ECOERA Millennium 1 Hammenhög Skånefrö

ECOERA is a Swedish biochar innovation company awarded the WWF Climate Solver company label.

They have been in the biochar field for over ten years and in 2009 created Sweden’s first large-scale biochar carbon removal in agricultural fields. They were part of developing the Biochar Carbon Offset Methodology and specifically the Biochar Carbon Stability Test Method under the International Biochar Initiative.

The biochar is produced from residue biomass streams from agricultural seed production. Residues that would otherwise be wasted or decompose.

The Ecoera mission is to be part of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an industrial capacity, with the aim to reach pre-industrial levels of 350 ppm CO2 before the end of the century, while making the agricultural land fertile enough to feed 10 billion people on this planet.

How it works

The pyrolysis process is a way to condense the CO2 from the biomass and stabilize it into biochar for hundreds to thousands of years. The carbon stability in the biochar is 3rd party verified through being compliant with the standards of the European Biochar Certificate (EBC) and the Puro.earth Biochar methodology. The facility at the Skånefrö facilities in Hammenhög, the foundation for ECOERA Millennium 1 is producing EBC certified biochar and the heat generated is supplied to a district heating grid.

The system is possible to be replicated at many new sites. The carbon removal purchases enable and accelerate their work to establish a new biochar production site.

The location for the biochar production system is 55.506702, 14.154831.

Outside of LCA our biochar has the following climate impacts:

1: Biochar has agricultural benefits, and our own growth trials together with our co-owner Skånefrö have resulted in 10-33% yield increase.

2: Use of biochar can lower the need for artificial fertilizers. Most of our biochar is applied to farmlands and avoid N2O emissions from fertilizers.

3: Replacement of synthetic turf grass in soccer fields. Synthetic turf is made from fossil sources.