BESS carbon credits that improve
affordability and protect the environment.
A carbon payment makes more battery operations more valuable. With greater remuneration, battery energy storage system (BESS) operations displace expensive thermal generation, so power gets cleaner and more affordable.
Powering today. Protecting tomorrow.
About Rational Carbon
We built Rational Carbon because clean power should not cost more. Most programs pay operators to depart from market-optimal dispatch. That raises prices for everyone and mostly benefits the thermal generators storage is meant to displace. We take the opposite approach. We credit batteries for the emissions impact of rational operation.
Cleaner and cheaper. Measured, not assumed.
Gary Dorris
Partner
Founder and executive chairman of Ascend Analytics, a leading 170-person energy analytics software and consulting firm he led as CEO for two decades. Gary pioneered power market modeling for real-time operations, portfolio management, and resource planning, bridging physical production-cost models with financial risk models in more than a dozen applications used by over 200 energy companies. His independent market assessments supported over $100 billion of project financing, and his work financed 100+ gigawatts and $100 billion of clean power generation. He led Hawaiian Electric’s first 100% renewable resource plan and testified as an expert on risk management, asset valuation, and resource planning, including lead expert for Merrill Lynch in the Enron proceedings. He holds a PhD in applied economics and finance, a BS in mechanical engineering, and a BA in economics (magna cum laude), all from Cornell.
Henry Bonner
Partner
Technology company builder with 25+ years scaling critical platform businesses across commodities, trading markets, energy, agribusiness, and supply chain. Henry has built leading trading, risk, and market data platforms, compliance and decision support solutions and helped scale companies from launch to multi hundreds of millions of revenues. He has held executive roles across operations, product, and sales, including CEO and chief product officer positions in growth stage software businesses.
He has led the shift from selling data to selling decisions, merging analytics platforms into machine learning based risk and optimization products and modernizing legacy software into API-first platforms. He has led multiple investments and M&A for sponsor-backed and public companies, and brings the operating discipline to take a new market from idea to scale.
Rational Carbon partners with 1089, a Boulder-based carbon market infrastructure company. 1089 turns production data into verified, insured carbon assets with a transparent audit trail from issuance through retirement. Together, we bring institutional-grade trust to carbon markets. www.1089inc.com
Additionality, without distorting the market.
A carbon payment makes BESS more competitive, thus displacing more thermal generation. No one has to bid away from the market to earn the credit.
Additionality, measured
Every credit discloses how much of the outcome was incremental.
Confirmable
Emissions are matched to each interval at the finest location the market publishes. Every credit carries its inputs with it, so the numbers can be rerun.
Turn the dispatch you already run into credit revenue.
You keep dispatching the way the market tells you to. We pay you to run more cycles, which lowers prices and cuts emissions, and every cycle becomes a credit you can sell.
1No change to dispatch
Keep bidding to the market. Nothing to withhold or shift, and nothing to explain to ratepayers or regulators.
2Paid for past and future cycles
New and existing batteries qualify. We can compensate reductions from the last 3 years, and we pay for the extra cycles incented by Rational Carbon.
3A number you can check
Every credit is matched to your location, interval by interval, with each input disclosed, so your stakeholders and counsel can review it.
Know exactly what you are buying.
Every credit comes with its evidence. You see how much of the outcome was incremental, what was measured, and what was estimated.
1Disclosed additionality
Each credit states the share that is additional.
2No market distortion
Dispatch stays market-optimal, so there is no chasing carbon over dispatch value.
3Interval-level matching
Emissions are tied to each interval at the finest location the market publishes, not a flat rate.
4Reproducible inputs
Every input is sourced and travels with the credit, so your counsel, auditors, or a third party can rerun the numbers.
5Standards-based verification
Verified, insured and tracked from issuance through retirement managed by our partner 1089 (www.1089inc.com).
6Aligned by design
We earn a share of the credits we generate, so our incentive is delivery. Verification, insurance and tracking sit with our partner 1089, and every input is disclosed so you can check our work.
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