The cheapest tonne to offset is the one you never emit. Three systems, one loop of energy, and a count you can put in a report.
A commercial kitchen's carbon comes from the fuel it burns and the electricity it buys. Offsetting starts by shrinking both, then cleaning what is left. Each of our systems takes one part of that job.
A gas burner puts 30 to 40% of its fuel into the pan and the rest into the room. Induction puts 85 to 90% in. The same menu is cooked on roughly half the energy, and the cylinder deliveries stop.
One honest number: on grid electricity alone, an electrified kitchen is roughly level with LPG on carbon, because India's grid still runs largely on coal. The energy saving is real from day one; the carbon saving arrives with the next two systems.
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A kilowatt-peak on an Indian roof generates about 1,400 to 1,600 units a year. Against a grid factor of about 0.7 kg per unit, that is close to a tonne of CO₂ avoided per kWp, every year, for 25 years.
A 100 kWp plant feeding an induction kitchen removes around 100 tonnes a year. That is not an offset you buy; it is one you stop needing.
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Kitchens peak in the evening, after the sun has gone. Storage carries daytime generation into dinner service, so the clean units land where the load is instead of being exported at noon.
It also retires the diesel generator. Every hour a 125 kVA set does not run is about 25 litres of diesel and 65 kg of CO₂ that never happen.
Talk it throughThe same kitchen, burning 40 commercial cylinders a month today, at each stage of the loop. Tonnes of CO₂ a year from cooking, and the fuel bill beside it.
Indicative figures for a kitchen using 40 commercial cylinders (19 kg) a month at ₹1,750 to ₹2,750 each, the February and August 2026 prices (June peaked near ₹3,070). LPG taken at 12.8 kWh and 2.98 kg CO₂ per kg, burners at 35% and induction at 87% efficiency; grid power at ₹9 a unit and 0.716 kg CO₂ a unit (CEA 2023-24 average); own solar at ₹3.5 a unit, units delivered through the battery at ₹8. Your numbers depend on your menu, hours and tariff, which is why we model them before we quote.
A tonne avoided is only worth something if someone else can check it. Every figure we report is metered on site and multiplied by a published factor, so the arithmetic can be repeated by your auditor, your customer or your lender.
The inverter logs generation, the battery logs what it stored and released, a sub-meter on the kitchen logs what the line consumed. Your cylinder invoices from the twelve months before the switch are the baseline.
Grid units carry the CEA emission factor for the year; LPG and diesel carry the IPCC factors. The factors are named on every statement, and updated when the sources update them.
Units generated, units shifted through the battery, diesel hours not run, cylinders not bought, and the tonnes each of those adds up to. One page, the same layout every month.
The statement is written to drop into BRSR value-chain disclosures for listed customers, green-building submissions under IGBC, GRIHA or LEED, customer questionnaires and green-loan covenants.
India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme is being phased in, and renewable and efficiency projects may qualify for registration under a recognised methodology. We supply the metered evidence; the registry decides. We do not sell you a credit we cannot show.
If a month is worse than the model, the statement says so and why. A number you can defend is worth more than a number you like.
Strictly, reduction: these systems cut the emissions your own operation produces. An offset is a credit you buy to cover what remains. Cutting is cheaper than buying, and it shrinks the amount you would ever need to buy. If your target still needs credits, you will need far fewer of them.
On energy, yes, by more than half. On carbon, only if the electricity is clean. India's grid averages about 0.7 kg of CO₂ a unit, so a kitchen moved from LPG to grid induction ends up roughly level, or a little higher, on cooking carbon while paying about half as much for it. The grid factor falls a little every year, and a green tariff or open-access contract changes it immediately. Solar on your own roof changes it most.
Sometimes. Registration depends on the programme, the methodology and the size of the project, and the rules under India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme are still being written for many sectors. What we can promise is the evidence: metered generation, storage and consumption, month by month, in a form a registry or a verifier can work from.
A kitchen burning 40 commercial cylinders a month needs about 47,000 units a year on induction. At 1,500 units per kWp that is a 32 kWp plant, which sits on roughly 250 to 320 square metres of unshaded roof, or the equivalent in a carport. Bigger kitchens scale in proportion.
It is real, and it is repaid. A module repays the carbon of its own manufacture in roughly one to two years of Indian sun and then generates for another twenty-three. A battery repays its embodied carbon through the diesel and coal-fired units it displaces, typically within a few years of daily cycling. We count both when you ask for a life-cycle figure.
Yes, in your favour. If your supply contract carries a lower factor than the grid average, the induction step cuts carbon on its own, and solar on the roof then adds the price protection rather than the carbon. We use the factor in your contract, not the average.
Tell us what you burn today, and we will tell you what it weighs.