The purpose of project SIMPLY is to accelerate the implementation of biomass-based pyrolysis - Pyrolysis Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (PyCCUS) in Denmark and contribute to achievement of the overall Danish policy goal to reduce GHG emissions with 70% by 2030 compared with 1990 and become climate neutral by 2050.

• The overall objectives of the SIMPLY project are to:
  Contribute to INNO-CCUS climate target to reduce GHG emission with 0.2 million tons CO2e per year in 2025 and 2-4 million tons CO2e per year in 2030.
• Contribute to achieving the climate target to reduce GHG emission with 2 million ton of CO2e per year by 2030 from PyCCUS as part of the Danish political agreements on climate transition of the agricultural sector.

Currently, the climate contribution from Danish pyrolysis is however close to zero and is only expected to slightly increase to 0.05 million tons of CO2e per year by 2025. There thus is urgent need for action if these overall objectives are to be achieved.

Recent studies highlight the significant potential of PyCCUS as a means of action for reducing GHG emissions, and several mayor R&D projects are already working to optimize the technology and address natural science knowledge gaps.

The SIMPLY project seeks to accelerate the deployment of pyrolysis production by analyzing key societal and contextual barriers and how they can be overcome. These main barriers can be categorized into two groups:

• Regulatory barriers and lack of best practices for permitting and planning at the local level
• Lack of knowledge among key stakeholders and need for creating efficient incentives structures across value chains

The SIMPLY project expands on the already significant knowledge base created by technical and natural science R&D projects linked to biomass-based pyrolysis with new knowledge on social science and system analysis issues related to efficient roll-out of pyrolysis.

SIMPLY is supported by the INNO-CCUS partnership with funds from Innovation Fund Denmark. The total project budget is 8.3 million DKK.

Read more about Innovation Fund Denmark.

Read more about INNO-CCUS partnership.

Project SIMPLY lasts from September 2023 to September 2026.