DNV GL and WattTime Announce Strategic Partnership: Integrating GHG Emissions and Energy Data to Accelerate a Clean Energy Future

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DNV GL and WattTime Announce Strategic Partnership: Integrating GHG Emissions and Energy Data to Accelerate a Clean Energy FutureOakland, Calif.—17 September 2020—Today DNV GL and WattTime jointly announced a strategic partnership to incorporate WattTime’s emissions intelligence into DNV GL’s energy management and digital services expertise for renewables, storage, and efficiency. By combining data on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions with energy efficiency, battery charging and discharging, demand response, and renewables, DNV GL’s utility, regulatory, and renewable and storage project owner clients can make decisions to deliver the greatest clean energy impact. WattTime pioneered Automated Emissions Reduction (AER), a software solution that allows smart devices to sync their flexible electricity use with times of cleaner generation and avoid times of dirtier energy, as well as ‘emissionality,’ which calculates the avoided emissions of different renewable energy projects based on where they are built and what fossil-fueled generation they displace.

“WattTime brings unparalleled expertise to the table when it comes to understanding the GHG implications of electricity supply and demand. This partnership will empower our clients to better evaluate the environmental impacts of their energy use decisions,” explained Richard S. Barnes, Region President, Energy North America at DNV GL.

The partnership comes on the heels of the release earlier this month of DNV GL’s Energy Transition Outlook 2020. The findings in the latest edition of the eagerly anticipated annual analysis and forecast were a call to action on the climate crisis: The necessary technologies for the world to meet Paris Agreement targets exist, if successfully scaled, but current emissions trajectories will fall far short. Under DNV GL’s forecast, the world will exhaust its carbon budget for remaining within a 1.5ºC scenario by later this decade.

“We’re proud to partner with DNV GL to inform their work with clients around the world,” said Gavin McCormick, executive director of WattTime. “Electrification and renewable energy integration are cornerstones of their latest forecast. Our insights will enable their customers with choice in the form of understanding the impacts of different energy decisions, be it energy storage or efficiency upgrades. Down the road, our software can give all manner of smart devices the intelligence to automatically use cleaner energy as power grids around the world see bigger real-time emissions fluctuations during this transition period from fossil-fueled to renewable-powered generation.”

From its inception, WattTime has championed the use of marginal rather than average emissions rates as a more-relevant way to understand, evaluate and take action based on the actual environmental impact of particular energy use. DNV GL will be able to incorporate marginal emissions into a variety of analyses and products, including 8760 analyses of different technologies’ annual energy use.

About DNV GL
DNV GL is the independent expert in risk management and quality assurance, operating in more than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and deep expertise DNV GL advances safety and sustainable performance, sets industry benchmarks, and inspires and invents solutions. Whether assessing a new ship design, optimizing the performance of a wind farm, analyzing sensor data from a gas pipeline or certifying a food company’s supply chain, DNV GL enables its customers and their stakeholders to make critical decisions with confidence.

Driven by its purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, DNV GL helps tackle the challenges and global transformations facing its customers and the world today and is a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful and forward-thinking companies.

DNV GL delivers advisory, certification and testing services to stakeholders in the energy value chain. Our expertise spans energy markets and regulations, onshore and offshore wind and solar power generation, power transmission and distribution grids, energy storage and sustainable energy use. Our experts support customers around the globe in delivering a safe, reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy supply.

Learn more at www.dnvgl.com/power-renewables

Our cutting-edge insights and algorithms, coupled with machine learning, can shift the timing of flexible electricity use to sync with times of cleaner energy and avoid times of dirtier energy. We sell solutions that make it easy for anyone to achieve emissions reductions without compromising cost and user experience.

WattTime was founded by PhD researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2017 became a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute. WattTime is a founding member of Climate TRACE, a global coalition working together to monitor nearly all human-caused GHG emissions worldwide independently and in real time.

CONTACT
Bethany Genier, Regional Communications Manager, Energy North America, DNV GL
+1.339.927.8815 | Bethany.Genier@dnvgl.com

Peter Bronski, Inflection Point Agency for WattTime
+1.201.575.5545 | peterbronski@inflectionpointagency.com

Sapient Industries and WattTime partner to add clean energy insight to commercial plug load management

Philadelphia, Pa. and Oakland, Calif.—19 August 2020—Today Sapient Industries, a Philadelphia-based plug load management software company, and WattTime, an environmental tech nonprofit that created automated emissions reduction (AER) software, jointly announced a partnership to help commercial enterprise electricity customers improve their energy efficiency and reduce their environmental impact by using more clean energy and less dirty, fossil-fueled energy.

Together, Sapient and WattTime provide powerful insight into the energy consumption of a commercial building—and the resulting carbon impact. Phase one of the partnership will focus on automated reporting that integrates their two technologies. The combined reports will show how much and when energy is being used, what sources the energy is coming from, and intelligent insights on how to consume less through behavioral shifting and automated controls.

“The Sapient and WattTime partnership demonstrates the impact that technology can have on sustainability efforts in commercial real estate,” said Sapient CEO Martin Koch. “Until now, there was no technology to address energy consumption from plug load at the commercial level. Through our new partnership with WattTime, not only can we reduce energy consumption, but also help shift to cleaner sources.”

Sapient Industries is a market leader in plug load management technology. Sapient’s SaaS enterprise web application accesses, monitors, and controls every single plugged-in device in a building. Using advanced machine learning algorithms, Sapient is able to deliver significant energy savings to clients while also aiding in asset management and enhancing maintenance strategies.

WattTime invented AER technology, which allows smart devices to automatically opt for clean energy, thus reducing emissions resulting from use of the device. Their technology detects the resulting emissions impact of the power that's feeding into the grid at any given moment. WattTime is helping end users of all kinds easily and automatically adjust power use to times when energy is cleanest.

