PROMETHEUS · EMISSIONS TRADING SIMULATOR
Prometheus is a hands-on emissions trading simulator. Run a firm, weigh abating against buying allowances, and watch a live market discover its price.
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7 India CCTS sectors·cap-and-trade + intensity modes·benchmarking / grandparenting / hybrid·multiplayer·open source
THE MARKET COMES ALIVE
The journey every emissions trading system makes — from obligations on paper to a price discovered in the open. Prometheus simulates each stage.
01 · INDIA'S CCTS
India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme is the simulator's first-class scenario — real sector baselines, emissions intensities, and abatement costs, with benchmarks that tighten annually and settlement computed after each period, the way a rate-based scheme actually works.
02 · COVERED SECTORS
Each obligated sector enters with its own production baseline, growth rate, and marginal abatement cost curve — so a refinery and a textile mill face the same market with very different options.
03 · MARKET ARCHITECTURE
An absolute system fixes the total quantity of allowances and tightens it over time. An intensity-based system sets obligations per unit of output, so the constraint scales with production. Prometheus models both — side by side.
── absolute cap·╌╌ intensity-based
04 · PRICE DISCOVERY
Every order meets a continuous double-auction order book. The clearing price emerges from firms' actual abate-or-buy decisions — supply and demand discovered in real time.
05 · EXTERNAL PRESSURE
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism prices the carbon embedded in imports like cement and aluminium — sectors India's CCTS covers. Lower emissions intensity means a smaller bill at the border, and the pressure shows up in the market.
HOW IT WORKS
Every game runs the same loop a real emissions trading system does — you make the decisions, the market sets the price.
Each firm starts with a compliance obligation — an absolute allowance budget under cap-and-trade, or an emissions-intensity benchmark per unit of output under an intensity-based system.
Read your marginal abatement cost curve and decide which emission cuts are worth funding, working from the cheapest tonnes upward.
Buy or sell allowances with other firms on a live order book whenever the market price diverges from your own cost of abating a tonne.
A continuous double auction turns every firm’s decisions into a clearing price — supply and demand discovered in real time, not assumed.
At period end, settle against your cap: surrender allowances, bank surpluses, or pay penalties — then review profits, emissions, and compliance.
PUBLIC LAUNCH · COMING SOON
This is what a market that found its price looks like. In the simulator, you are one of the firms making it move — abating, trading, and settling against your cap.
Free · open source · runs in the browser
price discovered · continuous double auction