TerraPass project portfolio

To ensure maximum transparency and accountability, every TerraPass offset purchase is verified in a periodic audit conducted by an accredited third party.

The audit covers several aspects of our business:

• Purchase history. Do we actually buy the necessary amount of carbon offsets on behalf of our customers? To ensure that we do, the auditor examines our customer records and offset purchase contracts.
• Offset quality. Do we adhere to the quality metrics that we say we support? The auditor examines our carbon offset portfolio to ensure that it meets our stated standards.
• Consumer protection. Do we publicly disclose the contents of every TerraPass purchase? The auditor requires that we include a product content label with every TerraPass purchase, which is sort of like an ingredient list alerting customers to exactly what they're buying.

The project portfolio listings below are part of our audit submittals. We publish each year's full portfolio once it has been verified by our auditor. Customers who choose a custom mix of project types, or who purchase through certain partners such as Expedia or Enterprise Rent-A-Car, receive offsets from a subset of the overall portfolio.

Project feedback

Before TerraPass commits any project to its consumer offset portfolio, it undertakes a 30-day public comment period during which stakeholders and members of the public can give feedback on the project and its elegibility for a consumer offset portfolio. Read more and see the latest projects in our Project feedback section.

Skip to: 2009 projects |2008 projects and audit | 2007 projects and audit | 2006 projects and audit | 2004-2005 projects and audit

 

 

2011 Project Portfolio

Status: open

Customers who purchase offsets in the second half of 2010 and through 2011 will support offsets which were generated in 2009, 2010 or 2011. Please see this page for a list of projects we are currently funding.

 

 

2009-2010 Project Portfolio

Status: open and awaiting verification

We are fulfiling the vast majority of our 2009 and first-half 2010 customer purchases with offsets created in 2009 and 2010. Many of these offsets are undergoing their 2010 verifications now. We will conduct and publish an 18-month audit as soon as these verifications and the audit is complete.

 

 

2008 Project Portfolio

Status: verified and audited
Total metric tons CO2: 211,836

The projects listed below detail our final portfolio for customers who purchased offsets from the main TerraPass portfolio between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008. The listing is verified and audited.

Read the third-party auditor report (pdf) »

Project Name	Location	Type	Vintage	CO2e (mT)	Standard	Verifier	Status
Geerlings Hillside Farms	Overisel, MI	FP	2008	900	CCX	SES	Verified
George DeRuyter and Sons Dairy	Outlook, WA	FP	2008	26,400	CCX	SES	Verified
Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority	Lebanon, PA	LFG	2008	4,458	CCX	RSGA	Verified
			2008	17,515	VCS2007	TUV	Verified
Green Valley Dairy	Krakow, WI	FP	2008	11,900	CCX	SES	Verified
L.P. Gill Landfill	Jackson, NE	LFG	2008	1,300	CCX	FE	Verified
				5,793	CAR	FE	Verified
Robeson County Landfill	St. Pauls, NC	LFG	2008	2,019	CAR	RMA	Verified
Scenic View Dairy I	Fennville, MI	FP	2008	1,150	CAR	RMA	Verified
			2008	10,900	CCX	SES	Verified
Scenic View Dairy II	Freeport, MI	FP	2008	4,300	CCX	SES	Verified
				1,088	CAR	RMA	Verified
Sioux Falls Regional Sanitary Landfill	Sioux Falls, SD	LFG	2008	1,600	CCX	FE	Verified
				74,600	CAR	FE	Verified
Tatanka Wind Farm	Forbes, ND	CE	2008	47,913	REP	SL	Verified

 

Key
CO2 reductions
mT	Metric ton (1mT = 2,204.6 lbs = 1.102 short tons)
Project types
FP LFG CE	Farm power Landfill gas capture Clean energy
Standards
CAR CCX REP VCS2007	Climate Action Reserve Chicago Climate Exchange (bilateral trades) Renewable Energy Protocol Voluntary Carbon Standard 2007
Verifiers
FE RMA RSGA SES SL TUV	First Environment Ryerson, Master and Associates Richardson, Smith Gardner & Associates SES Inc. SingerLewak TUV SUD Americas

 

 

2007 Project Portfolio

Status: verified and audited
Total metric tons CO2: 212,040

The projects listed below detail our final portfolio for customers who purchased offsets from the main TerraPass portfolio between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007. The listing is verified and audited.

Read the third-party auditor report (pdf) »

Project Name	Location	Type	Vintage	CO2e (mT)	Standard	Verifier	Status
Blue Canyon Wind Farm	Anadarko, OK	CE	2007	12,000	G-E REC	SL	Verified
Clover Hill Dairy	Campbellsport, WI	FP	2007	4,800	CCX	SES	Verified
Foote Creek I Wind Farm	Arlington, WY	CE	2007	11,748	G-E REC	SL	Verified
George DeRuyter and Sons Dairy	Outlook, WA	FP	2007	21,700	CCX	SES	Verified
Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority	Lebanon, PA	LFG	2007	4,500	CCX	RSGA	Verified
Green Valley Dairy	Krakow, WI	FP	2007	10,400	CCX	SES	Verified
Haubenschild Farms Dairy	Princeton, MN	FP	2008	1,200	CCX	SES	Verified
			2007	2,000	CCX	SES	Verified
Hilarides Dairy	Lindsay, CA	FP	2007	8,400	CCX	SES	Verified
Holsum Elm Dairy	Hilbert, WI	FP	2007	20,400	CCX	SES	Verified
L.P. Gill Landfill	Jackson, NE	LFG	2008	21,900	CCX	FE	Verified
Leaning Juniper I Wind Farm	Arlington, OR	CE	2007	20,559	G-E REC	SL	Verified
Nobelhurst Farms	Linwood, NY	FP	2008	900	CCX	SES	Verified
			2007	2,500	CCX	SES	Verified
Rock River Wind Farm	Arlington, WY	CE	2007	26,433	G-E REC	SL	Verified
Scenic View Dairy I	Fennville, MI	FP	2007	10,100	CCX	SES	Verified
Sioux Falls Regional Sanitary Landfill	Sioux Falls, SD	LFG	2007	31,200	CCX	FE	Verified
Vanderhaak Farms Dairy	Lynden, WA	FP	2007	1,300	CCX	SES	Verified

