Waste-to-Carbon Infrastructure  ·  Domestic Solution

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toValue.

Opala Energy finances and owns distributed waste-to-carbon infrastructure — turning America's underused biomass into domestic carbon products, firm power, and optional durable carbon removal.

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Press — Apr 7, 2026

Opala Energy is building distributed waste-to-carbon infrastructure with BioEnergy Development — producing certified biochar and behind-the-meter power from day one, with activated carbon modules added where feedstock spec and buyer qualification justify the upgrade.

Our Foundation

The contracted baseline.Certified carbon products & firm power.

Opala is not a biomass company. It is a distributed domestic carbon-products infrastructure platform. We finance, acquire, and own modular waste-to-carbon assets at the source of biomass — turning secured agricultural and forestry residues into certified carbon products and firm power.

Every Opala asset produces two things from the first operation: certified biochar and behind-the-meter power. Both exist the moment an EXRGY™ unit runs — no additional equipment, no waiting on a market to develop. This is the contracted floor every project stands on. Biocarbon and Activated carbon are the higher-value upgrades we build on top of it.

Our Foundation · Produced From Day One

Certified Biochar & Behind-the-Meter Power

100%

of feedstock becomes biochar from the first production.

74%

biochar's share of delivered durable CDR globally.

<6mo

from operation to first certified CORC-bearing tonnes (Puro.earth)
Certified to Puro.earth methodology · Behind-the-meter power delivered under PPA

The Production Stack

Biochar is the base.Activated carbon is the upgrade.

The single most important fact about an Opala asset: we are permanently a biochar producer. Activated carbon is a variable-percentage upgrade applied on top of that base, where feedstock spec and site economics justify it. Whether we are a biochar producer is settled. The only thing that moves between sites is how much of that biochar is upgraded to activated carbon.

100%
Feedstock → Biochar
All secured feedstock converts to biochar from the first operation of pyrolysis. This is the base product at every site, always — certifiable and CORC-bearing from day one.
Variable
Biochar → Biocarbon → Activated Carbon (the upgrades)
A variable share of biochar is upgraded to biocarbon and activated carbon where spec and economics justify — the highest-value products, earned through operating data, product testing, and buyer qualification. This percentage is the only thing that moves between sites.
Always
Off-spec → Certified Biochar
Material that cannot be AC-upgraded — present even at mature AC-priority sites — is sold as certified biochar with a documented end use. The biochar floor never disappears.

Built-In Upside

Upside on top of
the foundation.

On the certified-biochar-and-power floor, each site can add higher-value products as operating data and market channels justify them. None is required for a project to pencil — each is upside earned on a base that is already contracted.

01

Activated Carbon · The Upgrade

Granular AC for PFAS water treatment

EPA PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation
$1,500–2,000/t
Contracted activated carbon pricing — the highest-value upgrade, earned per site once the module is commissioned and the channel is qualified.2
02

Agricultural Biochar Markets

Methane reduction for California dairy

California SB 1383 · 40% methane reduction by 2030
2.4M
Metric tons CO₂e — the California Air Resources Board's projected shortfall against the 2030 target, against the largest dairy industry in the U.S.
03

Forestry & Carbon Removal

Forest thinning + durable CORCs

Farm Bill §8434 · Puro.earth CORCs · CO2X $125–145
$50M
REAP loan-guarantee ceiling, doubled, for forest-thinning conversion. Durable carbon removal credits stay upside, never base-case.
§8434 House-passed Apr 2026. Advancing to Senate. Not yet enacted.
Four distinct revenue streams, kept separate: physical biochar, carbon removal credits (CORCs), biocarbon, activated carbon, and energy. Plus transferable §48E tax credits and 100% bonus depreciation. Carbon credits improve financeability — they are underwritten as upside, never as base-case revenue.
100%
Feedstock becoming certified biochar from day one
4
Distinct revenue streams: biochar, CORCs, AC, energy
<6mo
To first certified CORC-bearing tonnes
7
Projects operational or in development by 2027

The Feedstock

Hundreds of millions of tons of agricultural and forestry residues sit unused across the United States every year. This is the raw material for the business.

The Resource

A billion tons,
hiding in plain sight.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Billion-Ton Report — its authoritative national assessment, deliberately retitled An Assessment of U.S. Renewable Carbon Resources — confirms the country can sustainably produce more than a billion dry tons of biomass every year. The category is not supply-constrained. The opportunity is that almost none of it is captured.

Total Resource

1.0–1.5B
dry tons per year of U.S. biomass — federally validated. The category ceiling is not the constraint.

Addressable Slice

175M
tons/yr of agricultural residues, plus tens of millions of tons of forest & logging residues — the streams Opala targets.

Secured Today

2
operating assets with secured feedstock — Opala's AC module at HMR-EJ1 in Montana (operating, with BESi) and the Grower Direct development in California
The DOE figures are deliberately conservative — they exclude irrigated land, protected areas, and residue that must remain for soil quality. The billion-ton number is a floor built on sustainability constraints, not an aspirational ceiling.

The Technology Is Not the Bet

The EXRGY units are operating commercially today. The investment risk is replication, not invention.

What We Do

Infrastructure at the source of waste.

Opala Energy finances, acquires, and owns modular waste-to-carbon systems deployed directly at the source of biomass. Each facility is operated by best-in-class partners under long-term agreements, producing specification-grade carbon products from 100% domestic feedstock.

We build systems that produce contracted carbon products and firm power first — then layer higher-value mandated-market products, including biocarbon and activated carbon, where site economics and qualification support the upgrade.

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Central Valley, California  ·  Walnut Processor

◎ In Development

Opala Project Track · Opala Energy 2, LLC

Central Valley BioGrid™

Base product
Certified biochar (day one)
Plus
Behind-the-meter power (PPA)
Upgrade
ID1200 activated carbon (Phase 2)
Feedstock
Walnut shell · 30,000 T/yr
Certification
Puro.earth — Project Developer

The Investment Case

Contracted revenue.

Mandated demand.

Every asset Opala finances enters operation with contracted revenue — product offtake, power purchase agreements, and a stacked federal tax profile. The upside is real. The floor is structural.

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Carbon Product Offtake

Certified biochar and behind-the-meter power from day one, with activated carbon as the higher-value upgrade earned per site. Sold to agricultural operators, utilities, and industrial buyers under long-term agreements, with offtake contracted or under negotiation ahead of capital deployment.

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02

Power Purchase Agreements

Each facility produces behind-the-meter baseload energy from on-site syngas, delivered to the host site under a contracted PPA — a second revenue stream from the same feedstock with no incremental capital.

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03

Stacked Federal Tax Profile

Transferable Investment Tax Credits under §48E plus permanent 100% bonus depreciation under current federal tax law — two distinct LP structures on a single asset. Target payback under three years before incentives.2

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1 Biochar's share of delivered durable CDR and related market figures are reported by Puro.earth and the Nasdaq-owned registry; indicative, not independently audited.
‍2 Activated carbon pricing reflects indicative contracted ranges for ID1000/ID1200 grades and is not a quoted price; AC is a development-stage upgrade earned per site. [Plus] Four revenue streams (physical biochar, CORCs, activated carbon, energy) are distinct transactions to distinct buyers; carbon removal credits are underwritten as upside, never base-case.
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