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    Graphyte Signs Carbon Removal Purchase Agreement with American Airlines to Deliver 10,000 Tons of CO2 Removal in 2025

    Nov. 30, 2023
    Graphyte's Carbon Casting process permanently removes and stores CO2 with significantly less energy and reduced cost as compared to the existing carbon removal approaches
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    Graphyte, a carbon removal startup supported by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, has signed a carbon removal purchase agreement with American Airlines to deliver 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) removal in early 2025 using Carbon Casting technology.

    The Carbon Casting deployment will take place at a Graphyte facility in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, at an intersection of major agricultural and timber production areas. 

    Graphyte's Carbon Casting process leverages readily available biomass byproducts, including crop and wood residues, which capture significant CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. 

    The biomass is dried to prevent decomposition, converted into dense carbon blocks, wrapped in an environmentally safe polymer barrier, and monitored in a state-of-the-art underground storage facility. 

    The process permanently removes and stores CO2 with significantly less energy and reduced cost as compared to the existing carbon removal approaches.

    "The agreement demonstrates the growing demand for affordable and scalable high-quality carbon removal credits and the ability of Carbon Casting technology to make a significant impact in the fight against climate change in the very near term,” said Barclay Rogers, CEO of Graphyte.

    American Airlines aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and is investing in a variety of technologies to reduce its carbon footprint. The company plans to accelerate and scale the CO2 removal market with the purchase of carbon removal credits from Graphyte. 

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    Rod Walton is senior editor for EnergyTech.com. He has spent 14 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist.

    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    He can be reached at [email protected]. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids.

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.