Luneville Carbon Storage

The Lunéville Carbon Capture & Storage Project is an early-stage carbon capture and sequestration initiative in Lunéville, northeastern France, focused on permanently storing biogenic and industrial CO₂ in deep geological formations. The project is being developed through a collaboration between C-Questra B.V.—an independent European carbon storage developer—and regional partners such as Carbon Impact, a biomass plant operator/developer that is capturing concentrated CO₂ streams from local renewable energy facilities. The initiative targets deep saline aquifers in the Paris Basin at depths exceeding 1,000 meters, where injected CO₂ can be safely and permanently contained under extensive confining layers. C-Questra’s strategy emphasizes sovereign, affordable onshore storage capacity to support industrial and biomass decarbonization, aligning with broader EU climate goals. The Lunéville project aims to enable bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) by capturing CO₂ from adjacent biomass plants that utilize agricultural and forestry residues, thereby removing carbon that was originally absorbed from the atmosphere. Early partnership agreements include commitments to store CO₂ underground and support a circular local decarbonization economy, reinforce sustainable energy production, and create regional green jobs. While specific injection rates and total storage capacity estimates have not yet been publicly disclosed, the project represents a key pilot in Europe’s push for onshore carbon storage infrastructure and permanent CO₂ removal solutions.