Insight · 13.11.2025

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

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

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

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.

Insight · 01.09.2025

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

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

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

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.