Carbon-aware electricity consumption

Electricity Maps is used widely across the world to enable companies to implement effective decarbonization strategies and drive ongoing sustainability initiatives. 

Our data platform empowers businesses to make sustainable choices about their energy use. Real-time carbon intensity data enables strategic scheduling of energy-intensive activities for times when electricity comes from cleaner sources. 

Our data helps you to
Accurately track your emissions on a global scale and devise decarbonization strategies
Build internal tools to empower your company to make data-driven decisions
Optimize your energy consumption by strategically scheduling energy-intensive tasks for times with cleaner electricity sources
Quantify savings potential of decarbonization strategies - e.g. load shifting, increasing energy efficiency

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Use Cases

Discover How Google is Reaching Its Sustainability Goals With Electricity Maps

Driven by ambitious sustainability goals, Google’s Climate Operations team partnered with Electricity Maps to reduce its carbon footprint and enable other companies to do the same.

Google uses the data for
Load shifting
24/7 carbon-free energy reporting
Partner engagement

Why use Electricity Maps

Broad Data Offering

Electricity Maps offers a broad range of data including carbon intensity and the full power mix of electricity consumed in a region—all available historically, in real-time, and as forecasts.

Global Coverage

We offer data for more than 200 regions and 50+ countries worldwide. We are continuously expanding our geographical coverage, to continue providing the most comprehensive data on the world’s electricity.

Quality and Transparency

With leading domain expertise and a dedicated global community of contributors, we offer the most accurate and highest-quality data. We continually work to improve data quality and ensure maximum transparency in the process through our open-source and scientific approach.

How to use carbon emission data

Our customers use Electricity Maps data across numerous industries and a wide variety of use cases. The data can be integrated with apps, smart devices, software (e.g. Saas products), and carbon accounting processes.

It can be used for analytics provided to your users, shift your consumption to the most optimal time or offer your customers a pioneering carbon accounting platform, Electricity Maps data is able to support your journey towards net zero - and help you differentiate and innovate your products and services.

Explore how our customers use carbon emission data to differentiate and innovate their products and services here!

The data we offer

Using our peer-reviewed flow-tracing methodology, we accurately trace back the true origin of electricity by accounting for imports and exports - read more here.

Carbon intensity
Get access to the carbon intensity (in gCO2eq/kWh) of electricity consumed in a specific region, which takes into account the life-cycle emissions of electricity production.
Power breakdown
Get insights into the production and consumption breakdown of electricity by power source (e.g. gas, solar).
Hourly granularity
We deliver data at an hourly resolution, to reflect the variation in grid emissions throughout the day.

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