Please note - funding info is likely already outdated
“Not every megawatt-hour is created equal from a carbon impact perspective,” Reeve said. REsurety’s first data set for the Texas grid, for example, revealed that some wind and solar projects abated two times the amount of carbon per year compared to similar-sized projects elsewhere, depending on their location relative to notoriously congested portions of the state’s western grid.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-markets/a-deeper-dive-into-24-7-carbon-free-energy
Buying clean energy is a means to an end: decarbonization. While many corporations have committed to achieve carbon neutrality or “net-zero” by a certain date, the methods for measuring and maximizing progress have been limited by a lack of data. To date, carbon measurement tools have relied on regional averages, which can materially over- or under-estimate the carbon impact of a specific clean energy project.
The new Locational Marginal Emissions data tool from REsurety addresses this problem.
REsurety’s patent-pending Locational Marginal Emissions technology calculates the carbon emissions at each node on an electric grid with hourly granularity. This helps decision-makers understand how much each specific clean energy procurement, load-siting, or energy storage decision contributes to their decarbonization goals.
https://resurety.com/press-release-resurety-launches-locational-marginal-emissions-data-product-to-empower-customers-to-measure-and-maximize-how-much-carbon-they-cut-through-clean-energy-purchases/
Some ClearTrace clients are tracking their progress toward 24/7 carbon-free energy goals, such as Iron Mountain for its U.S. data centers , ClearTrace investor JP Morgan Chase for its U.K. operations and Brookfield Asset Management for its One Manhattan West office building in New York City.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/corporate-procurement/can-24-7-carbon-free-energy-become-a-global-standard
But without common standards for how to collect, track and verify the data that goes into these hourly measurements, there’s no way for everyday energy buyers and sellers to create the same kind of mass market for 24/7 carbon-free energy credits that now exists for annual renewable energy certificates and guarantees of origin. Large and sophisticated energy buyers such as Google and Microsoft have been forced to crunch the data, sign long-term energy contracts and operate their data centers in a way that optimizes their 24/7 clean energy usage on their own.