- Microsoft will purchase up to 2.95 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from the Gaia waste-to-energy (WtE) carbon capture retrofit, beginning in 2029.
- The offtake agreement enables Gaia to capture and store up to 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually, advancing commercial viability for carbon capture in WtE facilities across Europe.
- The project expands district heating capacity to over 10,000 additional homes, linking decarbonization to local energy resilience.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Energy Transition Fund (CI ETF I), and Danish waste management utility Vestforbrænding have entered into a long-term carbon removal offtake agreement with Microsoft via their joint venture,
