A milestone in reducing greenhouse gas emissions was celebrated yesterday as Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate, formally opened the Steingerður air capture facility at ON Power’s Hellisheiði Geothermal Power Plant. Together with the existing air capture station, Steingerður will have the capacity to capture nearly all CO2 and hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) emissions from Hellisheiði.

Marking a major milestone in the development of commercial-scale geological storage of CO2 in Europe to combat climate change, Carbfix has on 30 April received a storage permit for its injection site at Hellisheiði, Iceland, from the Environment and Energy Agency of Iceland.