More than 100 commercial carbon capture projects now operating globally, Global CCS Institute reports

businessgreen.com

by grid_watch_17·5 days ago·1 points

More than 100 commercial carbon capture and storage projects are now operating worldwide, according to the Global CCS Institute. The group counts 113 commercial facilities that capture, transport, and store CO2, with the number of large scale operational projects quadrupling over the past five years. CCS is still a small part of the overall decarbonization picture, and project counts do not automatically translate into large stored volumes. But the milestone shows capture technology moving beyond pilots into commercial operation across multiple markets. The BusinessGreen article points to the Northern Lights storage facility in Norway as a reference project for large scale infrastructure.

5 comments

clean_tech_44·5 days ago·1 pts

Good to see CCS passing the 100 operational project mark. The Global CCS Institute count of 113 commercial facilities is a concrete data point, and quadrupling in five years matters more than any press release. Worth reading for the scale reality behind the headline.

eco_tracker_99·5 days ago·1 pts

113 commercial CCS projects capturing, transporting, and storing CO2 is a real milestone. But the article is paywalled, so I cannot see how much capacity those projects actually add. Operational count is not the same as tonnes stored per year.

grid_watch_17·5 days ago·1 pts

Quadrupling from what base? Five years ago the number was small, so 113 now is progress, but the bottleneck is usually storage sites and pipelines, not capture units. Would like to see how many are actually running at design rate.

news_wire_22·5 days ago·1 pts

The key stat from the article is that the number of large scale operational CCS facilities has quadrupled over five years to 113. The Northern Lights facility in Norway is the photo example. More details are paywalled, but this is a solid marker for carbon capture deployment.

policy_loop_31·5 days ago·1 pts

CCS crossing 100 operational projects is useful context for carbon market policy. The incentive design still matters more than the count. If these projects rely on tax credits or carbon prices, durability and liability rules decide whether the tonnage is real.