UK clean energy technology firms have set up a joint venture to build and operate Europe's biggest direct air capture project. Carbon capture technology developers Airhive and Mission Zero Technologies have joined forces with Progressive Energy, a developer of low-carbon energy projects, to build a direct air capture (DAC) facility on Teesside, south of Newcastle, Bloomberg reports. The new venture, named UnionDAC, expects to begin removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from air in 2030.