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Understanding the significance of 430 ppm CO2 Levels

LEED v5 Guide 2025 for Building Decarbonization

Soletair Power CEO Petri Laakso to Present at FinnCERES Annual Seminar on Bio-based Futures

Podcast | Nordic Venture Show Episode #125 featuring Soletair Power | Transcript

Soletair Power Unveils “Carbon Ghostbusters”: An AI-Generated Music Video to Bust CO2 and Ignite Climate Action

The Story of Kimmo Rauma – Board Chair at Soletair Power

Soletair Power Dr. Bing Han DSc Aalto University Finland Lappeenranta

About Bing Han, D.Sc. – Senior R&D Engineer at Soletair Power

Aarksee and Soletair Power Launch First-Ever Building-Integrated Microalgae Carbon Capture Solution In The Middle East

Soletair Power Liquid Sun Partnership—Air Captured CO2 Utilization in Aviation Fuel

How New Policies Shape the Carbon Capture Landscape in 2025

World’s 1st Industrial Scale Carbon Negative Concrete from Soletair Power Carbonaide Partnership

Soletair Power Wins Eighth Carbon Capture Tender

Soletair Power signs MoU with Hong Kong based Alcarbo for CO2 Utilization

Soletair Power Wins HVAC-Connected DAC Tender in Hungary

Biography of Soletair Co-founder and Serial Inventor Ari Piispanen

Installation Case: Buildings into Carbon Sinks: Soletair Power Building Integrated Carbon Capture at Danica Pension, Aarhus, Denmark

List of Building Certifications | CRREM, LEED Zero, WELL, BREEAM, GRESB, Zero Carbon, ENERGY STAR

Soletair Power signs agreement with Danica Pension on HVAC DAC Deployment in Aarhus, Denmark

€1 Million Funding Secured to Accelerate Direct Air Capture Technology

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The cost of industrialization and the course of action for companies

Soletair Power signs collaboration agreement with Søren Jensen

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Deploying CO2 capture in buildings can help the DACCS ecosystem evolve

Benefits of retrofitting buildings with onsite carbon capture

Soletair Power takes part in Slush 2023

Soletair Power to join 28th UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai

Introduction in the United States

Exclusive Event by Soletair Power at the Consulate General of Finland in New York

Soletair Power as top ten in the European PropTech Association Startup & Scaleup Europe Award 2023

Could tremendous heat of Data Centers be utilized by Soletair’s building CO2 capture technology?

Soletair Power Outdoor Carbon Dioxide Capture Unit at ZBT Germany

Installation Case: CO2 Capture with Outdoor Direct Air Capture Unit at Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Center ZBT, Duisburg, Germany

Soletair Power Building CO2 Capture Power 2 X unit at Dubai

Installation Case: Fueling Innovation with Thin Air — Power-to-X Demonstration at Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Soletair Power Awarded the Fastest Growing Company Title in Finland’s South Karelia Region

Installation Case: Building Carbon Capture with HVAC Integrated Direct Air Capture Unit at Wärtsilä Sustainable Technology Hub, Vaasa, Finland

Soletair Power as Net Zero Hero in HVR Awards 2023

Understanding carbon footprints and the Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions

Carbon capture terms and glossary for getting to net-zero

earn LEED and WELL points with Soletair Power

Earn more LEED and WELL points for your building with Soletair Power

Halton Ventures and Søren Jensen Invest in Finnish Carbon Capture Company Soletair Power

Halton and Søren Jensen Invest in Soletair Power

NASA: Homesteading Mars — Soletair Power’s CEO to advise finalist team at RASC-AL Mars Space Operations showcasing event

Soletair Power in the SET100 List – one of the 100 Most Promising Global Energy Start-ups of 2023

It is in the air Soletair Power capturing carbon dioxide from the air

Carbon dioxide in the air and extreme weather

Making buildings truly carbon negative in the long run

Enviro FM and Soletair Power partnership 2023

Carbon Capture Company Soletair Power Partners with Ireland’s Sustainable Facilities Management Company EnviroFM

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A nordic proptech view with Petri Laakso from Soletair Power

Wärtsilä Twentyfour7 Insights: Could carbon removal scale up to be as big as oil and gas?

