Estimate your hourly CFE score

Without renewable procurement in place, your electricity draws entirely from the residual grid mix. In most European markets that means a meaningful share of fossil generation – particularly during peak and evening hours when renewable output is lowest.

Most buyers start here. The first practical step is usually a baseline: mapping your consumption profile, running a competitive tender for EACs or a corporate PPA, and establishing what coverage is achievable in your markets. Annual volume matching isn’t the end goal, but it’s a legitimate starting point – and you can build from there.

Hydro and other baseload-style supplies are hard to score reliably under hourly accounting. Generation output depends on rainfall, reservoir management, and dispatch decisions – none of which a proxy model can replicate accurately.

There’s also an additionality question. Most large hydro assets have been operational for well over 15 years. Under hourly accounting frameworks – including the direction of travel in the GHG Protocol Scope 2 update and RED III – certificates from older assets carry less weight than those from new wind and solar projects.