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The future of energy procurement is here: meet some of our customers
The way clean energy is bought and sold is changing. Energy buyers want more transparency and traceability, and sometimes already require hourly matching. Granular Energy empowers market participants to manage, track and trade clean energy. See how some of our customers are pioneering the future of energy procurement.
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Insight · 23.01.2026
Webinar: The State of Hourly Matching
Hourly matching is quickly moving from a pioneering idea to a widely available energy product, changing what credible renewable energy procurement looks like.
Insight · 08.01.2026
Study highlights rapid growth of new category of energy tariffs offering more credible renewable energy procurement
In the past 12 months, the number of ‘hourly matching tariffs’ - which provide businesses with traceable clean energy – has seen a four-fold increase and are now available in many countries. Today we launch the State of Hourly Matching report, alongside the list of suppliers offering or about to offer such tariffs.
Insight · 24.11.2025
How and why are businesses getting started with hourly matching?
This blog post is the last part of our Hourly Matching in Practice series, which aims to help newcomers to this topic quickly get up to speed ahead of the changes to the GHG Protocol’s scope 2 emissions guidance. Throughout this series, we will help you understand the practicalities of hourly matching, and how your business can get started with it. Today, we explain how to get started as a business, and we share the different motivations of energy buyers across industries.
Insight · 13.11.2025
Che cos’è l’Hourly Matching e cosa significa per la tua azienda?
Questo articolo fa parte della nostra serie “Hourly Matching in Practice”, pensata per aiutare chi si avvicina per la prima volta a questo tema a comprenderlo rapidamente, in vista delle prossime modifiche alle linee guida del GHG Protocol relative alle emissioni di Scope 2. Nel corso di questa serie, ti aiuteremo a capire in modo pratico come funziona l’hourly matching e come la tua azienda può iniziare a implementarlo. Oggi, il nostro collega Sebastian Porter apre la serie con un’introduzione su cosa sia l’hourly matching e quale impatto possa avere sulla tua attività.
Insight · 29.10.2025
How can you do hourly matching with monthly certificates?
This blog post is part of our Hourly Matching in Practice series, which aims to help newcomers to this topic quickly get up to speed ahead of the changes to the GHG Protocol’s scope 2 emissions guidance. Throughout this series, we will help you understand the practicalities of hourly matching, and how your business can get started with it. Today, our colleague Sebastian Porter explains more about how hourly matching can work without hourly certificates.
Insight · 09.10.2025
What is a high matching score?
So, you’ve got your hourly matching score… but what does that number actually mean? In the second part of our mini-series, Sebastian Porter unpacks what matching scores are realistic based on granularity, number of technologies and types of assets. Spoiler: diversity is your friend.
Insight · 24.09.2025
What is hourly matching and what does it mean for your business?
This blog post is part of our Hourly Matching in Practice series, which aims to help newcomers to this topic quickly get up to speed ahead of the changes to the GHG Protocol’s scope 2 emissions guidance. Throughout this series, we will help you understand the practicalities of hourly matching, and how your business can get started with it. Today, our colleague Sebastian Porter kicks off with an introduction on what hourly matching is and what it means for your business.