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This figure shows the percent reduction in the carbon intensity (CI) of California’s transportation fuel pool. The LCFS target is to achieve a 20% reduction by 2030 from a 2010 baseline by setting a declining annual target, or compliance standard. The compliance standard was frozen at 1% reduction from 2013-2015 due to legal challenges. Years in which more alternative fuels were brought to market (green line) than needed to meet the compliance standard (black line) result in banked credits. Banked credits can be used in future years to meet the standard, such as in 2020. The program will continue post 2030 at a 20% reduction.
Regulated entities have consistently over-complied with the standard, generating a bank of credits which can be sold or retired to meet compliance obligations at any time. At the end of Q4 2022, the bank stood at nearly 15.1 million credits. No 2021 Low Complexity/Low Energy Use Refining credits have been included as of this publication. As the standard becomes more stringent in order to reach the targeted reductions by 2030, regulated entities can rely on these banked credits to ease compliance.
![This chart tracks credit prices and transaction volumes over time. Monthly average credit prices reported by Argus Media and OPIS [used with permission] are shown along with CARB monthly average price.](http://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/inline-images/LCFS_Figure04_25.jpg)
Figure 5a
Each sphere represents a certified fuel pathway; the size of the sphere represents the reported volume of the fuel in 2022, while its position on the horizontal axis indicates the carbon intensity of that fuel.
The alternative fuel’s CI value is divided by its Energy Economy Ratio (EER) in order to obtain the EER-adjusted CI value, representing the emissions which occur from the alternative fuel per MJ of conventional fuel displaced.
Figure 5b
Each sphere represents a certified fuel pathway; the size of the sphere represents the reported volume of the fuel in 2022, while its position on the horizontal axis indicates the carbon intensity of that fuel.
The alternative fuel’s CI value is divided by its Energy Economy Ratio (EER) in order to obtain the EER-adjusted CI value, representing the emissions which occur from the alternative fuel per MJ of conventional fuel displaced.

Figure 9
*This represents the percent of the total available credits (that could be used in the future to demonstrate compliance) that is held by a regulated party. Each position is calculated by looking at the total number of credits currently banked across all parties and dividing each party’s current credit bank by the total credit bank.

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Figure 10a
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