PTAC Canadian Fuels Compliance Fund (CFCF)

CFCF at a Glance

A Flexible, Credible Compliance Pathway Driving Real Emissions Reductions

The PTAC Canadian Fuels Compliance Fund (CFCF) is a registered Emissions Reduction Funding Program under Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulations. It provides primary liquid fuel suppliers with a cost effective, transparent, and nationally inclusive option to meet up to 10% of their annual carbon intensity reduction obligations, while accelerating the deployment of innovative, low carbon technologies across Canada.

Administered by PTAC, the CFCF enables contributions from primary fuel suppliers to be strategically invested in projects that deliver verifiable and measurable CO₂e emissions reductions. All investments are fully aligned with federal climate objectives and the requirements of the Clean Fuel Regulations.

By directing compliance dollars toward high impact Canadian projects, the CFCF supports both regulatory compliance and long term decarbonization and innovation across the energy sector.

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What Sets the CFCF Apart

Designed for Industry

The CFCF is a compliance fund designed specifically for the Canadian oil and gas sector – balancing regulatory certainty with practical, solutions driven decarbonization that delivers real environmental outcomes.

100% of Contributions Put to Work

Primary suppliers retain full access to their obligatory contributions, enabling all funds to be directed to eligible projects that deliver verifiable CO₂e emissions reductions aligned with Clean Fuel Regulations objectives.

No Fund Matching Required

The CFCF removes financial barriers by eliminating matching fund requirements, accelerating project deployment, reducing risk, and enabling faster commercialization of emissions-reducing technologies.

Capex and Opex Eligibility

Both capital and operating expenditures are eligible for funding, broadening the scope of supported projects

National Reach, Collective Impact

With a pan-Canadian mandate, the CFCF supports projects across the country, ensuring broad participation, regional inclusion, and measurable emissions reduction impact at scale.

Robust Governance

As a neutral facilitator, PTAC ensures transparent and impartial fund operations, reinforced by a defined evaluation framework and rigorous conflict of interest structure.

Built on Trust

For 30 years, PTAC has been Canada’s neutral, non-profit innovation hub for the oil and gas sector, bringing stakeholders together to accelerate solutions that deliver real economic and environmental outcomes.

With a strong track record of transparent fund management and successful technology commercialization, PTAC knows how to move innovation from concept to impact.

Through its trusted network and proven model, PTAC’s CFCF fast tracks the technologies and processes needed to reduce emissions, enabling efficiency, scalability, and long-term sustainability across Canada’s energy sector.

CFCF is structured to turn clean fuel compliance into measurable climate action by investing mandatory contributions directly into high impact Canadian emissions reduction projects.