Frontier buyers commit $41 million for 116,000 tonnes of Arbor BECCS carbon removal

Frontier buyers will pay Arbor $41 million for the removal of 116,000 tonnes of CO₂ between 2028 and 2030. This funding will support Arbor's first commercial Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) facility, expected to be operational in 2028 near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Arbor's system, which combines biomass gasification, oxycombustion, and supercritical CO₂ turbomachinery, claims a CO₂ capture rate exceeding 99% and produces up to 1,000 kWh of clean electricity per tonne of CO₂ removed. The deal aims to test a new, highly efficient BECCS approach that also generates clean electricity, particularly for data centres.