Provide real-time, location- and time-specific grid carbon-intensity signals as the conversion factor

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Every emissions estimate multiplies energy by a carbon-intensity factor, but annual national averages miss regional and hourly variation. An API exposing live, historical, and forecast intensity—both average and marginal—per zone and per hour lets any tool convert energy to accur

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Oakland, California, USA

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WattTime (environmental non-profit; executive director Gavin McCormick) · since 2014 · Global

WattTime, founded in 2014 by UC Berkeley researchers and a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute since 2017, provides Marginal Operating Emissions Rate (MOER, in pounds of CO₂ per MWh) via API in real-time, forecast, a…

Smart devices using AER (Automated Emissions Reduction)1,000,000,000+devices

Software carbon reduction from load-shifting (Microsoft / Carbon Aware SDK)~15% reduction

Non-profit; a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute since 2017, funded by grants and contributions · 3 sources

Copenhagen, Denmark

Ongoing

Electricity Maps (founder Olivier Corradi) · Global

Electricity Maps ingests data from TSOs, market operators, and government agencies via an open-source parser system, applies a flow-tracing algorithm to produce consumption-based (rather than production-based) carbon in…

Raised approximately $5.4M in 2024 from Transition and Revent; API is a paid subscription; visualisation app and parsers are open-source · 3 sources

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