EU’s First Large-Scale Carbon Storage Site Opens in Denmark

The significance lies less in the storage volume than in the regulatory precedent: Green Sand is the first EU project to test whether cross-border CO2 transport and subsea injection can function under existing frameworks. That matters for the wider CCS pipeline, since most proposed European projects depend on shared infrastructure and liability rules that remain untested at scale. The open question is whether this first phase de-risks permitting and monitoring for follow-on sites, or exposes bottlenecks that slow the broader build-out.