In the hustle and bustle of a startup, we typically look ahead rather than behind. Chasing what’s next makes it hard to reflect on our achievements. As 2025 comes to a close, I’m taking time to think about where we started January 2025, and where we have gotten to. This year has been one of meaningful growth and learning for Granular Energy, shaped by our expanding product, a widening global footprint, new partnerships, and continuously strengthening of our team.

A broader product for the full EAC lifecycle

At the start of the year, our platform was primarily known for helping retailers and suppliers manage their Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs)-based products and portfolios on an annual and hourly basis, helping them cancel, comply and report on EACs to their customers.

Today, thanks to the feedback from our users, our product supports almost every stage of the EAC lifecycle - beyond the retail-only use case we started the year on. This year we launched our risk and forward portfolio management features, giving market players a way to track forward buy/sell deals and volumes, analyse forecasted imbalances and exposure, precisely monitor EAC delivery, reconcile EACs to their deal positions, and run EAC registry operations in a seamless way. This has helped teams operate with greater automation and confidence in the market, all while replacing previously manual internal tools that were limiting scalability. Our product becomes a complement or replacement to an ETRM, providing EAC-specific features that ETRMs today don’t offer.

This means Granular Energy now supports EAC operations across generation, trading, retail and procurement, bringing more transparency and efficiency to the entire ecosystem.

Welcoming new clients across markets

We’re powering more players every year, and are thankful to the organisations that put their trust in us this year. In 2025 we publicly announced partnerships with PPC, Eneco, Brook Green Supply, Ecotricity, and JERA Cross in Japan, among others. Each collaboration helps accelerate the shift to transparent EAC management, and brings us a step closer to granular clean energy sourcing.

A special highlight to me is A2A’s video showcasing their Green Energy Match product, the first hourly matching tariff in Italy that we enable. I love seeing how our clients communicate to energy buyers what hourly matching is, and this video puts it in simple terms with stunning clean power plant imagery.

Expanding globally: Konnichiwa Japan

Another milestone this year was signing our first client in Japan, and welcoming Tokyo-based Nana Yamaguchi to our team. Establishing a presence in the country enables us to support a fast-developing market with real NFC (the local name for EACs) management needs closely, and it marks a meaningful step in our broader international expansion. We’re glad to be working with Jera Cross, a pioneering supplier and the first in Japan to offer hourly matching at scale, guiding us as we learn and adapt our work to the Japanese market.

GHG Protocol shaping the future

A review of the year would be incomplete without a mention of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. In October, the GHG Protocol Technical Working Group and ISB published a consultation with draft guidance for the Scope 2 revamp that has been ongoing for the past three years. Two key developments appear: a requirement for hourly energy reporting and deliverability. This means to account for Scope 2 emissions, energy buyers will need to demonstrate they bought renewables within a certain restricted geographical area (the boundaries still TBD) and show how that production aligns with their consumption on an hourly basis. A consultation is open until January 31st for the public to share thoughts and feedback on the draft.

We’re grateful that our work sits at the centre of this transition, and is helping the market be future proof. Our platform already delivers the hourly insights suppliers and buyers need, and helps turn that data into actionable decisions. It’s encouraging to see the market moving towards the transparency that has guided our mission from the start.

A year of team travel and connection

2025 also brought us together as a team, small in numbers but big in ambition and heart. Some of my favourite memories include:

• Our now classic company pub quiz, that include questions on team pets, IEA data, client trivia.
• Hosting our biggest client event yet at the CMS office in London, welcoming more than 80 attendees and finishing with a karaoke night (stay tuned for our 2026 event!)
• An additional two karaoke nights, each more enthusiastic than the last
• A now fan favourite Sinterklass poem night, where each team member wrote a roast/poem to a colleague

These moments are a good reminder of how fortunate I am to work with such a committed and passionate team. I’m in a role where I get to support people as they grow and challenge themselves. I leaned into that even more this year, and it’s been one of the most rewarding parts of my work.

Looking ahead to 2026

We’re heading into 2026 optimistic. With deeper product capabilities on the horizon, new markets to support, and more organisations asking for finer and detailed renewable sourcing reporting, the coming year holds exciting prospects.

To our clients, partners, and to the team: thank you for making 2025 what it has been. Here’s to an even brighter 2026!