Renewable energy company Evero will undertake two CCS retrofit projects expected to generate as much as 400,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDRs) p.a. by 2030.

The investments in the company’s Ince Biopower plant located near Ellesmere Port and the Mersey Bioenergy plant located near Widnes follow the UK government’s announcement on 4 October that it had given the go ahead on a £22bn investment into CCS, including the Hynet cluster. Both plants passed the ‘deliverability assessment’ in the Hynet Track 1 expansion process.

The plants already process over 300,000 tonnes of locally sourced waste wood, which would otherwise go into landfill, into renewable electricity.

Evero CEO Simon Hicks says the company’s local sourcing approach could be repeated at all waste-wood fuelled renewable electricity plants across the UK, “with a total CO₂ removal potential of 3.6 million tons per annum.”