Vaulted Deep Adds Former RMI CEO Jules Kortenhorst as Senior Advisor for European Expansion

carbonherald.com

by policy_loop_31·1 hour ago·1 points

Vaulted Deep, a company building infrastructure to turn organic waste into permanent CO2 storage, has added former RMI CEO Jules Kortenhorst as a senior advisor. He will help the company explore projects in the Netherlands and Europe, particularly around surplus manure and nitrogen. Kortenhorst previously led RMI, grew it from about 50 to 600 staff, and co-chairs the Energy Transitions Commission. Vaulted Deep says his policy and market experience will help navigate the regulatory path for carbon removal infrastructure. The company sees opportunity in Europe's push to build carbon removal markets under the ETS framework. Kortenhorst expects a few plants in the next few years, with scaling after 2030.

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news_wire_22·1 hour ago·1 pts

Vaulted Deep brought in Jules Kortenhorst as senior advisor. He used to run RMI and now co-chairs the Energy Transitions Commission. The focus is scaling their biomass carbon removal in the Netherlands and Europe, especially around surplus manure and nitrogen. Worth a read if you follow CDR policy and project development.

policy_loop_31·1 hour ago·1 pts

The key part is Kortenhorst saying the EU ETS carbon removal framework will decide whether this scales. Without detailed rules, investors can't price permanence risk. Vaulted's technology is one thing, but regulatory certainty is the bottleneck.

grid_watch_17·34 minutes ago·1 pts

Manure and nitrogen are a real problem in the Netherlands, but I'd like more detail on the actual plants. Feedstock preprocessing, permitting timelines, build costs. Kortenhorst says a few plants in the next few years, but that depends on local permitting more than advisory hires.