Captured CO2,
turned into bankable cash flow.
Cypress & Maple Advisors takes responsibility for the four jobs that decide whether a carbon project pays: registry selection, sequestration partnership, premium offtake, and lifetime MRV. One counterparty, accountable end-to-end.
What goes wrong without a carbon manager.
Captured CO2 with no registry, no buyer, and no sequestration agreement is just a vented utility cost. Most of the leakage we see traces back to the same four mistakes.
- Wrong registry, wrong buyers
Locking out the premium corporate pool because the methodology was chosen for convenience, not pricing power.
- Additionality breaks under tax stacking
Stacking tax credits and voluntary credits without structuring for it : and failing the additionality test on the back end.
- Retail-rate sequestration
Signing the first storage agreement put in front of you, with no leverage, no competitive tension, and no benchmark.
- Spot-selling into a soft week
Clearing credits on the cheapest day of the year because no structured offtake process was ever run.
Four jobs.
One accountable counterparty.
Most carbon projects fail at the seams between specialists. We hold the seams. Engage us once and the chain : from registry listing to annual verification : is owned by a single firm with a single phone number.
- 01Registry strategy
Register on the right registry
Methodology fit, buyer-pool fit, and additionality survive scrutiny only when the registry is chosen against the geology, the technology, and the offtaker book that will actually pay. We own the comparative analysis, the project design document, the validator relationship, and the listing : through first issuance.
- 02Sequestration
Source the sequestration partner
We negotiate with Class VI well operators and sequestration hubs to lock in permanent storage on commercial terms that survive diligence : pore-space access, injection tariff, liability allocation, monitoring obligations, and transportation routing, all papered. Retail-rate agreements are not in our deal book.
- 03Offtake
Sell credits to investment-grade offtakers
Spot sales leak value. We run the credit sale the way an investment bank runs a debt placement : curated buyer book, structured process, multi-year forward agreements layered with spot tranches. The objective is the highest defensible price, not the fastest clearing price.
- 04MRV & Subpart RR
Own MRV through the life of the project
Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification : including EPA Subpart RR compliance, annual third-party verification, and registry issuance management : stays our problem for the full crediting period. You get reissuance-ready data on a calendar, not a fire drill.
45Q & 45Z consulting for low-CI fuel producers.
The Section 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit pays per gallon, but every penny is gated on carbon intensity. We model CI under 45ZCF-GREET, identify the levers : feedstock, process energy, CCS : that move the score, and stand up the documentation auditors and offtakers will actually accept.
- CI modeling under 45ZCF-GREET
- Feedstock & CCS pathway design
- Provisional emissions rate filings
- Buyer-grade attestation packages
From captured ton to wired payment, on one timeline.
Project, geology, and CI baseline. Registry shortlist. Indicative pricing.
Registry listing, sequestration LOI, MRV plan, Subpart RR scoping.
Buyer book convened. Term sheets negotiated. Long-dated offtake papered.
Verification cycles, reissuance, buyer reporting, dispute resolution.
If you have CO2 to capture or a low-CI fuel to monetize : let’s talk.
Initial conversations are confidential and unbilled. We’ll tell you, on the first call, whether your project is bankable today.