Aerial view of the Evero Ince Bio Power waste wood biomass facility located near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, UK, which has been selected as the nation’s first Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) project (Credit: Evero Energy)

Evero has submitted a planning application for a carbon capture project at its Ince Bio Power facility in Cheshire, moving one of the UK’s leading bioenergy with carbon capture and storage projects closer to construction.

The proposed InBECCS project forms part of the HyNet industrial cluster in north-west England and is designed to capture up to 250,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. Evero is targeting operations from 2030.

Ince Bio Power currently generates electricity from domestically sourced Category C waste wood that would otherwise have limited uses beyond landfill. Adding carbon capture would allow the facility to combine renewable baseload generation with the removal of biogenic carbon from the atmosphere.

Captured CO2 would be transported through HyNet’s shared infrastructure before being permanently stored beneath the Irish Sea. The project was selected as a priority under the government’s Track-1 expansion process for carbon capture clusters in 2025.

The planning submission is significant because BECCS is expected to provide part of the UK’s future supply of engineered carbon removals, alongside measures to reduce emissions from energy and industry. Its attraction lies in combining energy production with the potential for net removal of CO2, provided the biomass source and wider carbon accounting support genuine negative emissions.

“InBECCS demonstrates how waste wood management and carbon capture can work together to deliver meaningful climate impact while supporting UK industry,” said Neil Bennett, chief commercial officer at Evero Energy.

The project is also intended to make use of infrastructure being developed across HyNet rather than requiring a standalone carbon transport and storage network. That could reduce some of the infrastructure barriers facing individual carbon capture projects.

Beyond emissions removal, Evero expects the development to support construction and operational employment, domestic supply chains and wider investment in low-carbon infrastructure.

The application now moves the project into the planning process, with further regulatory and commercial milestones required before construction can begin. If delivered as planned, InBECCS would add a significant source of engineered carbon removals to the UK’s developing carbon capture infrastructure from around 2030.