The world's biggest direct air carbon capture and storage plant
World's largest carbon-capture plant Orca opens in Iceland
Sunil Shukla 
The Orca plant is located in Hellisheidi, Iceland, adjacent to Icelandic energy company ON Power's geothermal power plant, and is entirely run on this renewable energy.
Climeworks claims it is the "world's first and largest climate-positive direct air capture and storage plant", and says it makes the capture of atmospheric carbon on an industrial scale a reality.
"Orca, as a milestone in the direct air capture industry, has provided a scalable, flexible and replicable blueprint for Climeworks' future expansion," said Climeworks co-CEO and co-founder Jan Wurzbacher.
"With this success, we are prepared to rapidly ramp up our capacity in the next years. Achieving global net-zero emissions is still a long way to go, but with Orca, we believe that Climeworks has taken one significant step closer to achieving that goal."
Orca is Climeworks' second carbon capture plant
The company launched a pilot plant in Switzerland in 2017, which packaged the collected carbon up for commercial use in fertilisers, fizzy drinks and synthetic fuels.
The Orca plant captures significantly greater quantities of carbon dioxide, and instead of using it converts it for storage through Carbfix's "natural mineralisation process".
