What We're Reading

Investor group urges GHG Protocol revamp on Scope guidance

• A group of institutional investors has written to the GHG Protocol, urging a formal revision of its Scope 2 guidance, arguing the current annual matching methodology fails to capture the true carbon impact of energy procurement decisions.
• Investor pressure is now aligning with what the technical community has argued for years: annual EACs are not enough, and the standards need to catch up.

Why data centres need renewables to match the clock

• Data centres are under intense scrutiny for their growing energy footprint. Annual EACs let them claim "100% renewable" while drawing fossil-fuelled power most of the day, but hourly matching can close that gap. Some, such as Google, IronMountain, are starting to turn to hourly matching.
• The business case for hourly matching in data centres is maturing fast, and companies that move early will be better positioned as scrutiny of energy claims intensifies.
• Read more here.

From monthly to hourly: Certigy enables hourly granular certificates

• Certigy has upgraded its registry to issue and track energy certificates at hourly granularity, enabling buyers and sellers to match clean energy generation and consumption hour by hour.
• In this article they explain what an hourly certificate is and how they manage it.
• Registry infrastructure is the backbone of certificate markets. European markets now have the infrastructure in place to support granular energy matching at scale, leaving space for adoption to accelerate.

Illinois HB5607 — Hourly clean energy matching legislation — Illinois General Assembly

• Illinois has introduced legislation that would require large electricity consumers to match their consumption with hourly renewable energy certificates, pushing the state toward granular clean energy accounting.
• This marks the start of policy moving in the direction of hourly matching, reflecting what some large energy buyers have already been working on: hourly matching and transparency.

What We're Writing

South Pole uses Granular Energy software for certificate management

• Our latest case study shows how South Pole has integrated our software into its certificate management workflows, enabling more precise and auditable clean energy tracking for its clients.
• South Pole works with hundreds of companies on their climate strategies. Their adoption of more automated certificate management is a strong signal that the industry is modernising.

Granular Energy wins Technology Award at International Energy Week

• We're proud to share that Granular Energy took home the Technology Award at the Energy Institute's International Energy Week.
• Recognition from the Energy Institute reflects the broader industry's acknowledgement that granular energy data and hourly matching are central to credible decarbonisation.

Where to meet us

• Pal Habsburg will be speaking at EnergyNights from Lichtblick, from 17pm on the 15th of April, in Berlin.
• Pal Habsburg will be speaking at Exzellenznetzwerk HKN 2026 organised by GUTcert, on the 16th of April, in Berlin.
• Next-gen Electricity Procurement Event Hosted by Granular Energy and CMS, on April 21st in London: get in touch if interested. Send an email to team@granular-energy.com.