Oslo-based power and heat provider Hafslund Celsio announced today a new carbon removal offtake agreement with Microsoft, with the tech giant purchasing more than 1 million tons of carbon credits over ten years, to be generated by a new carbon capture project at Norway’s largest waste-to-energy plant.
Hafslund Celsio operates the Klemetsrud waste-to-energy facility in Oslo which incinerates around 350,000 metric tons of sorted residual waste each year, with excess energy used to produce electricity and heat. The process results in both biogenic CO2 emissions from burning organic material like spoiled paper and cardboard, as well as fossil CO2 emissions from burning inorganic materials such as plastics.
