Octavia Carbon and Cella Mineral Storage to build a pilot direct air capture plant in Kenya
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Octavia Carbon – a direct air capture (DAC) company and Cella Mineral Storage – a carbon mineralization company turning CO2 into rock, have agreed to build a pilot DAC facility at CellaMineral’s storage plant located in Naivasha, Kenya.
The project called “Project Hummingbird” will have the capacity to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and store 1 kiloton or 1,000 tons of CO2 annually, thanks to the carbon mineralization technology provided by Cella. The project is expected to start generating commercial carbon credits in October 2024, issued under the Puro Standard, which uses science-based laboratory testing and third-party auditing to verify the CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs) for authenticity and long-term durability.
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The carbon capture and storage process is set to begin in October 2024, with plans to sell carbon credits certified by the leading carbon removal platform Puro.earth. The plant will work under Puro.earth’s ICROA-endorsed Standard for Geologically Stored Carbon and will apply strict monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) criteria.
