The paint shop as the carbon core, twenty levers, and the economics of two measures — an electric forklift fleet earning clean-fuel credits and a heat pump on the paint line — that move with energy, carbon, and credit prices.
A vehicle assembly plant burns comparatively little fuel, yet its on-site Scope 1 and 2 emissions run about 0.6 tCO₂ per vehicle — and the paint shop alone is roughly 80% of the gas. This paper sets out where those emissions sit, how to abate them in the right order, and how two measures behave as prices move. No form, no gate: read it here, jump to any chapter, or open the PDF.
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Sample finding · the forklift
An electric forklift fleet earns about $229,000/yr in CFR credit revenue against a ~$1.6M incremental capex — a payback under three years and a marginal abatement cost near −$480/t, once the efficiency uplift turns ~430 physical tonnes into ~570 creditable ones.
Sample finding · the heat pump
A COP-3.6 heat pump on the paint line turns net-saving around $50–60/tCO₂ — a level most compliance carbon prices already exceed. An electric boiler on a carbon-heavy grid can instead add emissions.
TerraNova ingests plant operations data, allocates emissions to each process step, screens twenty-plus levers against the local policy stack, and returns a finance-grade investment plan — ranked portfolio, deployment schedule, NPV/IRR by lever, and year-by-year compliance position.
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TerraNova turns plant operations data into a finance-grade roadmap — emissions hotspots, a marginal abatement cost curve, NPV/IRR by lever, and policy-aware economics across every revenue layer.
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