Insight
Towards Direct Air Capture (DAC) at scale, a trilogy — Part II
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Report summary
In this insight, the second in this trilogy, we discuss the economics of DAC with a particular focus on revenue pathways and calculations of levelised cost and revenue. We discuss how voluntary carbon markets, among other revenue pathways, might drive DAC's profitability as technology costs decrease over time.
Table of contents
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Part II: DAC economic incentives and profitability
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- DAC economic incentives
- 1. Carbon pricing or equivalent:
- 2. Government cost support
- 3. Commercial price for CO 2
- 4. Product premium
- 5. Voluntary carbon markets
- 8 more item(s)...
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Volume of voluntary DAC offsets purchased to-date (in Mt), with price points, where availableStandarized calculations for levelised costs and revenuesEconomics summary @ base case, unleveredEconomics summary @ optimistic case, unleveredEconomics summary @ pessimistic case, unlevered
What's included
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