LinkedIn of Phoenix energy4 Mar 2024 09:53
A confluence of trends has made it a more exciting time than ever to be in the Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage space (BECCS). This Friday, at the LLNL Roads to Removal symposium on the beautiful UC Merced campus, our Phoenix team sat in the audience and listened with excitement as scientists and researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) validated with science and data, the importance of our work. 🙌
We also heard from Government officials such as California Secretary of Agriculture, Karen Ross, and industry thought leaders blazing trails in climate science, about how BECCS (BiCRS) is an essential tool in the toolbox for helping our Nation reach its Net Zero 2050 goal.
A link to the LLNL Roads to Removal study here: https://roads2removal.org/
It was really humbling to see our North Fork Community Plant (NFCP) featured prominently on many presentations as proof and example of carbon removal (CDR) in California at the event since this month at Phoenix we kick off our efforts to have real impact with NFCP commissioning and set to sequester 4500 MTCO2e annually. This number might seem small in the grand scheme of the work we have in front of us as a Nation, but if Phoenix can execute on its ten year plan, our network of small and mighty community-scale plants are expected to sequester 47 Million MTCO2e. And this is just our CDR impact....
Equally important is the workhorse our plants are for the state of California's wildfire abatement programs and the support our plants can offer landfills for meeting requirements of SB 1383 - a measure that was passed in an effort to divert organics from our landfills to help further reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change.
The LLNL event made us super optimistic that we have established ourselves in the climate action landscape. However, we will not lose sight of the work we are doing to deliver clean, renewable energy to Californians 24/7 which is why our CEO, Greg Stangl, never sleeps...as we post he is on an airplane to the 17th Annual International Biomass Conference & Expo in Virginia!