Turning a Liability into Feedstock
Historically, the biggest challenge to DAC has been cost—particularly the lack of monetisable output. But in PEGASUS, the captured CO₂ is not stored. It is used, directly and immediately. That usage drives the production of high-value outputs like ethanol, acetate, biopolymers, or protein feedstocks. In other words, the carbon becomes the raw material, and the fermentation tanks become carbon processors.
This approach makes DAC economic without the need for ongoing subsidy, especially in light of:
- Rising carbon prices under the EU ETS and CBAM frameworks,
- Increasing geopolitical volatility disrupting fossil fuel and agrochemical markets,
- Growing niche markets such as animal feed replacements, pharmaceutical proteins, and fermentation-grade bio-intermediates
Meeting the EU Mandate—And Building for What Comes Next
The PEGASUS integration within TITAN and ASMARA isn’t just a technical innovation—it is a regulatory alignment strategy. These platforms have been engineered to comply with—and accelerate—Europe’s existing and emerging carbon frameworks.
Built for Europe’s Decarbonisation Agenda
PEGASUS, TITAN, and ASMARA support and operationalise key elements of the European climate and industrial transformation:
- The European Green Deal: by creating closed-loop, renewable systems that eliminate fossil dependence while regenerating economic activity in underserved rural and urban areas.
- REPowerEU: by directly replacing Russian fossil fuels with clean, decentralised producer gas and ethanol derived from forest and municipal waste.
- Fit for 55: by helping Member States achieve emissions reductions not only through displacement of fossil fuels but through removal and transformation of carbon—whether from flue gases or ambient air.
- EU Bioeconomy Strategy: by turning CO₂ into the primary carbon feedstock for bio-based fuels, chemicals, and even nature-identical nutrients and proteins.
- Circular Economy Action Plan: by transforming biogenic and captured carbon into circular, re-usable inputs for industrial, agricultural, and material cycles.
- EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: by reducing the import of toxic petrochemicals and replacing them with benign, CO₂-derived substitutes that biodegrade naturally or return to the cycle.
These frameworks are not optional. They are embedded in funding calls, national legislation, ESG taxonomy standards, and bankable green finance instruments. TITAN and ASMARA are designed to comply by default, rather than retrofit compliance after-the-fact.
Ahead of the Curve: Anticipating the Next Directives
EU climate and industrial law is shifting toward mandatory carbon removal targets, backed by:
- The upcoming Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF), which will distinguish between capture for storage (CCS) and capture for use (CCU). PEGASUS fits squarely in the latter—CCU via TMF.
- A likely EU Carbon Feedstock Strategy, which will treat captured CO₂ as a raw material eligible for support, especially in bio-based and pharmaceutical pathways.
- Expansion of ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standards), which will elevate the importance of Scope 3 emissions, industrial symbiosis, and carbon-negative processes. TITAN and ASMARA are already engineered with ESG logic at their core.
- A revised Industrial Emissions Directive, which may soon obligate large emitters (e.g. cement and steel) to capture and valorise a percentage of CO₂ on site. PEGASUS can blend those flue streams with DAC and feed them into microbial fermentation—making emissions feedstock, not liability.
These changes are not speculative—they are already underway. The PEGASUS model is one of the few scalable, modular architectures that can bridge today’s compliance landscape with tomorrow’s carbon economy.
From ESG Impact to Strategic Resilience—A Platform for Europe’s Next Economy
As carbon becomes a traded commodity, a liability to avoid, and a resource to transform—all at once—Europe needs infrastructure that is not just compliant, but enabling. PEGASUS, TITAN, and ASMARA form such infrastructure: modular, adaptive, circular, and rooted in community-scale regeneration.
Where conventional decarbonisation platforms focus only on mitigation, these systems go further—removing, reusing, and regenerating carbon while strengthening the communities in which they are deployed.
Delivering ESG at Systemic Scale
The PEGASUS-enhanced TITAN and ASMARA platforms are structured to deliver across all three pillars of ESG:
- Environmental:
• CO₂ removal and utilisation in one step (DAC + TMF)
• Elimination of fossil inputs in rural and urban zones
• Net-negative emissions when operated on biogenic waste and renewable power - Social:
• Local job creation in waste collection, fermentation, maintenance, and analytics
• Skill-building in rural regions through participation in new bio-industrial economies
• Municipal revenue from low-carbon energy and valorised waste streams - Governance:
• Built-in compliance with EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities
• Ready-to-report metrics for CSRD, ESRS, and Scope 1–3 emissions
• Transparent, traceable carbon valorisation from capture to product
The platforms don’t just meet ESG criteria—they enable reporting, assurance, and continuous improvement through verifiable carbon flows and product yields.
Strength in Sovereignty: From Imported Carbon to Local Control
The recent shocks to global supply chains—energy, food, pharmaceuticals—have revealed the strategic vulnerability of carbon dependence. PEGASUS-enabled platforms create carbon sovereignty: the ability to make essential fuels, chemicals, materials, and nutrients locally, without relying on volatile global markets or fossil-based inputs.
For example:
- A rural TITAN site can turn forest residue into electricity, heat, bioethanol, and proteins.
- An urban ASMARA site can process municipal waste into fuel-grade ethanol and fermentation precursors.
- PEGASUS adds DAC to both, feeding a second stream of carbon into the same microbial tanks—unlocking proteins like collagen, amino acids, or even insulin analogues, from air and flue gases.
Each installation becomes a miniature biorefinery, built not for exports, but for community resilience and economic diversity.
PEGASUS Is Not an Add-On—It Is a Leap Forward
PEGASUS does not compete with the existing energy or DAC markets—it unlocks their full value. On its own, DAC is costly and passive. When embedded in TITAN or ASMARA, it becomes a feedstock provider, productivity booster, and decarbonisation enabler.
This is the future: not just capturing carbon, but using it. Not just meeting targets, but building the next economy.
PEGASUS transforms TITAN and ASMARA into the next layer of Europe’s industrial infrastructure—one that works at local scale, multiplies existing renewables, and delivers carbon-negative products from the air we breathe and the waste we leave behind.