Spiritus, a climate tech company designing solutions for market-accessible carbon removal using direct air capture (DAC), is constructing its first “Carbon Orchard” DAC and sequestration site in Central Wyoming.
The facility – known as Orchard One – will be capable of capturing and sequestering up to 2 million metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere annually. The project will commence with carbon removal in 2026.
Orchard One will exclusively use geological sequestration to store captured carbon on site. Geological sequestration prevents carbon from re-entering the atmosphere by trapping the carbon in naturally occurring rock formations deep underground.
Once operational, Orchard One will remove the equivalent of 3 million Americans’ airline emissions annually. Spiritus expects the project to demonstrate that DAC is a scalable solution for reaching net-zero goals.
Additional benefits of Orchard One include verifiable and transparent traceability of stored carbon, local community support through engagement and job creation, and contributing a portion of the profits to community areas with the largest need.
The project will also bring hundreds of jobs to Wyoming, and Spiritus plans to partner with local universities and other organizations to ensure adequate training is made available in the region.
Orchard One has already garnered commercial interest and pre-purchase customers, including Watershed, Terraset, and Frontier, which Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey founded.
“Establishing Orchard One in the state of Wyoming marks a major advancement in our global journey towards net zero,” said Charles Cadieu, Co-Founder and CEO of Spiritus. Leveraging our proprietary sorbent technology and achieving substantial reductions in energy consumption, we’re moving to reduce the cost of direct air capture to under $100 per ton – driving positive change in environmental stewardship.”
