2025 and plans to increase capacity to five million tonnes per year by 2030. These projects are crucial for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries like cement and steel.
