The German climate tech company Novocarbo has announced the kick-off for its largest Carbon Removal Park (CDR-Park) in Germany to date. The latest site of the Hamburg-based start-up, which uses the PYREG net-zero technology to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere, produce biochar, and generate renewable energy, is being built in Bochum in collaboration with the municipal utility of the city. Stadtwerke Bochum is the first municipal utility in a major German city to use climate-neutral heat from biochar production to make its district heating network greener. This is already the second carbon removal park that Novocarbo is going to open in Germany on the basis of the PYREG carbonization technology.

Climate-neutral heat for 26,000 households

Stadtwerke Bochum will source regenerative heat from the Carbon Removal Park Bochum all year round, thereby making the district heating supply in Bochum with currently around 26,000 connected households greener. “We very much welcome Novocarbo’s involvement in Bochum and are happy to support innovative, pioneering companies and technologies as part of our partnerships. Novocarbo offers us the opportunity to broaden our heat generation portfolio and make it greener. The surplus energy generated in the pyrolysis process is fed directly into our district heating network. The project is therefore an important building block for the decarbonisation of district heating in Bochum,” explains Elke Temme, Managing Director of Stadtwerke Bochum Holding GmbH.

Four PYREG plants form technical basis of Carbon Removal Park

The Carbon Removal Park in Bochum will be built from the end of 2024 on a site belonging to USB Bochum GmbH (USB) in Markstraße. By using four PX1500 pyrolysis plants from PYREG, around 6,000 tonnes of CO₂ will be removed from the atmosphere, 15,000 MWh of climate-neutral heat will be generated, and 3,300 tonnes of biochar will be produced on an area of 4,500 m² from mid-2025. Novocarbo is investing around 14 million euros in the new site in Bochum. The start-up plans to open around 200 Carbon Removal Parks by 2033.

Caspar von Ziegner, CEO Novocarbo: “Our goal is to accelerate the economy‘s transition to Net Zero and to support companies in decarbonising with our green heat solution. Together with Stadtwerke Bochum, we can make a valuable contribution to climate neutrality in Germany in one of its most densely populated metropolitan regions.”

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The market-leading Biochar Carbon Removal technology turns woodchip residues into CO2-binding premium biochar and generates renewable energy at an industrial site in Redcliffe, Manchester.

PYREG, the European market leader in high-tech plant engineering for the production of biochar, is now entering the UK market, supplying a carbonization plant to Black Bull Biochar (BBB), a UK start-up company, for an industrial site in Radcliffe, Manchester, in the north of England.

Pioneering technology in the field of CO2 removal through carbonization of biomass residues, PYREG plants produce high quality premium biochar while providing renewable energy. By utilizing this excess process heat, the systems support and accelerate the transition to renewable energy by replacing fossil fuels. In addition, biochar stores the carbon sequestered in the biogenic residues in the soil for several thousand years, enabling carbon credits. These can be credited on platforms such as Puro.earth (Nasdaq).

BBB is a greenhouse gas removal start-up based in the United Kingdom. BBB is developing a viable, commercial biochar product for agriculture at its industrial site in Northern England, which will initially be used in the dairy industry. This can remove a significant amount of carbon from the atmosphere, which is stored in farm soils for centuries, while improving soil quality and reducing emissions on farms.

“PYREG and BBB are closing loops by producing high quality biochar and renewable energy while removing CO₂ from the atmosphere. This is a real beacon project, and we are proud to provide the technology. It doesn’t get any better than this!”, says Jörg zu Dohna, CEO of PYREG.

“The biochar market in the UK is fragmented and nascent. BBB are building and expanding a sustainable biochar network of farms and industrial sites from scratch, overcoming barriers to entry. This can only be achieved if we help great manufacturers like PYREG entering new markets.” says Alex Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of Black Bull Biochar. And he adds: “This is a turning point in the UK biochar industry. This is the first time Pyreg have supplied a unit to the UK. BBB have trailblazed that entry route for them and we intend to help Pyreg scale up their presence in this market”.

BBB secured funding through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) from the UK Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) after achieving success in the final round of the Direct Air Capture (DAC) & Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) innovation competition.

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