Project Silverstone

Project Silverstone an innovative EU-funded project will deploy full-scale CO2 capture, injection, and mineral storage at the Hellisheiði ON Power plant, reaching world's first near-zero carbon footprint geothermal power plant.

About the Silverstone Project

The Carbfix capture and injection demonstration plant has been operational at Hellisheiði since 2014 injecting about 12,000 tonnes of CO2 annually. With the addition of the Silverstone project, 34,000 tonnes of CO2 will be captured and injected annually.

Project Silverstone is expected to reduce emissions by 150,000 tonnes of CO2 over the project lifetime.

This project alone will deliver 10% of Iceland's Climate Action Plan calls for by 2030 within the energy and industrial sectors not covered by the EU ETS.

Through the project, a new CO2-optimised capture plant will be constructed resulting in 150,000 tonnes of CO2 being mineralized.

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