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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.
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Insight · 01.09.2025
The Matched Methodology: calculating temporal matching of renewables in the UK electricity market
Matched, a new independent, open-source initiative, founded by Joe Kwiatkowski, has published methodology for calculating temporal matching between renewable energy supply and consumption in the UK electricity market. How do the ‘100% renewable’ tariffs backed by REGOs in the UK actually line up with the consumption they cover? Granular Energy's Sebastian Porter, Charles Checkley and Benedict Shegog were invited to review the methodology alongside other industry experts. This blog sets out the Matched methodology principles.
Insight · 20.08.2025
The movements driving 24/7 carbon-free energy
From global compacts to granular certificates, the ecosystem shaping hourly carbon-free electricity is evolving fast. Granular Energy's Maartje van der Molen writes about the initiatives and standards that are critical to the evolution of hourly matching.
Insight · 15.07.2025
Introducing Shaped EACs: a new tradeable instrument for deep decarbonisation
This week, we have announced a first-of-a-kind clean energy transaction. This post provides some further background behind our announcement on Shaped EACs.
Insight · 19.06.2025
New rules for a new era: what you need to know about the 24/7 Carbon-Free Coalition guidelines
The Climate Group released new technical guidelines for the 24/7 Carbon-Free Coalition, a global initiative led by major energy buyers to accelerate hourly matching and grid decarbonisation. As a contributing member of the working group, Granular Energy unpacks the key principles behind this new standard in energy procurement and what it means for buyers, suppliers, and the market at large.
Insight · 11.06.2025
The direction of travel – reading between the lines of the GHG Protocol update
In this post, Benedict Shegog explores the latest developments in the GHG Protocol revision process and what they signal for the future of carbon accounting. Drawing on publicly available information from the GHG Protocol’s Scope 2 working group, he outlines the shift toward real-time, location-specific reporting—and what it means for the clean energy ecosystem.
Insight · 27.05.2025
Storage for everyone: how to scale hourly matching scores
By aiming to increase hourly matching scores, energy suppliers and consumers create new price signals for storage operators, accelerating the rollout of new storage assets. Today, we're publishing our methodology to use storage for hourly matching claims.
Insight · 19.05.2025
Navigating a shifting landscape: key insights from our clean energy procurement workshop
On May 12th, we co-hosted an event alongside CMS to discuss shifting trends in clean energy procurement. We welcomed industry experts from energy supply, energy buyers and other market participants to share their expertise and thoughts. Read the event key takeaways.
Insight · 08.05.2025
A guide to navigating the emerging hourly matching standards
Our co-founder and CEO, Toby Ferenczi, has written a piece sharing his personal journey, the origins of EnergyTag, and how it led to the creation of Granular Energy to work on improving the EAC system. He also offers insight into our distinctive approach to the various hourly matching standards currently emerging across the industry.