Is your goal real-world impact? Then use marginal emissions.

Everyone knows you can’t manage what you don’t measure. Less often pointed out? You can’t manage what you measure incorrectly.  Corporate net-zero targets are at an all-time high, per reporting from The Economist. In fact, fully 75% of the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters have set net-zero by 2050 (or sooner) targets, as of … Continued

You Can’t Avoid Emissions Without Additionality

To beat climate change, humanity needs to massively expand the global supply of renewable electricity to rapidly wean our power grids off existing fossil-fueled power plants. Here at WattTime, our goal is to support and cheer on anyone aiming to build those renewables in ways that drive more impact, faster. We call this “emissionality.” We’re … Continued

INSIGHT BRIEF: Accounting for Impact: Refocusing GHG Protocol Scope 2 methodology on ‘impact accounting’

The GHG Protocol (GHGP) — the world’s leading source of carbon accounting standards — has motivated sweeping clean energy investments and carbon reduction or neutrality goals from corporations and institutions worldwide. But are the emissions reductions currently being counted on paper actually translating into real-world environmental impact? In WattTime’s Accounting for Impact report, we explore … Continued

Harnessing the World’s IoT Devices to Slash Carbon Emissions

WHITE PAPER: Customer Response to Demand Response

Building Owners & Controls Providers: Help Us Clean Up The Great Lakes

In the coming months, WattTime, with the Great Lakes Protection Fund, UC Berkeley, and other partners, will be rolling out a pilot program to test the deployment of enhanced demand response programs throughout the Great Lakes Region. As a part of this pilot, we’re seeking a small group of commercial building owners who want to … Continued

How coronavirus exposed the importance of marginal emissions

Roughly nine months into the global coronavirus pandemic, much has been written about the temporary—and potentially lasting—emissions reductions that have come along with stay-at-home orders and a deep economic recession. DNV GL’s recently released Energy Transitions Outlook 2020 forecasts 75 gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions through 2050, mostly thanks to a big slump in energy … Continued

We can solve the climate crisis by tracing pollution back to its sources. A new coalition will make it possible.

New Report from WattTime and First Solar Explores How Two Key Factors Can Determine the Emissions Impact of Solar Projects

Lifecycle and Avoided Emissions of Solar Technologies Download the PDF

Major California utility tests automated emissions signaling, affirms it can reduce device-level emissions from associated electricity use