Every kWh of electricity that an EV charger delivers in California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, British Columbia, or Canada at the federal level generates carbon credits. For some operators, that can add up to millions of dollars a year. For most, it adds up to nothing either because the operator never sets up the reporting, or the software provider claims the credits on their behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An EV charging operator is the party running chargers day to day. That can be a professional charging network, a utility, a retailer, a fleet company, or a property owner running their own charging operations. For carbon credit purposes, the charger owner is the party typically positioned to claim the credits, not the property owner or the installer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These credits exist because regulators designed a system to fund the buildout of EV charging infrastructure. Producers of carbon intensive fuel (i.e gasoline, diesel) pay into the system, while clean fuel suppliers, including EV charging operators, generate credits and sell them for cash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The revenue at stake is larger than most operators assume. So what does it look like at scale?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FuSE<\/a>, a Clean Fuel Standard management platform in North America, has modeled estimated annual revenue across seven operator profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The estimates above are driven by the per-credit price in each market. Current prices as of June 2026:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A kWh delivered in Canada earns roughly six times what the same kWh earns in Washington. That asymmetry shapes which operator profiles produce the largest revenue lines above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two things historically get in the way of operators capturing this revenue. First, the reporting overhead is real. Registering as a credit generator, capturing the correct and accurate data, third-party verification, and selling strategically is not a side project. Second, many software platforms in the market retain data ownership rights to chargers running on their backends and then claim the credits on behalf of operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is now a turnkey path that addresses both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monta is a software platform powering EV chargers globally. FuSE<\/a> is the same Clean Fuel Standard management platform that provided the scenarios above. The two companies recently launched a direct API integration that automates carbon credit reporting end to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monta operators activate the integration with a toggle button in their Monta platform. Charger session, energy, and metering data flow automatically to FuSE by API. FuSE handles registration, credit generation, and sale across California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and the Canadian federal Clean Fuel Regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two things are worth knowing about the partnership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to collect carbon credits for your chargers, contact Monta here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every kWh of electricity that an EV charger delivers in California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, British Columbia, or Canada at the federal level generates carbon credits. For some operators, that can add up to millions of dollars a year. For most, it adds up to nothing either because the operator never sets up the reporting, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":5830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[113,112,51,41,114],"class_list":["post-5829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monta-update","tag-canada","tag-carbon-credits","tag-network-operators","tag-turnkey-providers","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Example 1: DC Charging Network in California<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Example 2: DC Charging Network in California<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Example 3: DC Charging Depot in California<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Example 4: Fleet DC Charging Depot in California<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Example 5: Residential L2 Charging in Canada<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Example 6: Residential L2 Charging in Canada<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Example 7: Communal Multifamily & Retail in US<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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How operators can capture this revenue<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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