CARB LCFS Fuel Pathway Portfolio Status Monitor

Watch a book of CARB LCFS fuel pathway IDs (App/Pathway #) and emit typed portfolio events when a pathway appears/drops on the certified table, is marked RETIRED, or has a material CI / classification / FPC change — using the official CARB Current Fuel Pathways spreadsheet.

Not an ENERGY STAR twin. Not an EPA GHGRP twin. Not a national LCFS dump billed as rows.

Who this is for

• LCFS fuel producers / marketers tracking counterparty pathway books
• Pathway consultants and CI desks monitoring certified-table membership and CI flips
• Compliance / credit desks that need Slack/JSON when a watched pathway retires or drops

What you get

Event	Meaning
PATHWAY_CERTIFIED	Watched pathway is CERTIFIED on the published table
PATHWAY_RETIRED	Watched pathway marked RETIRED (or dropped after certified)
APPEARED / DROPPED	Present ↔ absent directory membership signals
CI_CHANGED / CLASS_CHANGED / FPC_CHANGED / FUEL_TYPE_CHANGED	Optional attribute group
RUN_STATUS	Non-billable health row (always on success)

Source

• Official CARB Current Fuel Pathways spreadsheet: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/classic/fuels/lcfs/fuelpathways/current-pathways_all.xlsx
• Page: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/lcfs-pathway-certified-carbon-intensities
• No API key. Live mode downloads the official workbook and diffs only watched pathway IDs — not a national dump bill.
• CARB CDN can be flaky (intermittent 503); the Actor retries with backoff.

Pricing (PPE)

• Charge event: lcfs-pathway-status-event-delivered
• Target: $0.02 / event (~$20 / 1k) — configure on Apify after private push
• RUN_STATUS, baselines, duplicates, filtered rows: $0

Default input (Store-safe)

sourceMode=fixture (default) succeeds with a non-billable RUN_STATUS and does not emit fabricated product events unless emitFixtureDemoEvents=true.

Production: set sourceMode=live and provide your pathway-ID watchlist.

PRODUCTION USE example

{
  "pathwayIds": ["T1N-1734", "A016601", "B005001"],
  "sourceMode": "live",
  "signalGroups": ["directory", "status"],
  "resumeFromCheckpoint": true,
  "maxRunSeconds": 180,
  "maxEvents": 500
}

Limitations (honest)

• Published certified-table membership/fields only — not LRT-CBTS account actions, not Executive Officer dockets beyond the workbook.
• CARB CDN may return HTTP 503; Actor retries/backoff. Workbook refresh lag vs administrative actions is possible.
• Lookup-table rows with App/Pathway # = None are indexed by Current Certified FPC when present.
• First observation per pathway stores baseline only (no charge).

Legal

CARB public LCFS pathway certified carbon intensities table. Cite CARB + retrieval date. Default product fields are public pathway identity (App/Pathway #, FPC, class, CI, fuel type, company/facility).