Greenhouse Operator, Ontario

Running EV forklifts inside the grow houses.

A commercial greenhouse operator running EV forklifts across its grow-house operations, plus a small set of battery-electric mini-loaders supporting an adjacent expansion. Material handling runs two shifts, year-round — every pallet of produce leaves the site on electric wheels.

Electrified units powering the credit stream.

What the operator receives each year.

At current CFR pricing (~$400 / credit), a ~30-unit light-duty electric material-handling fleet in Ontario generates on the order of ~272 tCO₂e / year of CFR credits — around CAD 109,000 in annual credit revenue, paid to the operator after each annual cycle. Climate Decode retains only a small management fee.

Credit revenue across the first compliance cycle.

Projection pulled directly from the site CFR calculator — CFR reference CIs (ECCC Specifications for Fuel LCA Model CI Calculations v4.0, Schedule 1 & 6), EER per ECCC Schedule 5, Ontario grid CI ~12 gCO₂e/MJ per ECCC Fuel LCA Model v4.0 Table 12, and credit pricing at current market (~CAD 400 / credit).

Annual credit volume drifts down slightly year-over-year as the CFR reference CI tightens under the declining trajectory; revenue stays roughly stable at ~CAD 105K/yr across the cycle.

The work the operator would otherwise have to build a compliance team to do.

ZEV Catalyst registers the entire fleet under a single CFR Credit Creation Agreement, installs kWh sub-metering at each grow-house charger, runs the MRV plan (logging energy delivered, source, and equipment class every shift), and manages annual third-party verification with ECCC. The operator signs one agreement, deals with one counterparty, and never sees a verifier invoice.