REEF CREDIT SCHEME

Reduce your nitrogen. Get paid for it.

 Green Lightning plasma activated water. Replace urea. Document the reduction. The Reef Credit income is yours. 
 
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 There's a market paying for exactly what Green Lightning does.


The Reef Credit Scheme is a Queensland Government-backed environmental market. It pays farmers for documented reductions in dissolved inorganic nitrogen — DIN — entering the Great Barrier Reef catchment waterways.

One Reef Credit equals one kilogram of DIN prevented from entering the waterway.

Buyers include the Queensland Government, major corporations, and global financial institutions. The Queensland Government alone has committed $10 million to purchasing credits. The market is real, the buyers are funded, and the credits belong to the farmer who generates them.

Green Lightning reduces your urea input.
 
Less urea means less nitrogen in your soil available to leach and run off. That reduction is documentable, verifiable, and yours.

Your delivery dockets are your evidence. Your application records are your asset. The documentation you already generate running your farm is the foundation of a Reef Credit claim.
 
 
 

What does a nitrogen reduction actually look like in dollars? 

A cane operation reducing urea use by 50 tonnes in a season has reduced its nitrogen input by approximately 23 tonnes of N. Published field measurements from Australian sugarcane farms show DIN losses in runoff ranging from 0.1–11% of applied nitrogen.³ Using a midpoint figure of 5%, that 23 tonne nitrogen (50 tonnes of urea) reduction represents approximately 1,150 kg of DIN prevented from entering the waterway. This measn 1,150 Reef Credits, annually, for up to ten years.
 
At current market rates, that is a potential income stream of over $77,000 per year, or $770,000 over a 10-year crediting period.
 
From a reduction you could start generating this season.
 
³ Fraser et al. (2017). Fertiliser management effects on dissolved inorganic nitrogen in runoff from Australian sugarcane farms. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189, 408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-6115-z
 
 

 Does it work? Here's what the independent data says. 

 Precision Technology Institute is a US-based manufacturer-run (AGCO) agricultural research organisation conducting replicated on-farm trials. Their 2024 and 2025 on-farm trials tested Green Lightning PAW as a single 75 L/ha foliar application at V6 — sprayed directly onto the plant, not the soil. Two consecutive years. Two different hybrids. Here's what they found. 

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Source: Precision Technology Institute 2024 & 2025 — Green Lightning PAW Nitrogen Foliar Study. All PTI figures USD per acre as reported. See disclaimer below.

Disclaimer: AUS figures are unit conversions of PTI-reported data only. Yield converted using 1 bu/A = 62.77 kg/ha. Net return gain converted from USD to AUD at 0.63, then per acre to per hectare (× 2.47). Absolute net return figures excluded as they reflect US farming economics not applicable in Australia. GL cost shown in AUS column is a direct currency and unit conversion of the US trial figure ($0.04/gal USD = $0.017/L AUD) for comparison purposes only. The actual operating cost of Green Lightning in Australian conditions is $0.03/L AUD — reflecting local power, water and operational costs. All figures sourced from Precision Technology Institute 2024 and 2025 independent replicated trial reports.

 

 The trial was corn. The biology is the same. 


Corn and sugarcane are both C4 plants. They share near-identical nitrogen uptake pathways, the same response to available inorganic nitrogen at key growth stages, and the same vulnerability to N loss through leaching and volatilisation when conventional urea is applied. Research published in Frontiers in Plant Science confirms that across C4 crops including corn, sorghum and sugarcane, an estimated 50–70% of applied nitrogen fertiliser is lost to the environment through volatilisation, leaching, and runoff — before the crop can use it.¹

The PTI data demonstrates that Green Lightning PAW delivers a measurable, consistent, repeatable yield response. That mechanism does not change at the Queensland border.
 
 ¹ Bollam et al. (2021). Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Sorghum: Exploring Native Variability for Traits Under Variable N-Regimes. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 643192. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.643192 
 
 

 Nature figured this out long before we did. 

During a lightning storm, static electricity restructures nitrogen molecules in the air. That modified, highly reactive nitrogen is carried down in rain. Plants have evolved over millions of years to use it directly — it's one of the most bioavailable forms of N that exists.
 
Green Lightning replicates that process on demand, on your farm.
Air and water pass through a gliding plasma arc inside the machine. Nitrogen from the air is restructured and dissolved into the water as NO₃ (nitrate) — the dominant and most plant-available form — with trace NO₂ (nitrite). The result is plasma activated water: a liquid nitrogen source that plants take up fast, efficiently, and with minimal loss to the environment.
 
You're not buying nitrogen. You're making it. From air and water. At $0.03/L. 
 
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