Delivering fast, cost-effective carbon procurement for Astomos Energy
Abatable partnered with Astomos Energy to run a targeted procurement that secured A-rated carbon credits well below budget and at speed, supporting the carbon credit offering Astomos bundles with its products.
Overview
Astomos Energy Corporation
Energy
Japan
End-to-end carbon procurement through a single targeted RFP run by Abatable
Cost-effective, high-integrity sourcing to support a bundled carbon credit product, with further procurements planned across the year
Challenge
Astomos Energy is a large Japanese energy importer that bundles carbon credits with one of its energy products. To complement its in-house procurement of carbon credits, it approached Abatable to source and purchase the most cost-effective, high-quality credits on the market, with minimal contracting and onboarding complexity.
key results
Cost saving on the Astomos Energy budgeted per-tonne cost
Business days from proposal to a competitive field of qualified offers
Weeks to complete the process, from launch through project selection, price negotiation and contracting
Challenge
Astomos Energy was looking for cost-effective, high-quality carbon credits through a process that was fast, repeatable and dependable.
Astomos Energy imports and sells liquid petroleum gas (LPG) to Japanese consumers, bundling carbon credits in with the sale of the LPG for its customers. In order to secure the credits for several procurements across 2026, Astomos Energy needed a process that was fast, repeatable, and dependable.
Cost discipline mattered. Astomos wanted credits that met a high-quality bar at a competitive price, sourced quickly and without the administrative overhead of onboarding and contracting with several new counterparties. The task was to combine genuine cost efficiency with high integrity, and do it at speed, and in a way that enables them to spread multiple procurements throughout the year.
Solution
A targeted RFP to reach the market and source high-quality credits through a competitive process.
Abatable ran a single, targeted carbon credit RFP on Astomos' behalf, using its platform and supplier network to reach the market quickly and competitively.
Through the process Abatable:
- Sourced credits with a strong, competitive response from Abatable's network, giving Astomos a wide field of qualified, independently rated offers to choose from within five business days.
- Evaluated offers against independent ratings and Abatable's due diligence framework, so Astomos could compare on quality as well as price.
- Purchased credits by acting as principal in the transaction. Astomos dealt with a single counterparty, which removed the need to onboard new suppliers and kept contracting and onboarding simple.
The competitive process, from launch through project selection and price negotiation, completed in under two weeks. Astomos selected an A-rated landfill gas project that captures and destroys methane. Because methane is a superpollutant – a short-lived but highly potent greenhouse gas – destroying it delivers a strong near-term climate benefit.
Results
- Cost-effective outcome – A competitive, transparent RFP surfaced fair market pricing, with the selected credits coming in at around 40% below Astomos' budgeted per-tonne cost.
- High integrity – An A-rated project selected, independently recognised for its quality.
- Real climate impact – Support for the destruction of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases.
- Streamlined process – With Abatable as principal, Astomos avoided onboarding new counterparties and kept contracting and administration light.
- A repeatable model – A fast, efficient process Astomos can reuse for its further procurements across the year.
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Completion in a matter of weeks
'Working with Abatable, we ran a competitive procurement and went from launch to a completed purchase in a matter of weeks. We secured high-quality, independently rated credits at a cost comfortably below our budget, and because Abatable acted as a single counterparty, the contracting and onboarding were refreshingly simple. It gave us the speed, quality, and ease we were looking for, and a model we're glad to build on for our future procurements.'
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