 

Key
CO2 reductions
mT	Metric ton (1mT = 2,204.6 lbs = 1.102 short tons)
Project types
FP LFG CE	Farm power Landfill gas capture Clean energy
Standards
CCX G-E REC	Chicago Climate Exchange (bilateral trades) Green-e Energy Renewable Energy Certificate
Verifiers
FE RSGA SES SL	First Environment Richardson, Smith Gardner & Associates SES Inc. SingerLewak

 

2006 Project Portfolio

Total pounds of carbon reduced: 220,426,931

TerraPass' 2006 emission reduction obligations were fulfilled from a portfolio of two-thirds greenhouse gas reductions from landfill gas capture and farm power; and one-third clean energy from wind power and landfill power. All projects met our quality criteria: independent verification, ongoing monitoring, and matched maturity. TerraPasses purchased in 2006 were fulfilled with reductions of vintage 2006. All clean energy projects & renewable energy credits were Green-e certified, and all other projects were conducted and verified according to the rules of the Chicago Climate Exchange. All projects in this portfolio are listed below.

View our 2006 audit in PDF format

Complete 2006 Project Listing

Project Name	Location	Type	Pounds of CO2 reductions	% of Total	Details
CrossRoads Landfill	Norridgewock, ME	Landfill gas capture	99,207,000	45	Methane-based carbon reductions verified to the Chicago Climate Exchange
Blue Canyon	Anadarko, OK	Wind	33,465,828	15	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
Ainsworth Wind Energy Facility	Ainsworth, NE	Wind	30,974,630	14	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
Holsum Irish Dairy	Hilbert, WI	Farm power	16,743,937	8	Two-cell heated plug flow digester with grid-tied electricity generation
Bos & Herrema Dairies	Fair Oaks, IN	Farm power	14,109,440	6	Plug flow digester with grid-tied electricity generation and onsite use of solids.
Bavarian Landfill	Boone County, KY	Landfill power	10,714,356	5	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates generated from landfill gas
Garwin McNeilus wind farm	Dodge Center, MN	Wind	6,613,800	3	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
Haubenschild Farms dairy	Princeton, MN	Farm power	3,086,440	1	Heated plug flow digester with grid-tied electricity and waste hot water used for onsite needs.
Tontitown Landfill	Tontitown, AR	Landfill gas capture	2,865,980	1	Methane-based carbon reductions verified to the Chicago Climate Exchange
Vanderhaak Farms dairy	Lynden, WA	Farm power	2,645,520	1	Mixed plug flow digester with grid-tied electricity generation. Waste hot water used for onsite needs.

2004-2005 Project Portfolio

2004-2005: Total pounds of carbon reduced: 43,719,334

TerraPass' 2004-2005 emission reduction obligations were fulfilled from a portfolio of clean energy from wind power (32%), agricultural methane destruction connected with farm power (30%), landfill gas capture (22%), clean energy from landfill gas power (11%), and miscellaneous unspecified reductions from the Chicago Climate Exchange member portfolios (7%). All projects met our quality criteria: independent verification, ongoing monitoring, and reductions which occurred consistent with the timeframe of our external auditing cycle (in this case, late 2004 through 2005). All projects in this portfolio are listed below.

View our 2004-2005 audit in PDF format

Complete 2004-2005 Project Listing

Project Name	Location	Type	Pounds of CO2 reductions	% of Total	Details
Tontitown Landfill	Tontitown, AR	Landfill gas capture	9,479,780	22	Methane-based carbon reductions
Haubenschild Farms dairy	Princeton, MN	Farm power	7,275,180	17	Heated plug flow digester with grid-tied electricity and waste hot water used for onsite needs
Vanderhaak Farms dairy	Lynden, WA	Farm power	5,511,500	13	Mixed plug flow digester with grid-tied electricity generation. Waste hot water used for onsite needs
Garwin McNeilus wind farm	Dodge Center, MN	Wind power	5,024,283	11	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
Catawba County landfill	Blackburn Landfill, Catawba County, NC	Landfill gas power	4,718,726	11	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
Ainsworth Wind Energy Facility	Ainsworth, NE	Wind power	4,303,379	10	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
Chicago Climate Exchange	U.S.	Unspecified	3,086,440	7	CCX member allowances purchased and retired
Mountain View I and II wind projects	San Gorgonio Pass, California	Wind power	2,957,846	7	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
Cabazon/Whitewater Hill wind projects	San Gorgonio Pass, California	Wind power	1,141,740	3	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates
High Winds Projects	Solano County, CA	Wind power	220,460	1	Green-e certified renewable energy certificates. Local sheep and barley farmers receive per-turbine lease payments