When a company announces a 500-megawatt solar complex to support an oil major’s operations in West Texas, you expect the usual suspects: electrified field equipment, lower-carbon power for pumps and compressors, maybe a hedge against power price volatility.
But Origis Energy’s February 19 announcement had a sharper edge: the Swift Air Solar facilities will also support Occidental’s West Texas operations including STRATOS — a direct air capture (DAC) plant intended to pull CO₂ out of ambient air. In other words, a “carbon vacuum” is getting its own purpose-built power supply.
That pairing—solar + DAC—sounds like a tidy climate narrative.
