A regional direct air capture hub that:

• Facilitates the deployment of direct air capture projects;
• Has the capacity to capture and sequester, utilize, or sequester and utilize at least 1,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually from a single unit or multiple interconnected units;
• Demonstrates the capture, processing, delivery, and sequestration or end-use of captured carbon; and
• Could be developed into a regional or interregional carbon network to facilitate sequestration or carbon utilization.

• View the projects selected for award negotiations and the press release for Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs
• Read the latest update on Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs
• Download the previously issued Funding Opportunity Announcement and read the Press Release
• Review the Community Benefits Guidance Plan 
• Download the Notice of Intent

• Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs Funding Opportunity Announcement. Letters of Intent were due by February 17, 2023. Full applications were due on March 13, 2023.
• DOE is committed to hearing from the local community and is co-hosting in-person meetings in Texas and Louisiana this fall. These in-person community briefings are for the local host community to hear directly from the DAC Hubs selectee and DOE about the proposed DAC Hub projects and potential community benefits. If you are a local member of the community and interested in attending, please register here for the Texas meeting and here for the Louisiana meeting. The DAC projects have not been awarded and are in currently in negotiations with the DOE. If projects are awarded, DOE and the awardee will have frequent, meaningful engagement with the impacted local community and impacted workers throughout the lifecycle of the project. If you have any questions, please contact: projectcypress_dac@hq.doe.gov or southtexas_dac@hq.doe.gov.

View the OCED Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs Factsheet.