Carbon Calculator for Breweries

How Much Will Carbon Pricing Cost?

One of the biggest questions for small businesses is how much carbon pricing will cost their business and their customers. A variety of factors make it difficult to determine exact amounts of potential costs. However, this carbon offset pricing calculator developed by Appalachian Offsets can give brewers an estimate of future costs with a $20/ton price on carbon. Brewers can also expect to pass along these minimal rise in costs as well as offset these potential costs with revenue increases from a national dividend that will help to grow certain industries (i.e. beverage industry) as illustrated in this REMI report’s graph: GDP by Manufacturing Industry. There is a cost of action and a cost of inaction!

If you would like to calculate the rise in cost to your consumers please checkout this spreadsheet documenting the cost impact on a 6-pack of beer. It shows a small increase of 3 cents per 6-pack in year 1 and 22 cents per 6-pack in year 10 — again a very small rise in cost to achieve an expected 40% decrease in national emissions!

 

You can learn more about this win-win for brewers by visiting the Business Climate Leaders Brewers’ Declaration that supports the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA). The EICDA legislation starts out at $15/ton the first year and increases $10/ton every year thereafter, so the calculator below will calculate the average cost of the first two years if this carbon fee & dividend legislation is passed. START by filling in the number of barrels produced under the “Breweries” section below as well as the energy, transportation, food and waste sections as applicable. Then if you would like to support this legislation, go ahead and sign the Brewers’ Declaration listed below.

This calculator allows you to estimate a portion or all of the greenhouse gas emissions you would like to offset from any of the sources below. We recommend offsetting a particular emissions source or your emissions total from all sources on an annual basis. You can also do so for a single event or multiple years. If you would like to create a monthly payment plan for your carbon offsets please send a message through the contact form.

Enter the information requested below, filling out only the applicable fields, and click the "calculate" button for the total offset cost. Thank you!

BUILDING ENERGY USE

Total GHGS (Metric tons CO2e)
Cost of offsets
Electricity
Enter your yearly electricity usage in kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year
0.00
$0.00
Natural Gas
Enter your yearly natural gas usage in therms (ccf) per year
0.00
$0.00
Propane
Enter your annual propane use in gallons
0.00
$0.00
Wood Burning
Enter your yearly estimated cords of wood burned
0.00
$0.00
OR
Monthly Utility Bill
Estimate your total monthly utiltily bill in dollars
0.00
$0.00

DRIVING

Gasoline
Enter your yearly miles driven
Enter estimated miles per gallon or enter 23.4 for passenger car average, 17.2 for light duty vehicles or 7.4 for medium to heavy duty trucks
0.00
$0.00
Diesel
Enter your yearly miles driven
Enter estimated miles per gallon or enter 25.9 for passenger car average, 17.2 for light duty vehicles and 9.9 for medium to heavy duty trucks
0.00
$0.00

AIR TRAVEL

Short Haul Flights
Enter number of roundtrip flights taken that were under 3 hours
0.00
$0.00
Medium Haul Flights
Enter number of roundtrip flights taken between 3 and 6.5 hours
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$0.00
Long Haul Flights
Enter number of roundtrip flights taken that were over 6 hours
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$0.00

FOOD CONSUMPTION

Enter the number of meals served annually by a restaurant establishment OR purchased by business for employees, meetings, etc. Do not include meals brought by employees from home
Percent of all meals that are vegetarian
0.00
$0.00

WASTE

Landfill trash
Enter the number of dumpsters of trash your business disposes of that is hauled to the landfill per month (1 dumpster is usually 20 cubic yards; if you share a dumpster, estimate only your portion, e.g., fractional entries like 0.25 or 0.5 are acceptable.)
0.00
$0.00
Green waste
Enter the number of dumpsters of green waste your business disposes of that is hauled to a composting facility each month; if you share a dumpster, estimate only your portion, e.g., fractional entries of 0.25 or 0.5 are acceptable.)
0.00
$0.00
OR
Landfill trash
Enter the number of 3 cubic yard bins of trash your business disposes of that is hauled to the landfill each month
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$0.00
Green waste
Enter the number of 3 cubic yard bins of green waste your business disposes of that is hauled to a composting facility each month.
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$0.00

EVENTS

Enter the number of participants
Enter the number of days
Participant transportation
Enter the % driving to the event
Estimate average distance driven
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$0.00
Enter the % flying to the event
Estimate average distance flown
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$0.00
Enter the % using rail
Estimate average distance by rail
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$0.00
Enter % using public transit
Estimate average distance by public transit
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$0.00
Enter % using public bike or walking
Estimate average distance by bike/walk
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$0.00
Total transportation
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$0.00
Participant meal consumption
Average # of meals consumed per day per participant
Percent of meals served that are vegetarian
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$0.00
Waste generated
Enter number of 20 yard dumpsters of waste generated by event (fractional entries, e.g., 0.1 or 0.25, are acceptable)
0.00
$0.00

BREWERIES

Enter the number of barrels of beer produced annually by your brewery. This section accounts for brewery materials and packaging. Breweries should also complete the energy, transportation, food and waste sections as applicable.
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$0.00

OR

if you have already calculated the total tons of GHGs you want to offset, just enter that value here:
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$0.00

Total:

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$0.00

The average American's annual carbon footprint is 20 MT CO2e (Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

BCL is grateful to Appalachian Offsets who developed this calculator and has allowed us to use it for our purposes. They are based in Western North Carolina and work to provide a local solution to global pollution that funds clean energy projects for local WNC schools and nonprofits. If you would like to contribute to their cause by paying for carbon offsets you can enter in this same data on their Business Carbon Offset Calculator page.

If you would like to support climate action and carbon pricing efforts please join your fellow brewers and maltsters by endorsing this federal bipartisan climate solution:
 

Sign Brewers’ Declaration »   Cost Impact on a 6-pack »

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