In a ceremony held on 4 November during the PCI Energy Days, five grant agreements were signed under the Connecting Europe Facility for Energy.

The projects were selected by CEF Energy to contribute to the construction and development of an EU-wide infrastructure connecting multiple carbon dioxide sources and storage sites.

Specifically, the projects will support the transport of nearly 35 million tonnes of CO₂ per year from industrial emitters towards permanent geological storage. The EU’s overall annual target of CO₂ injection capacity as set out in the Net Zero Industry Act is 50 million tonnes.

List of projects:

• Northern Lights: has received a EUR 131 million grant to expand the CO₂ storage capacity of the Northern Lights Initiative from 1.5 Mtpa to over 5 Mtpa.
• CO2next: awarded EUR 33 million of CEF funding to develop, build and operate a hub terminal in the Port of Rotterdam for the reception, temporary storage and transit of liquid CO_2.
• Aramis: awarded EUR 124 million to set up a CCUS infrastructure from emitters in hard-to-abate industrial sectors in Northwest Europe to stores in the Dutch continental shelf.
• D’Artagnan: Dunkirk CO2 Hub: awarded over EUR 161 million of CEF funding to implement phase one of a project to develop open-access infrastructure in France for the transport, liquefaction, and export via shipping of CO₂, captured from hard-to-abate industries in Dunkirk and its hinterland.
• Studies4CCS Interconnector: awarded EUR 2.5 million to develop studies related to the design, feasibility and cost of building an open access multi-modal liquid CO₂ import-export terminal in Gdańsk (Poland), with related CO₂ transport infrastructure from the facilities of industrial emitters to the pan-European CCS network.