Renewable-electricity coverage
Verified facility-level coverage for the reporting period.
Score the outcome,
not the headline.
Two facilities can both claim 100% renewable electricity and produce different environmental outcomes. LighterGrid makes those differences visible.
ENERGY & CARBON PILLAR35 points
We examine how much operational electricity is covered, where and when renewable power is generated, whether procurement helps add new capacity, how the facility interacts with its grid, and what powers backup systems. Targets are separated from operating results.
Seven criteria. Evidence underneath.
Water, cooling, recovered heat, and embodied carbon remain separate so one action cannot earn credit twice.
Additionality and procurement quality
Procurement demonstrably supports new clean generation.
Temporal and geographic matching
Clean generation follows demand in the relevant hours and grid region.
Energy efficiency and utilization
Recent measured efficiency is paired with productive utilization and absolute demand.
Grid flexibility and contribution
Verified storage, demand response, carbon-aware shifting, or useful exports.
Backup and firm power
Backup operation and fuel use are disclosed and materially low carbon.
Disclosure and assurance
Current facility-level boundaries, volumes, methods, and independent assurance.
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER
A claim is only as strong as its proof.
A secondary article can identify a candidate; it cannot establish a publishable LighterGrid score by itself.
What we will not conflate.
Annual certificates do not prove clean power was available when electricity was consumed.
Backup generation and firming resources remain visible.
Commitments earn operating credit only after delivery and verification.
PUE is considered with utilization and absolute electricity demand.
LIGHTERGRID INSIGHT
Read the analysis →Beyond “100% renewable”
See why procurement quality, matching, grid context, and evidence can separate two facilities making the same headline claim.