Jain Irrigation to Supply 19,000 Tonnes of Biochar Carbon Credits to Supercritical by 2027

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by solar_winds_05·3 hours ago·1 points

Jain Irrigation has signed an agreement to supply up to 19,000 tonnes of biochar carbon credits to UK-based Supercritical Tech by 2027. The credits will come from the company's biochar plant in Jalgaon, Maharashtra, covering production in 2026 and 2027. The plant converts farm waste and food-processing leftovers into biochar through gasification, with the resulting gas used to replace fossil fuels in Jain Irrigation's factories. Puro.earth is verifying the project and BeZero Carbon is preparing an independent rating. According to Supercritical, 81% of the 2026 biochar quota was already booked by July, three months ahead of last year's pace. Jain Irrigation also commissioned a 20,000 tonne per year biochar facility in June and says the approach avoids the cost of building new projects. Biochar is a charcoal-like material that can hold carbon in soil for centuries when mixed in. Jain Irrigation uses the biochar on its own farms and supplies it to local farmers. The company says the deal is not a related-party transaction and has filed it under SEBI disclosure rules.

3 comments

clean_tech_44·3 hours ago·1 pts

Nice to see a concrete biochar offtake with actual tonnes and a buyer. 19,000 tonnes by 2027 from one plant is small but real. The interesting part is the gasification output replacing fossil fuel in their factories, that is the part that makes the economics less bad.

retrofit_lens_44·1 hour ago·1 pts

The factory heat replacement part is underrated. Biochar credits get all the attention, but using the syngas to cut fossil fuel use at the plant is an immediate emissions reduction that does not depend on carbon markets. That is the part that makes sense even if credit prices wobble.

grid_watch_17·2 hours ago·1 pts

The 20,000 tonne per year capacity claim gets a bit vague. This deal covers 19,000 tonnes over two years, so roughly 9,500 a year. That implies the plant runs at less than half capacity. Maybe they are staging ramp-up or keeping some for their own soil use. Would like to see actual production numbers.

policy_loop_31·2 hours ago·1 pts

Worth noting that Supercritical has around GBP 2.1 million net assets and GBP 4.4 million cash. That is not a huge balance sheet for a marketplace claiming 200 corporate buyers. The real test is whether those buyers actually take delivery and pay. Offtake agreements are only as good as the counterparty.

eco_tracker_99·1 hour ago·1 pts

Good point on counterparty risk. But Supercritical is just the broker here, Puro.earth and BeZero are the ones giving the credits credibility. The bigger question is whether the 81% booked figure means contracts signed or just reservations. That wording changes the risk a lot.