Denmark's Greensand Future project has officially opened Europe's first commercial offshore CO2 storage facility. Located in the depleted Nini West oil field in the North Sea, the project will capture CO2 from biogas plants, transport it to Esbjerg, and inject it 1,800 meters below the seabed. With a €41 million EU Innovation Fund grant, it aims to store 2.4 million tonnes of CO2 over eight years, moving CCS from pilot to commercial scale. The facility connects capture, transport, and permanent storage in one integrated value chain. EU Commissioner Dan Jørgensen used the inauguration to highlight the bloc's goal of 50 million tonnes of annual storage capacity by 2030. The project also signals growing EU support for cross-border CO2 infrastructure, with nearly €1 billion already allocated via the Connecting Europe Facility. This is a concrete step toward making CCS a working part of Europe's decarbonization toolkit.
