For buyers

BECCS projects in Europe

10 developers, active in 4 EU countries. Every entry has at least one piece of evidence that does not come from the developer. Most recent check 2026-10-14.

What it is

Biomass is burned or processed for energy, and the CO₂ from the flue gas is captured and stored permanently underground. Because the plants took that carbon from the air, storing it removes it.

For buyers, in short

CRCF unit	Permanent carbon removal
CRCF methodology	In force Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/285, in force 7 May 2026. 15-year activity period for CCS projects.
Certified CRCF units today	None. No certification scheme has been recognised yet, so no project can carry a CRCF unit today.
SBTi net-zero	Removals are the only credit type the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2.0 accepts for neutralising residual emissions (criterion C46).
CSRD reporting	Under ESRS E1-7 (Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772), removals and credits are disclosed separately. Gross Scope 1 to 3 stays unadjusted, credits are not netted against it. A simplified version of the ESRS is in progress.
EU ETS	The Commission's EU ETS proposal of 17 July 2026 would auction 250 million extra allowances over 2031 to 2040 and use the revenue to buy CRCF-certified BioCCS and DACCS centrally. The removals would not enter the ETS directly. It is a proposal and still under negotiation.
Price range	$200 to $600 per tonne (worldwide, all registries). The report describes these as current costs. Source: World Economic Forum with Oliver Wyman, Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies: Market Overview and Offtake, March 2026. Indicative, not an offer. Prices depend on contract length, volume, delivery date, whether units are already issued or sold ahead, the registry and scarcity. No CRCF unit has been issued yet, so no CRCF price exists.

The developers

Developer	Country	Status	Registry	Evidence
Beccs Stockholm	SE	Developer-stated	First CRCF transaction	Source
Bigadan	DK	Developer-stated	NECCS contract	Source
BioCirc	DK	Developer-stated	Puro.earth, preliminarily assessed	Source
Öresundskraft	SE	Developer-stated	Innovation Fund, FID taken	Source
Ørsted BECCS	DK	Developer-stated	Announced offtake	Source
Planeteers	DE	Developer-stated	Isometric (Biogenic Carbon Capture and Storage)	Source
Stora Enso (Skutskar)	SE	Developer-stated	BioCCS pilot	Source
Sysav	SE	Developer-stated	Industriklivet-funded	Source
The Carbon Removers	DK	Developer-stated	NECCS contract	Source
Vantaa Energy Carbon Capture	FI	Developer-stated	BioCCS project	Source

Status is our own three-step scale, not EU terminology. Developer-stated means the developer says it; Registry-verified means we found issued units in a public registry. How this list is compiled

Before you buy

How much of the CO₂ is biogenic? Only CO₂ from biomass counts as a removal. Plants that also burn fossil fuel or mixed waste capture both, so ask how the biogenic share is measured.
Has the project reached a final investment decision? Most European BECCS projects are still before it, and deliveries are years away. Ask for the delivery schedule, not just the volume.
Where and how is the CO₂ stored? It has to go into permanent geological storage, which in Europe today mostly means North Sea storage sites reached by ship or pipeline.

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