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The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to 45Z Compliance LCA

July 21, 2026 |

Section 45Z allows producers to claim site-specific, actual carbon intensity (CI) values for higher credits, but this demands extensive data collection and verification. These substantiation costs create a fixed overhead that disproportionately burdens smaller projects, often forcing them to use less lucrative default CI values. Claiming actual values requires robust, scalable data infrastructure across the supply chain. Producers must carefully weigh these regressive assurance costs against the potential credit uplift, making methodology choice a strategic data-capability decision.

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