{"id":464160,"date":"2026-09-07T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/07\/la-co%e2%82%82-viaggia-verso-la-norvegia-nasce-nei-paesi-bassi-il-piu-grande-impianto-di-stoccaggio-in-ue\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:11:25","slug":"co%e2%82%82-travels-to-norway-eus-largest-storage-facility-launched-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/co%e2%82%82-travels-to-norway-eus-largest-storage-facility-launched-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"CO\u2082 travels to Norway: EU\u2019s largest storage facility launched in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 This time, it\u2019s CO\u2082 that travels: it will board a ship in the Netherlands, cross the North Sea and end up stored over 2,600 metres underground, beneath Norway’s seabed. As of today (7 September), this will be the new route for the CO\u2082 captured at Yara\u2019s plant in Sluiskil, in the Netherlands, as part of the CCS (carbon capture and storage) project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yara\u2019s facility begins operations today. Technically, CO\u2082 will be captured and liquefied at Sluiskil, and permanently stored beneath the North Sea in Norway. The Dutch plant, which produces ammonia and fertilisers, will be able to capture up to 800,000 tonnes of CO\u2082 per year, with a projected total of around 12 million tonnes over the next 15 years. Once liquefied, the CO\u2082 will be transported by ship to \u00d8ygarden, on the west coast of Norway, where it will enter the Northern Lights infrastructure \u2013 developed by Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies \u2013 and will be injected approximately 2,600 metres below the seabed. <\/p>\n

The project is the result of the EU-Norway Green Alliance signed in 2023. The agreement aims to strengthen cooperation on the green transition<\/strong> and, for the EU, Sluiskil is one of the most tangible examples of this. \u201cEuropean cooperation, combining private investment and public support and bringing together industry, the EU, its Member States, and Norway,\u201d said the European Commission in a press release<\/a>. Furthermore, the European Union is helping to make the project between the Netherlands and Norway possible by funding Northern Lights through the<\/strong> Connecting Europe Facility<\/a>. For Brussels, it is therefore an example of how private investment and European funds can support strategic infrastructure for industrial decarbonisation.<\/p>\n

 Today\u2019s inauguration of the Dutch facility \u2013 which is the largest commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Europe \u2013 was attended by the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra<\/strong>, the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re<\/strong>, the Dutch Prime Minister, Rob Jetten<\/strong>, and the Chairman and CEO of Yara International, Svein Tore Holsether<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

It is precisely from Norway that Europe can draw inspiration for the energy transition<\/strong>, given that the country generates almost all of its electricity from renewable sources, primarily hydropower, and has developed infrastructure for CO\u2082 capture and storage that is now also used by European industry. From this perspective, for Brussels, the project demonstrates how emissions can be reduced without weakening Europe\u2019s industrial base. \u201cThis is exactly the kind of project Europe needs to combine climate ambition with a strong and resilient industrial base,\u201d Hoekstra explained. CCS is primarily intended for sectors where reducing emissions is more complex<\/strong>, such as the fertiliser and ammonia sectors, and forms part of the Clean Industrial Deal strategy and the revision of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).<\/p>\n

\u201cEurope must go all\u2011in on energy that is ultra\u2011low\u2011cost, clean, reliable and produced within Europe<\/strong>. Naturally, renewable sources will play a fundamental role in this,\u201d he added. \u201cI am a great advocate of solar energy and wind power; I am also thinking of geothermal energy, and I am also thinking of nuclear power.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Hoekstra, however, the transition must be pragmatic and open to all technologies capable of delivering results. \u201cThis is perhaps also the crux of this whole transition: let\u2019s be pragmatic, let\u2019s be truly open-minded<\/strong>. What matters is what actually works in terms of climate, competitiveness, and independence, and that is precisely what we are seeing today: building a solid industrial base. Reducing emissions and being at the forefront of clean technologies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

 \u201cBut we will need more,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cWe cannot wait for all this to be fully realised<\/strong>, and this is where CCS comes into its own. And that is also why we are here today, but also because Europe has recently announced that we intend to integrate CCS into the ETS system<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The project is the result of the EU-Norway Green Alliance signed in 2023. According to forecasts, the Dutch plant will capture and store around 12 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next 15 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":464145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30800],"tags":[26955,29899,26823,27483,30366,35613,26527,27931,32501,35614,35615,33394,27238],"class_list":["post-464160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-carbon-en","tag-ets-en","tag-transition-green-en","tag-industrialand","tag-jonas-gahr-store-en","tag-mare-del-nord","tag-paesi-bassi-en","tag-norway-en","tag-rob-jetten","tag-sottomarino","tag-stoccaggio","tag-ue","tag-wopke-hoekstra-and"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464161,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464160\/revisions\/464161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}