Peer-reviewed journal articles on integration of Direct Air Capture with building’s HVAC or ventilation

Increased CO2 levels cause the brain to reduce metabolism and spontaneous neural activity, and enter a lower arousal state. Humans’ cognition declines as carbon dioxide levels rise in the air they breathe.

A large container capturing Carbon dioxide from the air outdoors

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September 1, 2022

Soletair Power delivers Outdoor Direct Air Capture Unit to ZBT

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August 2, 2022

Peer-reviewed scientific articles and scholarly journals on the impact of CO2 on human cognitive performance

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July 14, 2022

Soletair Power to present at Airbus NEXT.INDUSTRIES Innovation Forum 2022 as one of the top nine nominated startups

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June 30, 2022

This Is CDR Ep40: Soletair Power’s DAC x HVAC with Petri Laakso — Transcript

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June 20, 2022

14 Building Carbon Emissions related Regulations, Penalties, Tax Credits and Abatement laws

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May 27, 2022

MythBusters co-host Jamie Hyneman impressed by the novelty of Soletair Power’s carbon capture method

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April 20, 2022

Soletair Power awarded “Best-in-Class” in PropTech Challenge 2022 by Real Estate Board of New York REBNY and NYSERDA

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March 30, 2022

Petteri Orpo, Finnish MP and the chair of Kokoomus party visits Soletair Power

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March 24, 2022

Breathing New Life into Buildings: Capturing CO2 Emissions

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March 14, 2022

To increase employee productivity & wellbeing, companies might want to ensure CO2-lean-air as an office benefit

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February 16, 2022

Frequently asked questions about CCUS and DAC or Direct Air Capture

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February 14, 2022

FAQ: Is carbon dioxide harmful to the planet and the people?

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January 21, 2022

Technical Specifications of HVAC Integrated Direct Air Capture Unit – How Building CO₂ Capture Works

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January 11, 2022

Soletair Power CEO Petri Laakso Speaks at Credit Suisse 2022 Carbon Negative Conference at New York

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December 8, 2021

Soletair Power Oy Patents

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November 30, 2021

German and French Ambassadors visit Soletair Power and learn about carbon dioxide capture technology

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October 7, 2021

Your breath is turning into fuel — Soletair Power’s machine demonstrating P2X Fuel Production at Expo 2020 Dubai

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September 9, 2021

Finnish Parliament Members from the Environment Committee visits Soletair Power

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August 30, 2021

Finland’s Minister of Employment Tuula Haatainen visits Soletair Power

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August 14, 2021

Technical Specifications of the Outdoor Direct Air Capture of CO2 Unit from Soletair Power made for ZBT

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July 5, 2021

Petri Laakso, CEO, Soletair Power, joins Girish Shivakumar in the Podcast series Mission Shunya | Transcript

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June 30, 2021

Soletair Power signs contract with German ZBT to provide their DAC of CO₂ unit

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June 11, 2021

Wärtsilä, Soletair Power, Q Power taking Power-to-X to Dubai Expo

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March 12, 2021

Soletair Power receives a grant from ELY for developing Standalone Direct Air Capture Project

A blue machine that captures CO2 from Air

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March 2, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä has invested a further EUR 1 million in Soletair Power

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January 30, 2021

How to Have a Huge Positive Impact on Environment: Soletair Power in Episode 413 of Beyond Technology — Transcript

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January 12, 2021

Story of the Inventor, Soletair Power — YouTube Video Transcript

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January 12, 2021

The Soletair Power Story — YouTube Video Transcript

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January 12, 2021

Power to X machine from Soletair Power – How it works — Transcript

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December 7, 2020

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November 2, 2020

Prime Minister Sanna Marin joins Wärtsilä at Soletair Power for an exclusive tour of a demonstration unit for Power-to-X

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June 1, 2020

Wärtsilä purchases commercial Power-to-X demo unit from Soletair Power

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May 29, 2020

What factors enable efficient workplaces and lead to financial benefits for companies?

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May 12, 2020

Why the effect of carbon dioxide concentration on humans is studied and how is it done?

