Qualifyby EnerlinkOne plant is a question. Forty is a problem.
You have solar across dozens of sites. Find out which of them generate saleable carbon credits — and what the portfolio is worth — in an afternoon rather than a quarter.
- Most groups your size have no one in-house who can answer this. That is not a gap in your team; the rules changed twice in two years.
- We'll tell you which sites qualify, under which route, and what each is worth. Whether or not you work with us afterwards.
- Around R1.33 million per MW over five years, on conservative assumptions we'll show you.
- Sites commissioned before 2025 are turned away by most providers. We can often still include them through an existing project.
Indicative value · at 1.0 MW
R1.15m–R1.33m
4 of 4 routes still in play
Answer two questions and we’ll show what this builds to.
At R270 a tonne.
Where does your power go?
Four routes exist. Answer three questions and we’ll narrow them.
Which of these is you?
The answer changes depending on what you're holding.
One plant
A factory, farm, packhouse or office park with a single array. You want to know whether this is worth your attention at all.
Check one plant
A portfolio
A retail group, property fund or industrial group with solar across many sites. Nobody in the business can say which of them qualify.
Assess a portfolio
A carbon tax bill
Your liability is climbing toward R462 a tonne while allowances shrink. Your own generation may be able to offset part of it.
Check what you could offset
I'm an EPC or developer
You install or develop for clients and want to bring them something worth having. Run a client's site, get a shareable report, earn a share of what it becomes.
Take this to your clientThree minutes gets you this
A verdict on all four routes, a score with its reasons, what's missing, and what it's worth — the whole thing, shown in full below.
Your plant qualifies under two of four routes
Recommended: grid connected, VCS v5.0 — the only route open before 1 January 2027
VCS v4.7
behind the meter
not eligibleVCS v5.0
grid connected
recommendedI-REC
certificates
also openDER
issued in days
needs infoIndicative value, five years at 4.2 MW
R4.85m–R5.60m
Window remaining
3 months
An example result. Yours will differ.
See the full example reportThis is the full report for our example plant. Yours takes three minutes.
Your indicative verdict
This plant looks like a strong candidate for a carbon project.
Your free verdict
On these answers your plant lands on VCS v4.7 — behind the meter. That is the highest-value route available to you.
The qualification matrix
Indicative, based on your answers. Tap any row for a plain-language explanation.
How much of your generation goes to your own load versus the grid decides which route can even apply. We confirm this for your project.
How we read this plant
Five factors that decide whether a project stands up. Indicative, and never all high.
Weighted against six years of projects we have taken through the process ourselves — including the ones that did not make it.
Indicative value
R4.27 million to R4.92 million
Indicative value · 4.4 years remaining on our project · at 4.2 MW
Our project credits until March 2031. Every month before you join is a month you can't get back — roughly R22k per megawatt.
The period is renewable twice, so it could run to 2045. Renewal isn't guaranteed, so we quote what's certain.
- Yield: 1,500 kWh/kWp (conservative)
- Emission factor: 0.94 tCO2e/MWh (South Africa)
- Carbon price: R234–270/tonne (tax-linked, conservative forecast to our current sale price)
- Owner share: 70% (indicative)
Monitoring period 3 is open until 30 November 2026.
Miss it and your plant waits for the next period, which runs a full twelve months.
How long you earn
We quote the first crediting period. Renewal is upside — it depends on the project still qualifying when the time comes, so we never headline it.
| Route | First period | We quote | Renewable to |
|---|---|---|---|
| VCS v4.7Yours | 7 years | 4.4 years(remaining) | 21 years(if still qualifying) |
| VCS v5.0 | 5 years | 5 years | 15 years(if still qualifying) |
| I-REC | 1 year | annualised | rolling(if still qualifying) |
| DER | 12 months | annualised | rolling(if still qualifying) |
A behind-the-meter joiner inherits what's left of our project's crediting period, not a fresh term — currently 4.4 years.
What it adds up to.
Cumulative value across the 7-year first period. Dashed bars are renewal upside — real, never guaranteed.
What is missing
Proof of who holds the environmental attributes
You can only sell attributes you actually hold.
First-generation date evidence
This date decides which route, and which deadline, applies.
Historical generation data
Verification is far easier with historical data.
Confirmation the generation is not already claimed
Generation counted elsewhere usually cannot be sold again.
Not ready to spend anything?
Download the free PDF and come back whenever. Nothing expires.
The Verified Report, one plant.
Your free result is built on what you told us. This one is built on what we verified.
