LanzaTech Global lands $46M EU grant for Norwegian 2G bioreactor

In Norway, LanzaTech Global announced the awarding of a €40 million grant from the European Union’s Innovation Fund, subject to the finalization of the grant agreement. The project, featuring the first commercial deployment of LanzaTech’s second-generation bioreactor, aims to produce 23.5 kt (~8M U.S. gallons) of ethanol per year by consuming smelter furnace greenhouse gases (GHG) from the Porsgrunn Manganese Smelter operated by Eramet Norway AS, a world leading ferroalloy producer.

If fully implemented to include carbon capture and storage LanzaTech and Eramet Norway AS seek to achieve up to a 97% reduction in emissions, targeting an annual GHG avoidance of 1,698,175 tons CO2e. A co-product of the process, highly concentrated CO2, will be purified, liquefied and transported for permanent geological storage in the North Sea, ensuring robust and sustainable disposal of carbon emissions.