The CCS Midt-Norge cluster

Final report from the CCS Midt-Norge project, documenting two years of work to design a shared CCS cluster for Mid-Norway involving five industrial facilities — Franzefoss Minerals, Statkraft Varme, Elkem, Wacker, and Equinor Tjeldbergodden — across lime, district heating, silicon, and natural gas processing. The project is a concrete demonstration of the shared hub model in practice: by pooling capture infrastructure and CO₂ transport logistics across facilities that would struggle to justify CCS individually, the cluster unlocks viability for the entire group. The Midt-Norge work is one of the cleaner evidence cases for why aggregation is not just a cost-optimisation strategy but a prerequisite for CCS access among mid-sized industrial emitters.