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May 4, 2020

Power2People project gets funding from Business Finland

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April 14, 2020

What is the effect of elevated carbon dioxide concentration on our cognitive performance, and can we fix that with ventilation?

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February 20, 2020

Soletair Power will deliver a Power-to-X demo system to Wärtsilä

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November 19, 2019

Soletair Power featured in CNBC’s Sustainable Energy Show

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April 15, 2019

Soletair Power Oy has received EUR 500,000 in seed funding from Wärtsilä Corporation

Every breath you take

Wärtsilä’s STH auditorium features innovative CO2 capture technology, by Finnish startup Soletair Power, in the pursuit of carbon neutrality.

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A taste of a carbon-neutral energy future

Wärtsilä Energy and innovative Finnish start-ups Soletair Power and Q Power demonstrate carbon-neutral fuel production through CO2 capture at Expo 2020 Dubai.

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Changing the world for the better – together

Matti Rautkivi, Wärtsilä Energy and Kimmo Rauma, charing Soletair Power discuss how large companies can benefit from collaborating with innovative start-ups.

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The Partner Campus: a unique cocreation gateway for Wärtsilä innovation

Wärtsilä has launched the cutting-edge Sustainable Technology Hub in Vaasa, Finland, strengthening innovation for the company and its partners.

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Why Buildings?

HVAC+DAC = Cost savings, Lower emissions, Clean air

Buildings, responsible for about 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, can be turned into carbon capture machines by making them capture CO₂ from air.

Optimized for buildings, Soletair Power‘s patented technology integrates CO₂ capture directly into existing air handling units (HVAC). This requires no extreme temperatures, high water usage, or specific geographical conditions. The system benefits from buildings’ internal climatic conditions and HVAC airflow delivering a geographically independent, weatherproof, and economically viable solution for year-round CO2 capture.

For a standard ventilation unit handling 3.3 m³/s, each of our Building-HVAC-Integrated CO₂ Capture Units can capture ~47 kilograms of carbon dioxide per 8-hour day or 20 tonnes per year. On average, there are about 20 modules per building. So, each commercial building equipped with Soletair Power‘s technology can capture about 400 tonnes carbon dioxide (about the same emissions as 87 cars) per year from the ambient air.

Now imagine that for hundreds of buildings!

The building can directly save on costs by saving energy occurring from running the HVAC system with a continuous high airflow. Captured CO₂ when mineralized into concrete, creates negative emissions and reduces the net emissions of the buildings.

Mockup of Soletair Power Building HVAC integrated CO2 Capture Unit placed inside a building

What is a carbon sink?

A carbon sink is a reservoir that stores carbon dioxide for an indefinite period after capturing it from the atmosphere.

What is direct air capture (DAC)?

Direct air capture (DAC) is a technology that uses chemical materials to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When air is moved over these materials, they selectively capture the CO₂, allowing the other components of air to pass through.

Why are DAC and carbon sinks needed?

According to IPCC, limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2100 will require technologies for large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal measures. DAC is needed alongside nature-based CO₂ capture, enabling renewable energy, and transitioning away from fossil fuels. DAC has a limited land and water footprint and can be installed in urban environments and places close to CO₂ storage.

What is the effect of CO2 on people in buildings?

High concentration of CO₂ in the air indoors has a direct influence on how people think (Ref: Harvard University). The standard indoor CO₂ level is expected to stay between 450 and 600 ppm, which is slightly above the normal levels in outdoor air (414 ppm). From 1,000 ppm, room occupiers start to feel dissatisfied and with every 400-ppm increase in CO₂ concentration, our cognitive function score drops by 20%. CO₂ undercuts our ability to perform in thought works at full potential.

Soletair Power’s technology is the first in the world to integrate atmospheric carbon removal in buildings. Soletair Power‘s modules produce no additional noise and can capture CO₂ even at a low airflow rate, with low water and energy footprint, making it ideal for installation in buildings. In addition to offsetting a building’s CO₂ emissions, HVAC-DAC integration can reduce HVAC’s energy costs, and supply better air indoors.

Now imagine that for hundreds of buildings!

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