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Feedstock
Regional wood-waste sourced from North Carolina forestry and land-clearing operations. Traceable origin, documented moisture, chain-of-custody logged from truck to carbonizer.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Durable carbon removal,
rooted in North
Carolina soil.
Tarheel Carbon Co. converts regional wood waste into biochar — locking carbon into farmland for 1,000+ years and issuing verified CORCs on the Puro.Earth registry.
The Thesis
The CDR market is
demand-constrained
on durable supply.
Corporate buyers are committing billions to removals that actually store carbon for centuries — not offsets that expire with a wildfire. Biochar sits at the intersection of durability, verifiability, and unit economics: delivered today, measured at the molecule, and priced below DAC by an order of magnitude.
Puro.Earth's Biochar Methodology Edition 2025 raised the bar on feedstock traceability, production monitoring, and end-use accounting. Operators who can meet it ship CORCs. Operators who can't, don't. That's the whole market.
- 1,000+ yrPermanence
Biochar carbon bound in stable aromatic structures, resistant to microbial decay on geologic timescales.
- Puro.EarthVerified
Issued under Biochar Methodology Edition 2025 — the most rigorous biochar framework in the CDR market.
- NC-sourcedFeedstock
Regional wood-waste streams keep the supply chain tight, the LCA clean, and the economics defensible.
Our Process
Four steps from waste wood
to a retired CORC.
Tigercat 6040 Carbonizer02
Conversion
Pyrolysis in a Tigercat 6040 Carbonizer. Temperature and residence time tuned to lock fixed carbon into stable aromatic structures — the form that survives for millennia.
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Placement
Biochar is applied as a soil amendment on North Carolina farmland. Carbon is buried in the root zone where it improves water retention, nutrient cycling, and stays put.
Continuous dMRV telemetry04
Verification & Issuance
Mangrove digital MRV streams continuous production and placement data. An accredited VVB audits the batch. Puro.Earth issues CORCs to the registry.
The Technology
Data integrity is the moat.
Buyers aren't paying for biochar — they're paying for defensible tonnes. Our dMRV stack closes the distance between a running carbonizer and a retired CORC, so every credit we ship is instrument-grade and audit-ready from day one.
Tigercat RemoteLog · AEMP 2.0
Machine-level telemetry streams temperature, throughput, and runtime directly off the carbonizer. No self-reported spreadsheets. No ambiguity on batch provenance.
Mangrove Continuous LCA
Every tonne of feedstock and every tonne of biochar flows through Mangrove’s digital MRV pipeline. A continuous, auditable lifecycle assessment — not an annual PDF.
Puro.Earth Registry Push
Verified data moves from our operations into the Puro.Earth registry. CORCs are issued, serialized, and retireable by offtakers with full chain-of-custody.
Carbon Credits
Defensible tonnes,
delivered.
CORCs from Tarheel Carbon are priced on unit economics and backed by continuous MRV. Buyers get durability, traceability, and a registry retirement — not a promise.
Puro.Earth · Biochar Methodology Edition 2025
What you're buying.
- What is a CORC?
- A CO₂ Removal Certificate issued by Puro.Earth. One CORC equals one metric tonne of CO₂ removed and durably stored. Serialized, tracked, and retireable on the registry.
- Why Puro Edition 2025
- The 2025 methodology tightened feedstock rules, production monitoring requirements, and end-use accounting. Credits issued under it are among the most defensible CDR instruments on the market.
- Offtake pathway
- Forward contracts via Carbonfuture, or direct offtake with qualified corporate buyers. Pricing reflects durability, vintage, and volume commitment.
Partners & Counterparties
The stack we trust.
Representative counterparties across registry, MRV, equipment, and offtake. Engagements noted as active or in-progress.
- In progressPuro.EarthRegistry & Methodology
- In progressMangroveDigital MRV
- ActiveTigercatCarbonizer OEM
- In progressCarbonfutureOfftake Platform
Who we are
Operators first.
Data discipline always.
Biochar isn't a software business, but the CORCs it produces live or die on data quality. We built Tarheel Carbon around operators who can run the equipment and instrument the process — because both are non-negotiable.
Jeff White
Operations · Compliance · Offtake
Leads Tarheel Carbon’s commercial, regulatory, and registry workstreams. Owns buyer relationships, Puro.Earth onboarding, and LCA integrity end-to-end.
Jake Palillo
Field Operations · MRV Data Capture
Runs carbonizer operations and owns the data layer feeding dMRV — from feedstock intake through biochar placement. If it moves, it gets logged.
FAQ
Questions,
answered.
Biochar is a solid, carbon-rich material produced by pyrolysis — heating biomass in a low-oxygen environment. The process converts labile plant carbon into stable aromatic structures that resist decomposition for centuries to millennia.
Contact
Work with
Tarheel Carbon.
Whether you're sourcing durable CDR, placing feedstock, or exploring a landowner partnership — tell us what you're building and we'll route it to the right person.
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina