World's First Carbon Capture Plant Powered Directly by Wind Planned

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March 17, 2025, 3:30 PM

• •A planned project in Texas could be the world's first direct air capture development to rely primarily on electricity produced on site by wind power.
• •The facility is slated to come online in 2028 and is intended to eventually remove up to 500,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere per year.
• •The new Texas project is being led by Return Carbon, a Dutch project development and investment company, and Skytree, a direct air capture technology firm also based in the Netherlands, with wind power from the North American renewables subsidiary of EDF, the state-owned French utility.

A planned project in Texas could be the world's first direct air capture development to rely primarily on electricity produced on site by wind power. The facility is slated to come online in 2028 and is intended to eventually remove up to 500,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere per year.

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