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🏅The world’s #1 durable CDR supplier in 2023: Pacific Biochar🏅

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This week’s carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) supplier spotlight features Pacific Biochar: top CDR supplier in 2023 (21% of all deliveries) and #2 on the all-time leaderboard (25.5Kt delivered). Founded in 2016 and based out of Santa Rosa,#California, they are on a mission to put carbon back in the ground and leave a legacy of fertile soil. 


How does Pacific Biochar operate?


🏭 Pacific Biochar uses a unique, low-capital approach that utilizes existing infrastructure by designing, engineering, and implementing modifications to biomass power plants which are then able to deliver CDR in quantities of 3,000 tCO2e to 15,000 tCO2e per year. 


📈 Their modifications to existing biomass power plants for hashtag#biochar production leverage existing infrastructure, trained staff, and hard earned utility and procurement contracts which allows them to get to significant production volume fast. 


🚜The high-quality biochar they make is then distributed primarily in agriculture, and commonly in collaboration with compost yards which increases efficiency and provides additional co-benefits by dropping greenhouse gas (hashtag#GHG) emissions from compost significantly. 


What is Pacific Biochar’s carbon removal strategy?


🌲 Pacific Biochar offers carbon dioxide removal with the tangible co-benefits of aiding forest management efforts in sourcing forest residue biomass, and improving soil health where the biochar is applied. 


🔥 At Pacific Biochar’s California facilities their biochar is manufactured using forest biomass collected primarily from designated high fire hazard areas. Removing excess biomass is essential to reducing catastrophic fire danger and improving forest health.


⚡ Much of the excess forest biomass is chipped and then burned at biomass energy plants, producing power for the energy grid - energy that is considered carbon neutral.


📣Shoutout to Josiah HuntAnnie NicholsCharlie McIntoshRyan Hoffman, and the rest of the Pacific Biochar team - keep smashing those deliveries!


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