The United States officially has its first commercial Direct Air Capture facility!
Today we welcomed U.S. Secretary of Energy, Jennifer M. Granholm, and California Lieutenant Governor, Eleni Kounalakis, to unveil a facility in our home state of California where we'll capture and lock away CO2 from the atmosphere.
Powered by 100% renewable energy supplied by PG&E and Ava Community Energy, constructed with union labor, backed by catalytic buyers of best-in-class carbon removal, and built in partnership with the City and community of Tracy, this first facility is our blueprint for responsible removal at billion-ton scale and beyond.
With a capture capacity of up to 1,000 tons per year, the CO2 captured at this facility will go for storage in concrete with our partner CarbonCure Technologies so that it cannot continue heating the planet.
This facility is more than a labor of love from the engineers, researchers, chemists, construction workers, scientists, managers, assistants, policy wonks, and architects who made it possible –– it is a promise of what is possible when committed people come together to get things done, and a promise that we will keep building today, tomorrow, and every day after until we’ve realized our vision of a safer and more stable climate.
You can read more about the technology, partnerships, and people behind this facility here: https://lnkd.in/gF8gmXB9
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