ECOERA

ECOERA, a Swedish biochar innovation company, aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an industrial capacity with the aim to reach 350 ppm of carbon dioxide before the end of the century, while making the agricultural land fertile. Since 2009, ECOERA Millennium Carbon Removal is the world's first biochar-only carbon removal platform and a result of research and innovation in West Sweden.

ECOERA uses an industrial symbiosis solution starting with using agricultural residues rich in carbon and creating a balanced pellet out of them. The company carbonizes pellets, where heat is released and utilized, resulting to a carbon-rich substance, biochar. The biochar is, in essence, embodied carbon dioxide and used as a soil enhancement providing better nutrient-holding capacity for agricultural soils – creating a climate-positive food production. ECOERA sees it as the most promising solution in the carbon tech field as actual carbon atom from the atmosphere is being removed, with no need to bring the whole bulky carbon dioxide molecule down in (deep underground) storage.

The process includes a pyrolysis step of pelletized unique biomass blends with specified mineral composition, producing syngas, heat and biochar. ECOERA heats the syngas and returns biochar to the fields as a soil enhancer and carbon sink. ECOERA has created the Millennium Carbon Removal platform with a complete carbon audit trail for following the carbon from biomass to soil and its location on the planet and amount including analysis data.

Founded in 2007 at Chalmers Ventures with Skånefrö AB, ECOERA creates a carbon removal market, being the current market leader in Biochar-only carbon sinks. The company is turbocharging the biochar revolution by providing technologies, knowledge, and tools enabling sustainable small-scale and urban agriculture.

ECOERA has an award status as WWF Climate Solver company. All biochar used for the carbon removal is certified according to the strict Premium level of the European Biochar Certificate (EBC).

ECOERA is part of the Carbon Valley pilot project, aiming to create a climate positive agriculture.