Equatic

Equatic (legally Equatic Inc.) is a Los Angeles-based carbon removal company spun out of UCLA's Institute for Carbon Management. The company has developed a patented seawater electrolysis process that dramatically amplifies the ocean's natural capacity to absorb and permanently store atmospheric carbon dioxide. By electrolyzing seawater, Equatic converts CO₂ into stable dissolved bicarbonate ions and solid mineral carbonates - both representing genuinely durable, gigaton-scalable storage pathways. Crucially, the same electrolytic process simultaneously produces green hydrogen as a co-product, creating a dual revenue stream (carbon removal credits + hydrogen fuel sales) that helps underwrite the economics of the technology in a way few other carbon removal approaches can match.

The company commenced pilot operations in 2023 with two facilities - one in Los Angeles, CA and one in Singapore - and has since advanced to a demonstration plant (Equatic-1) in Singapore and a commercial-scale 100-kilotonne CDR facility under development in Canada, announced as North America's first commercial-scale ocean-based carbon removal plant. A breakthrough announced in September 2024 - the US manufacture of proprietary oxygen-selective anodes in San Diego, CA - unlocks scalable hydrogen production through direct seawater electrolysis, a key manufacturing milestone for the US energy supply chain. Equatic's MRV methodology is ISO 14064-2 certified and validated by carbon registries Isometric and Puro.earth, enabling it to sell high-integrity carbon removal credits to major buyers like Boeing.

For the US energy supply chain, Equatic sits at a critical intersection: it is one of the few companies producing verified green hydrogen as a byproduct of carbon removal at scale, while simultaneously advancing domestic anode manufacturing in California. The company's technology is science-backed (founded by UCLA researchers), DOE-recognized (CDR Purchase Prize semifinalist, 2024), and has attracted global institutional capital. As the US pursues hard-to-abate decarbonization and green hydrogen infrastructure, Equatic's integrated ocean CDR-plus-hydrogen model represents a compelling processed-materials pathway - turning seawater into both permanent CO₂ storage and clean fuel - that could become a meaningful plank of America's net-zero strategy.