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South Africa’s first Verra-registered platform for commercial solar carbon credits. We register your installation, do the heavy lifting, and pay you the revenue.
Paid out as credits are sold, year on year.
Indicative projection, your actual share and revenue are confirmed in your detailed proposal.
Not a quick-cash product. A 10-year recurring revenue stream.
Tell us the system size, commissioning date, and location. We confirm eligibility and return a 10-year revenue projection.
We work with you to gather the technical evidence: generation data, ownership records, monitoring access. Your client portal walks you through it.
Independent auditors verify your installation. Verra issues credits to our registry account. We sell them, and you get paid.
Eligibility
A few quick checks. If something doesn’t quite line up, it’s still worth a conversation.
From agricultural sites and warehouses to office parks and manufacturing facilities. Residential installations don’t currently fit the methodology.
We work with both. Get in touch with what you have and we’ll confirm what fits.
Required for our upcoming Verra submission. Pre-2025 installations may still qualify under different mechanisms. Get in touch.
Off-grid installations are usually not eligible.
Credit rights default to the system owner. If you have a PPA or lease, the contract usually defines this, and it’s often negotiable.
Verra requires metered generation data from a calibrated meter. Most commercial installations already have one. If yours doesn’t, we arrange it.
Not sure where you stand? Send us your installation details and we’ll confirm in writing.
What you’re selling
A carbon credit represents one tonne of avoided or removed emissions (1 tCO₂e). Your solar displaces electricity from South Africa’s coal-heavy grid, and that displacement, when properly verified, becomes a tradeable credit. Under the Carbon Tax Act, large emitters offset their tax liability by buying credits from approved registries. Verra is the largest of these. We issue Verra Carbon Units (VCUs).
The credits your installation generates. Each one represents a verified tonne of avoided emissions, issued by Verra and tradeable on the voluntary market. SA carbon tax compliant.
Separate from carbon credits. RECs prove your generation is renewable. We can help with REC origination if your installation pre-dates 2025 and doesn’t qualify for VCUs.
South African Carbon Tax Rate Outlook (R/tCO₂e)
South Africa’s carbon tax is legislated to rise sharply through 2030. Source: National Treasury, Carbon Tax Act schedules.
As the carbon tax rises, the price of the carbon credits you generate rises with it.
Who this is for
We come from the renewable energy industry: engineers, developers, and operators with decades of experience building, financing, and running solar in South Africa. We’ve been on your side of the table.
You designed the system, you commissioned it, you signed the PPA. Now your client wants to know what else their asset can earn. We do the registration; you keep the relationship.
If your roof or yard hosts a commercial or industrial-scale solar array, it fits. Your panels are already producing. We turn that production into a second revenue stream, with no impact on your generation, your tariff, or your operations.
Carbon revenue is an income stream most fund models still ignore. We make it visible, verifiable, and bankable, every credit traceable on Verra’s public registry.
If you’re an asset owner outside these categories (a municipality, a property fund, a school portfolio), we’d still like to hear from you. Most South African C&I solar fits.
South Africa has thousands of megawatts of grid-connected commercial and industrial solar: assets generating clean electricity and displacing emissions from a coal-heavy grid. Almost none of that displacement was being claimed as carbon revenue. The credits were sitting unmonetised because registration is detailed and most asset owners don’t have the in-house expertise to navigate it.
We started Captive Carbon to close that gap. We registered with Verra (Project 3659), partnered with the right validators and verifiers, and built the methodology and infrastructure to bring South African C&I solar to the carbon market, at scale, on terms that work for asset owners.
Two things drive what we do. A commercial conviction: the renewable assets that are already in operation deserve to earn every Rand they’re capable of producing. And a mission we share with our clients: South Africa’s just energy transition needs every available revenue stream working for it.
Our lead project, VCS 3659 (Nesa Solar PV Grouped Project), was the first Verra-registered commercial solar carbon credit project in South Africa, registered in July 2024 and validated by TÜV NORD. The methodology and infrastructure built to register VCS 3659 now supports every new portfolio we onboard. You don’t start from scratch, you inherit a validated registration pathway.
Send us your system size, commissioning date, and location. We’ll come back with a 10-year revenue projection.
