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Major scientific assessments on how to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, including those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), conclude that meeting Paris Agreement climate objectives will require billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). You can read the full IPCC Summary here.

Yes. The first commercial facility to use CE's technology, named STRATOS, is being developed by 1PointFive in Ector County, Texas. The plant is expected to capture up to 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually, once fully operational, which will make it the largest DAC facility in the world. Learn more here.

CE first demonstrated key elements of our solution in 2015 from our Squamish-based pilot, which was designed as a proof of concept and testing facility. Today, we continue to develop our DAC technology at the neighbouring Innovation Centre – which was built in 2021 and functions as CE’s home for continued research and development.

The facility operates using a run-replace-run system - meaning the team continuously identifies possible improvements, introduces adjustments, and conducts testing to analyze new equipment and components. The objective of its operation is to enable CE to refine its CO₂ capturing technology, it is not intended to capture CO₂ for end use or sequestration.

There are significant opportunities to further optimize the process to best serve region-specific contexts and conditions, including climate, energy inputs, and facility size. Developing a portfolio of complementary large-scale Direct Air Capture solutions requires a comprehensive technology development approach, with each research pathway helping to improve efficiency, drive innovation, expand optionality for deployment and bring the cost of capture down at an accelerated rate.

We continue to work closely with a global network of industry partners, research institutions, vendors and developers. Most recently, CE welcomed DAC technology developer, Holocene, to our collective team.

Geologic storage, also known as carbon sequestration, is a form of storing CO₂ deep underground. It is a well-established practice that is highly engineered and strictly regulated, and has been in commercial operation for decades.

We're working with Occidental and 1PointFive for commercial Direct Air Capture and sequestration projects, leveraging 50+ years of carbon management and safe CO2 injection experience. Learn more at www.1pointfive.com/geologic-sequestration.

Enhanced oil recovery is the process of injecting CO₂ into oil reservoirs to produce additional crude from existing wells. It's extensively used in several crude producing regions such as the Permian Basin in Texas.

When the CO₂ used in the EOR process has been removed from the atmosphere using DAC technology, the process essentially takes carbon from the atmosphere and puts it underground, offsetting the carbon contained in the resulting oil. If the amount of CO₂ injected and stored is equal to the amount emitted when the oil is produced, refined and used, the full process is carbon neutral. If more CO₂ is injected than what is produced, the process can produce fuels for transportation while also generating net negative emissions.

Credit certification is performed at a commercial project level through independent verification and validation organizations. For example, 1PointFive is working with Verra as the registry selected to deliver the resulting CDR credits from STRATOS, the first commercial facility to use CE's technology.

Atmospheric CO₂ captured using CE's DAC technology can be used in several low carbon pathways, flexible to market signals. When combined with clean hydrogen, the CO₂ can be used as a feedstock to produce synthetic transportation fuels, like Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Carbon Engineering first produced low carbon fuels in 2017.

Today, our focus is on deploying DAC at commercial scale paired with geologic sequestration while key inputs, like hydrogen, descend the cost curve alongside our DAC technology.

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The Innovation Centre is our current headquarters for research and development, with plans to complement operations at the new Technology Development Campus along Queens Way, which is currently in development.