Orca

https://climeworks.com/plant-orca Climeworks – Plant ORCA is the world’s first commercial-scale direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility, located near Reykjavík, Iceland and developed by Climeworks in partnership with Carbfix. The plant uses modular DAC units to pull CO₂ directly from ambient air and then combines the captured CO₂ with renewable geothermal heat to release it from the sorbent. The resulting pure CO₂ is mixed with water and injected deep underground into basaltic rock formations, where it mineralizes and becomes permanently stored as solid carbonate minerals. Plant ORCA began operations in September 2021 and has a capture capacity of about 4,000 metric tons of CO₂ per year, making it the largest dedicated atmospheric carbon removal facility by capacity at the time of its commissioning. The project was designed as a proof of commercial viability for DAC-plus-permanent-storage at scale.