Turning renewable generation into measured, verified carbon reduction.Get the credits you deserve.
Whether you operate a utility, run a small power plant, or have solar panels on your roof, Karbera measures the carbon you displace — hour by hour, reconciled daily against ONS-verified generation. No self-reporting, no invented baselines — hourly verification under Brazil's official displacement factor. The methodology is calibrated to UNFCCC, IPCC, and World Bank standards. Every calculation is public, every input traceable. Free to compute, free to verify.
Distributed generation earns a loss premium: power consumed where it is made displaces grid supply plus the transmission-and-distribution losses that supply never had to incur — an ANEEL-cited line-loss gross-up of roughly 10% on every credited tonne. And any of Brazil's 4.35 million registered plants can be looked up by name, owner, or municipality, with its carbon computed on sight.
Brazil's grid, as Karbera sees it
Every hour, power flows across an interconnected continent. Zoom in and the abstraction resolves into individual plants — the same assets Karbera measures one by one.
What is Karbera? A plain-language primer
No jargon, no prior knowledge assumed. Four short answers to the questions almost everyone has before the first technical page.
What is a carbon offset?
Burning gas or coal to make electricity releases CO₂. When a wind farm, a hydro plant or a rooftop solar array puts a megawatt-hour onto the grid, the grid needs one less megawatt-hour from a fossil plant — so that CO₂ is never emitted. Those emissions that never happened are what people call an offset: a measured reduction, expressed in tonnes of CO₂.
What is a carbon credit?
A credit is one tonne of that reduction, written down in a way someone else is willing to buy. A company that still emits can buy credits to account for emissions it cannot yet eliminate. The tonne is the product; the paperwork proving the tonne is real is what gives it value. One credit = one tonne of CO₂.
So why is it hard?
Because most of the market is built on estimates. Annual averages, self-reported output, baselines chosen by whoever benefits from them. If nobody can check the number, buyers discount it — and the operator who genuinely displaced fossil generation gets paid less than the reduction was worth.
What Karbera does
Karbera measures the reduction hour by hour from public grid data: how much your plant generated, what the grid would otherwise have burned in that hour, your share of the plant, and — for distributed generation — the delivery losses your power never incurred. Brazil's official displacement factor is applied, every input is traceable to its source, and nothing depends on you reporting your own numbers. Free to compute, free to verify.
One honest caveat: a measured tonne is not automatically a tradable credit. Registries and regulated markets have their own issuance rules, and Brazil's regulated market (SBCE) is still being built. What Karbera gives you today is the measurement and the evidence trail — the part that has to be right before any market conversation is worth having.
How Karbera does it
Karbera pulls verified data from the grid, the regulators, and the utilities — and computes the carbon you displace, hour by hour. Continuously. Accurately. Automatically.
Most carbon accounting relies on annual averages and self-reported numbers. Karbera measures what actually happened — so the credits you receive reflect the carbon you actually reduced.
When demand peaks in São Paulo and the grid fires reserve thermal plants to meet it, every MWh injected at that hour — by a rooftop array in Paraopeba, a distributed-generation plant, or a utility-scale solar farm — is a MWh of thermal generation the system didn't need. Had that power not been there, more thermal would have run. That displaced plant is the marginal generator, and its emissions are what your generation truly avoided. Annual averages erase this entirely — on Brazil's hydro-heavy grid they make every hour look the same. Every Karbera credit applies Brazil's official displacement factor (MCTI dispatch-analysis Combined Margin) to generation we independently verify, hour by hour, against ONS records. Next on the methodology roadmap: marginal emission factors (MEF), which identify that displaced generator hour by hour — the hourly-resolution refinement that 24/7 carbon-matched procurement ranks on.
Karbera credits use the national benchmark itself — Brazil's official MCTI factor — applied only to megawatt-hours we can prove. We publish the full derivation and the evidence beneath every tonne — see the comparison.
Four-tier verification taxonomy — every figure carries its mechanism.
Every per-row figure on the site is labelled with the verification tier that produced it. Reviewers audit the mechanism, not just the number.
Hourly generation captured by ONS verified-dispatch data. Utility-scale plants individually dispatched by the national grid operator.
MMGD per-installation modelling reconciled against EPE PDGD cell aggregates within ±15% tolerance.
Capacity-only known from Sistema GD registry; production modelled from regional capacity factors until reconciliation runs.
Not yet publicly discoverable in the Sistema GD registry by titleholder match. These installations can still be verified from a utility bill, with the owner's consent.
Operating renewable assets in Brazil? Use Karbera to see your portfolio's verified carbon abatement — Brazil's official MCTI displacement factor applied to generation we independently verify, hour by hour, against ONS records, with no integration or onboarding required.
What is a verified tonne worth across markets?
An eligibility-and-value map for the category — not a price chart, not a return projection, and never tied to a specific asset. Each band carries a source and as-of date.
Addressable today · Voluntary markets
AddressableWhere independently verified avoided-emission claims from renewable generation transact today, primarily bilateral/OTC. Every Karbera tonne is credited at the MCTI dispatch-analysis Combined Margin — the factor Brazil itself designates for emission reductions — with the metered hourly evidence published beneath it. Realized prices depend on vintage, registry, project type, and counterparty.
Pathways · Brazilian compliance & Article 6
PathwayBrazil's compliance market (SBCE, Lei 15.042/2024) contemplates accredited crediting methodologies (CRVE). Karbera's methodology is built for this bar — fully published, no self-reporting, hourly ONS-verified data — and accreditation under the SBCE managing body is a stated Karbera objective as the system's rules are finalized. Brazil is also accelerating Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM / Article 6) adoption; internationally transferred mitigation outcomes require exactly the provenance and no-double-counting guarantees Karbera's audit architecture provides.
Reference only · Compliance markets (context)
Not eligibleWhat the world's compliance markets pay for a tonne. These systems settle in their own allowances or narrow domestic offset protocols; renewable-displacement credits are not eligible. Shown as reference anchors for what verified carbon is worth where verification is mandatory — not as an available market.
Forward demand · Hourly carbon-matched procurement
EmergingHyperscalers are moving from annual renewable matching to 24/7 hourly carbon-free energy commitments, with granular-certificate standards (EnergyTag) formalizing per-hour attributes. The procurement frontier is emissions-matched: buying the hours that displace the most carbon. Karbera measures precisely that quantity — hourly, per-plant, provenance-attached — and the marginal emission factor (MEF) on our methodology roadmap is the exact signal emissions-first procurement ranks on. Locational value is priced here too: distributed generation carries an ANEEL-cited line-loss gross-up (~10%), because a MWh consumed where it is made displaces grid supply plus the transmission-and-distribution losses that supply never had to incur. No established price benchmark exists yet for granular attributes; this lane shows demand direction, not price.
Indicative reference values, not quotes and not investment advice. Realized prices depend on vintage, registry, project type, additionality assessment, and counterparty; markets shown are not interchangeable, and eligibility differs by system. Karbera displays market-level information only and does not estimate the value of any specific asset or portfolio. CRIOS tokens are not offered for sale; no tokens have been minted and no smart contracts have been deployed. For what verified measurement could mean for your portfolio, contact us.