Canary Media: A deeper dive into 24/7 carbon-free energy
Tech giants and startups are chasing more precise data to make the grid cleaner by the hour — and asking governments and regulators to catch up.
Canary Media’s Down to the Wire column tackles the more complicated challenges of decarbonizing our energy systems.
Last week, the EnergyTag initiative released standards designed to lay the groundwork for a global system that tracks and trades clean energy on an hour-by-hour basis — in other words, a standard for 24/7 carbon-free energy.
For the growing number of corporate energy buyers, clean-energy producers and energy-trading entities already shifting from annual to hourly clean-energy accounting, that kind of standard can’t come too soon.
Corporate 24/7 clean-energy pioneers such as Google and Microsoft have already signed round-the-clock clean power contracts with power providers including AES and Engie. They’re also tracking clean energy from generation to consumption with European grid operators including Denmark’s Energinet.
Read what Edison Energy and REsurety have to say in the rest of the article at Canary Media