Granular Energy, the software platform for managing scalable, transparent EAC-backed clean energy products, and Xpansiv, the leading infrastructure provider for global energy transition markets, today announced a partnership to unlock registry-integrated, granular energy matching for clean energy suppliers and their customers. This collaboration enables energy suppliers and buyers to match high-integrity, time-stamped energy data with registry-issued energy attribute certificates (EAC) through a single platform.

Powering hourly matching for the market of tomorrow

As demand for hourly carbon-free energy grows, organizations are calling for tools that can match clean electricity consumption to generation with hourly-level transparency. This demand is driven by several factors, including: voluntary protocols such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and SBTi, regulatory actions, such as CBAM, pending data center legislation in US states, and corporate sustainability commitments. Managing this at scale has historically meant fragmented workflows and manual reconciliation, which have been a barrier to adoption for even well-resourced teams.

The new solution makes it possible for clean energy market participants – whether utilities, retail electricity providers, or corporate energy buyers – to match their REC purchases to their hourly load profile at scale, and to optimize the overall procurement operations.

Xpansiv’s North American Renewables Registry (NAR) pioneered hourly REC issuance in 2022, but most registries operate today by issuing certificates based on monthly and annual generation. Granular Energy makes hourly electricity products possible in both cases: either with hourly certificates or with monthly certificates. The latter is supported by hourly generation profiles from metering data, which are automatically reconciled with issued certificate volumes. This approach is certified by non-profit EnergyTag under its granular accounting standards.

This level of transparency allows suppliers to support evolving electricity and emissions accounting mechanisms for their own footprint and for their customers’ sustainability goals.

Scaling operations with integrated registry access

The partnership directly addresses this operational complexity by integratinges the Granular Energy platform and Xpansiv Connect, Xpansiv’s multi-registry integration hub and portfolio management system, enabling customers to manage hourly accounting and EAC portfolios from major certificate registries in one place.

For energy portfolio managers, this eliminates the fragmented, manual workflows that have historically slowed portfolio operations. Registry data flows directly from Xpansiv Connect into the Granular Energy platform, keeping certificate positions up to date, and settlement operations can flow from the platform back to registries through Xpansiv Connect.

"We built Granular Energy to give suppliers the tools to offer every one of their customers the choice to buy clean energy with integrity. That choice, made at scale, is what will drive the energy transition," said Toby Ferenczi, CEO of Granular Energy. "Our partnership with Xpansiv is a huge leap toward making that choice effortless. Together, we're making credible clean energy so easy to sell and buy that no one will have to think twice: it will just be how the market works." 

Xpansiv Connect’s portfolio management system enables users to manage environmental commodity positions across a global network of 17 integrated registries. The system’s open architecture and flexible APIs enable market participants to automate workflows across the system’s network of registries, exchanges, and third-party solutions providers. In 2025, Xpansiv Connect facilitated transfers of more than 700 million RECs globally.

Together, Granular Energy's EAC allocation and management platform and Xpansiv's registry infrastructure form an end-to-end solution for implementing clean energy market products at scale. As the volume and granularity of data required for credible energy accounting continues to grow, the ability to automate matching while anchoring claims to the recognized source of truth of certificate registries will become an essential requirement. This partnership positions energy suppliers and their customers to meet that standard today and to operate with confidence as the market continues to evolve.

“This integrated solution makes granular renewable energy more accessible and easier to manage for interested independent power producers, utilities, traders, brokers, and corporate buyers,” said Russell Karas, Senior Vice President, Strategic Market Solutions at Xpansiv. “Moreover, this collaboration demonstrates how our Xpansiv Connect integration hub empowers partners to bring innovative solutions to new markets quickly and efficiently.”

About Granular Energy

Granular Energy is the platform for energy suppliers, generators, and brokers to manage their clean energy portfolios and provide unprecedented transparency to their customers. Its software automates the matching, transfer, and reporting of energy attribute certificate allocations. Granular Energy works with over 30 utilities, energy suppliers and traders globally, managing over 70 TWh of clean energy, including the world's largest hourly matching programs. For more information, visit granular-energy.com.

About Xpansiv

Xpansiv is the leading infrastructure provider for the energy transition markets.

The company’s comprehensive platform includes registries, online marketplaces, market execution services, wholesale power solutions, and market data for energy and environmental commodity markets. Trusted worldwide, Xpansiv helps market participants capture opportunities and drive environmental impact.

Xpansiv provides solutions that enable stakeholders to deliver transparent, credible, and auditable environmental claims to address the growing global demand for assurance and accountability on climate action and sustainability performance.

Company investors include Blackstone Group, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Aramco Ventures, Macquarie Group Ltd., S&P Global Ventures, Aware Super, BP Ventures, Commonwealth Bank, and the Australian Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

For more information, please visit xpansiv.com.

Media Contacts

Granular Energy: team@granular-energy.com

Xpansiv: pr@xpansiv.com