World’s first carbon-negative energy system planned: biomass with carbon storage

Dutch media report that diversified energy firm Nuon is in the final stages of creating the world’s first large-scale carbon-negative energy system in Eemshaven, the Netherlands.

The system comes close to what scientists describe as ‘Bio-Energy with Carbon Storage’ (BECS), thought to be one of the most effective technology routes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a radical way. Nuon is building a large (1200MW) coal gasification plant that will co-fire increasing amounts of biomass, capture the carbon dioxide released and bury it in depleted natural gas fields (of which there are more and more in the Netherlands). The result is a carbon-negative energy system.

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