Food and beverage manufacturing runs on roughly 9,000 PJ of final energy a year and emits 250–400 MtCO₂ from fuel combustion — yet 60–85% of that energy is thermal, most of it below 200°C. That makes this one of the most electrifiable, biogas-rich heavy-footprint sectors there is. Below: where plant emissions sit, the levers and incentive stack that fund them, and the tools to size both for your facility.
Reference numbers from our white paper’s hypothetical 50 kt/yr Ontario dairy plant (≈12 ktCO₂e Scope 1+2). Your plant will differ — that’s what the Decarb Explorer below and TerraNova’s facility-level MRV are for.
Natural-gas process heat — pasteurization, baking, frying, drying, CIP. This is where heat pumps, heat recovery and on-site biogas decisions are won or lost.
Anaerobic wastewater methane and HFC top-ups. Under-managed at most plants — and the wastewater stream doubles as the feedstock for the flagship biogas lever.
Refrigeration-heavy load on the Ontario grid — and the bucket that grows as you electrify. Grid factor decides whether a heat pump pays its carbon bill.
A new food-industry white paper — process emissions, capital sequencing and a five-KPI screening framework — plus six companion papers across two agrifood series.
Process emissions, capital sequencing, the five-KPI screening framework, and two worked cases — AD bio-trigeneration and the heat-pump grid test.
The 16.5 Gt agrifood baseline, SBTi FLAG target-setting, supplier engagement and the upstream levers where most value-chain emissions sit.
Plant-level decarbonization pathways for food processors — the short-form companions to the white paper.
Pick your facility type — dairy, bakery, meat & poultry or potato — set region, production and targets, and build a decarbonization plan from 46 levers computed live on our facility models.
The white paper shows why levers clear only when incentives stack. TerraNova runs that same analysis on your actual energy balance — continuously.
Site and corporate emission reporting across Scope 1, 2 and biogenic — boiler, refrigeration and process-line granularity.
Marginal abatement costs adjusted for OBPS, CFR credit classes, the CCUS ITC and removal offtakes — the stacking logic from the white paper, computed per project.
Best-fit regional projects — biogas, fuel switching, electrification, BECCS — sequenced against capital cycles and outage windows.
Incentive and compliance management plus regulatory updates and pricing — so the stack that made a project viable stays visible.
Plant-by-plant roadmaps that survive the CFO: lever sequencing, capital planning and incentive capture across OBPS, CFR and the CCUS ITC.
Decarb Strategy →Near-term and net-zero targets on the sector pathway, with biogenic accounting handled correctly from day one.
SBTi FLAG guide for agrifood →BECCS and biogas development support: credit-pathway selection, offtake structuring and verification — turning abatement into revenue.
Industrial carbon projects →Start with the white paper, pressure-test the estimator, then let TerraNova and our advisory team build the plant-specific version — MACC, incentives and all.