Carbon Clean Wins Ørsted's FlagshipONE Carbon Capture Contract

Ørsted has awarded the carbon capture equipment supply contract for its FlagshipONE eMethanol project in Sweden to Carbon Clean.

Marking Carbon Clean’s 50th commercial project, the company will capture 70,000 tonnes per year of carbon dioxide (CO2) from a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.

FlagshipONE – scheduled to be operational from 2025 – will combine the biogenic CO2 with renewable hydrogen to produce 50,000 tonnes per year of eMethanol for use in the shipping industry, which today accounts for around 3% of global carbon emissions.

Carbon emissions from shipping have proven hard to abate, but eMethanol is widely believed to be the best scalable green shipping fuel for the next decade.

FlagshipONE will be Ørsted’s first commercial-scale Power-to-X facility and is an important stepping stone towards the company’s ambition of taking a leading position in renewable hydrogen and green fuels.

Aniruddha Sharma, Chair and CEO of Carbon Clean, said the FlagshipONE project not only demonstrates the role carbon capture must play in decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, such as shipping, but also that the technology is ready and there is absolute confidence in our ability to deliver at scale.

Anders Nordstrøm, COO of Ørsted P2X, said it is a milestone project for Ørsted and for the decarbonisation of the maritime industry.