- · We read your ownership documents and confirm who actually holds the rights
- · We read your PPA or wheeling agreement and confirm whether the attributes travelled
- · We connect your generation data and assess it against what verification will need
- · We run the additionality benchmark on your real financials, not on assumptions
- · A named next action from a person, and a file you can hand to a verifier
R1,950 · Back within two working days.
Get the Verified ReportFour routes.
Knowing which one is yours is the whole problem.
- If you register before 1 Jan 2027
- 7 years, renewable twice, or 10 years fixed
- If you register from 1 Jan 2027
- 5 years, renewable twice
- Time to first payment
- 9–13 months
- Size limit
- 15 MW per project
- Deadline
- new listings close 1 Jan 2027
- Can you try it first
- no
- If you register before 1 Jan 2027
- 5 years, renewable twice
- If you register from 1 Jan 2027
- 5 years, renewable twice
- Time to first payment
- 12–18 months
- Size limit
- none
- Deadline
- register before 1 Jan 2027
- Can you try it first
- no
- If you register before 1 Jan 2027
- 1 year at a time
- If you register from 1 Jan 2027
- 1 year at a time
- Time to first payment
- months
- Size limit
- none per device; groups capped at 50 sites / 5 MW
- Deadline
- none
- Can you try it first
- yes
- If you register before 1 Jan 2027
- 12 months
- If you register from 1 Jan 2027
- 12 months
- Time to first payment
- days
- Size limit
- none
- Deadline
- none
- Can you try it first
- yes
Only one route changes with the date. The grid-connected route runs on the current standard either way.
No size limit on the main route. From one megawatt to five hundred.
The route changes with the size. Whether we can do it does not.
One plant is a question. Forty is a problem.
A single array is a yes or no. A portfolio is a spreadsheet nobody owns — different commissioning dates, different export profiles, different owners of the rights. Some sites will already be past their window. Some will qualify under a route you haven't heard of.
We run every site and give you the list, ranked, with the ones that expire first at the top.
Assess a portfolioWhat this costs
The whole assessment is free.
R0the result, always free
All twelve questions, no gate, no payment, no account. You get the routes open and closed with reasons, a score band, an indicative value with every assumption shown, a gap list, and a PDF of all of it.
The Verified Report, one plant.
R1,950per plant, once
Your free result is built on what you told us. This one is built on what we verified.
- We read your ownership documents and confirm who actually holds the rights
- We read your PPA or wheeling agreement and confirm whether the attributes travelled
- We connect your generation data and assess it against what verification will need
- We run the additionality benchmark on your real financials, not on assumptions
- A named next action from a person, and a file you can hand to a verifier
Back within two working days.
Get the Verified ReportAssessing a portfolio is priced.
From R35,000scoped to your site count
Running dozens of sites through the engine, resolving each set of ownership documents and ranking them by expiry is real work. You'll know the number before we start.
Book a portfolio assessmentLicensed for partners.
Licence + shareinstallers, OEMs, traders, banks
Equipment makers, electricity traders, consultants and banks can run the engine under their own brand. Licence plus a share of what it earns.
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We'll tell you if the answer is no
We have no stake in your answer. The engine tells you what you qualify for whether or not you work with us — and it says no often, because most plants do not qualify for everything.
- 142,345
- tonnes issued
- 14,798
- tonnes verified
- 22,756
- plants monitored
- 208.8
- GWh generated
Under our own ISO-accredited standard.
In our first Verra monitoring period, pending issuance.
The dataset the engine is calibrated against.
Across the plants we monitor.
ISO-accredited
Our own standard is independently accredited
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Your start date already earned you something.
The heaviest requirements under the new standard — a stakeholder engagement plan, a benefit-sharing mechanism, a safeguards assessment — are tied to when a project was first committed to, not when it registers.
Any project committed before 1 January 2027 has all three deferred to 2030. A project starting after that date has to complete them before it begins.
That part is locked in. What hasn't locked in is your crediting period.
Two clocks.
One you know about. One you probably don't.
Your start date
Already fixed. It's what defers the heaviest requirements to 2030.
Registration request due
Validation takes nine to twelve months and has to finish before submission. The clock started the day your plant first produced a kilowatt-hour. Check where your plant sits.
4 months to decide, then 12 months of validation. Your deadline is 1 February 2028.
Roughly R1.17m per megawatt over the 4.4 years remaining, forfeited permanently.
VCS v5.0 waiting list · 2027The questions that actually stop people
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