Mining Operator, Ontario

Pulling diesel out of the drift.

An underground mining operator replacing diesel haulage with a battery-electric rail system on the main drift, backed by ~50 heavy electric support units (LHDs, service trucks, yard loaders). Diesel particulate exposure drops for underground crews, ventilation and cooling loads fall, and the same tonnes of ore leave the mine on electric wheels.

Electrified units powering the credit stream.

What the operator receives each year.

At current CFR pricing (~$400 / credit), a heavy-duty electric mining fleet in Ontario anchored by a battery-electric rail backbone generates on the order of ~4,092 tCO₂e / year of CFR credits — around CAD 1.64 million 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 (Fuel LCA Model v4.0), EER per ECCC Schedule 5 (heavy construction at 5.0, rail haulage treated as heavy-duty diesel replacement at 5.0*), Ontario grid CI ~12 gCO₂e/MJ per ECCC Specifications for Fuel LCA Model CI Calculations 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 1.60M/yr across the cycle.

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

ZEV Catalyst manages novel-equipment classification with the CFR registrar for the battery-electric locomotive class, handles LCA review, installs sub-metering at underground charging substations, and builds the audit trail the third-party verifier needs around underground kWh accounting — all outside what the mine’s ordinary compliance team would be scoped for. The operator signs one agreement and sees one payment after each cycle.