Certification Services
Ontoly helps building portfolios convert measured energy savings into high-integrity, financial-grade carbon credits
Is Ontoly a fit for your project?
- Best suited for building retrofit projects with ~50 tCO₂e/year or more in emissions reductions
- Estimate your project’s carbon value with our quick tool: Value Assessment Tool
Platform Access Fees
Building representative accounts
Free
- Manage projects and issuance in the secure Ontoly Data Portal
Buyer accounts Coming soon
$750
per account / year
- Buyer workspace for sourcing and tracking purchases (launching soon)
Project Submission Review Required first step
$500
per building
- Establish the carbon value of your retrofit with investment-grade analytics
- Initial full-certification standards alignment assessment and preliminary emissions-reduction quantification per Ontoly Building Emissions Reduction Standard (BERS)™ and applicable methodology
- Market-ready Project Submission – Carbon Credit Report (preliminary credit potential assessed)
- Validation of engineer report assumptions with Ontoly quantification methodology and all Integrity Council of the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) carbon principle checks
- Optional public listing on the Ontoly Registry (eligibility rules apply)
- Value highlight Investor-ready carbon asset blueprint for less than a single engineering site visit
Certification & Credit Issuance Required for credits
$2,000
per property / year of crediting
- Issuance of serialized, marketable Ontoly Building Emissions Reduction Assets (BERA)™ carbon credits with full transparency in building representative account
- Certification in accordance with the Ontoly Building Emissions Reduction Standard (BERS)™
- Annual GHG quantification from real building-level utility & technology data
- Pre-purchase contract support
- Annual Project Final Validation Report and Credit Issuance Report on the public Ontoly Registry
- Independent third-party verification of all GHG quantification formulas, carbon-market assessments and underlying data — building-level utility data inputs are excluded; see Additional Verification Services for an optional buyer add-on
- Option to access Ontoly buyer's network
Prepayment is required in full for the entire crediting period payable on the earlier of the pre-purchase contract’s effective date or the first issuance batch of carbon credits
Buyer network Optional
- Bring your own buyer — Certification & Credit Issuance fees only
- Ontoly-partner buyer matching — Certification & Credit Issuance fees + 5% commission on net buyer purchase amount for all crediting years at pre-purchase contract signing (commission paid by the buyer or the building representative as specified in the pre-purchase contract)
- Value highlight Financial-grade carbon credit issuance with the option to access Ontoly’s buyer network
Additional Verification Services Optional, buyer’s discretion
$500
per property / year of crediting
- Independent, ISO 14064-certified verification for maximum buyer assurance
- Third-party review of all measurement & verification (M&V) for all building representative data inputs
- Separate and independent from Ontoly certification to ensure impartiality
- Payable in full at pre-purchase contract signing
- Ontoly hires verifier on your behalf
- Note — all of Ontoly’s standardized calculations undergo ISO 14064-certified verification on an annual basis; this service is a separate step to have third-party verifiers fully verify the credibility and accuracy of annual building representative data inputs
- Value highlight Low-cost high-trust safeguard that de-risks transactions across all issuance years
Prepayment is required in full for the entire crediting period payable on the earlier of the pre-purchase contract’s effective date or the first issuance batch of carbon credits
Prices exclude applicable taxes. All sales are final and non-refundable. Fees and terms are subject to change without notice. Services are provided subject to applicable agreements and jurisdictional requirement.