“At WattTime, we’ve consistently seen that achieving energy and emissions reductions are easier than most companies think, if they can just access good real-time data on when and where the biggest opportunities are. We're excited to be working with Sapient to implement AER in the commercial buildings space," added Gavin McCormick, founder and executive director of WattTime. “As more and more companies set renewable energy and emissions-reduction targets, we’re excited that Sapient’s plug-load intelligence can be a powerful tool to drive down emissions, automatically and effortlessly. ”

Sapient and WattTime have already begun to deploy their technologies together in large-scale infrastructure projects.

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About Sapient Industries
Sapient’s SaaS enterprise web application accesses, monitors, and controls every single plugged-in device in a building. With the largest repository of plug load data, Sapient’s machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics improve asset management, reduce energy consumption, and enhance sustainability initiatives.

Learn more at sapient.industries

About WattTime
WattTime is a nonprofit with a software tech startup DNA, dedicated to giving everyone everywhere the power to choose clean energy. We invented Automated Emissions Reduction (AER), which allows utilities, IoT device and energy storage companies, and any end user to effortlessly reduce emissions from energy, when and where they happen. Our cutting-edge insights and algorithms, coupled with machine learning, can shift the timing of flexible electricity use to sync with times of cleaner energy and avoid times of dirtier energy. We sell solutions that make it easy for anyone to achieve emissions reductions without compromising cost and user experience. WattTime was founded by PhD researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2017 became a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute. WattTime is a founding member of Climate TRACE, a global coalition working together to monitor nearly all human-caused GHG emissions worldwide independently and in real time.

Learn more at watttime.org

CONTACT
Martin Koch, Sapient Industries
martin@sapient.industries

Peter Bronski, Inflection Point Agency for WattTime
+1.201.575.5545 | peterbronski@inflectionpointagency.com

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We're Hiring a Summer Intern: Join WattTime in Making Global Clean Energy Choice a Reality

As the world's workforce navigates the never-before-experienced economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the outlook for those in search of new jobs is discouraging. We are lucky to be one of the organizations out there that is still hiring at full force, and we feel grateful that we have the resources to continue our work without missing a beat.

As an energy and technology nonprofit, we offer a unique opportunity to work for an organization that functions like a startup, but is driven by mission over pure dollar signs. This enables us to optimize for impact—and it’s working. Our Automated Emissions Reduction (AER) technology is getting regulatory adoption in the U.S. in April, we’re launching in more countries through our Google.org-funded satellite work, and we have even more exciting projects going public later this year. All of these things put us closer to our vision of making AER available everywhere for everyone in the next 3–5 years, and we need more folks onboard to get there.

WattTime is hiring for the below areas:

Internship: Software Engineer

Click here to learn more and apply.

New report from WattTime and First Solar explores how two key factors can determine the emissions impact of solar projects

If you’ve ever been on either end of a real estate deal, you’ve probably heard this old saying: “location, location, location.” This potentially overused adage imparts some obvious but useful lessons. For example, if you’re a small business owner investing in a new store, buying in one part of town versus another can be a complete game changer for how much money you’re able to make and how many people your business can reach, even if the service you’re providing in either location is identical.

The same concept holds true for solar projects and potential avoided carbon emissions. In fact, our research has shown geographic location to be the most important factor in determining the emissions impact of a new renewable energy project.

The idea is fairly simple: If you build a new solar farm in a region that’s already saturated with—and maybe even curtailing surplus—solar energy, it won’t reduce grid emissions nearly as much as a solar farm built in a region still mainly reliant on coal-fired electricity. What you displace matters, and our goal is to displace high-emissions electricity generators. At WattTime, we call this concept “emissionality,” and according to our research, using the practice of emissionality when siting new renewables projects can help us avoid up to 380 percent more greenhouse gas emissions.

While location is clearly the heavy hitter of solar project optimization, there are other aspects to factor into the equation. One that we’ve recently taken a closer look at, along with our partners at utility-scale solar company First Solar, is the idea of “embodied emissions.” Different types of solar generation hardware cause different quantities of carbon emissions during production, deployment, and over their lifespans. For example, silicon technologies—especially monocrystalline—result in a higher emissions impact because of more emissions-intensive material and manufacturing requirements. But thin film technologies have a much lower emissions impact throughout their lifespans. By calculating the amount of avoided emissions achieved through strategic siting minus the emissions created through the lifespan of the technology deployed, we’re able to consider the overall net emissions impact of various projects.

A new report from WattTime and First Solar explores the net emissions impact of four common solar PV technologies in three different regions of the world with vastly different grid mixes—France, North Carolina, and California—across a typical 25-year lifespan. Spoiler alert: all the systems we tested had a net emissions reduction impact over a period of 25 years, but some were much better than others. The most dramatic swings in avoided emissions, as expected, were found when solar projects were placed in fossil-fuel-heavy grids compared to cleaner grids. Projects in North Carolina—where the marginal power generator is usually coal or natural gas—displace nearly 15 times more emissions than projects in France, where marginal generators are usually low-carbon.

But when working in relatively clean grids, using solar technologies with lower lifecycle embodied emissions helped make a great thing into an even greater thing. If we look again at France, using cadmium telluride technology instead of monocrystalline amplified net emissions reductions by a factor of nearly three.

As more of our electricity grids make the gradual transition from fossil fuels to renewables, thinking strategically about what technologies we use and where we put them can help us meet carbon reduction goals on or ahead of schedule. For more takeaways, as well as a deep-dive into lifecycle analysis and the concept of displaced emissions, download the full report.

Support our work: WattTime can make global energy choice a reality with your help

As 2019 comes to a close, we want to take a minute to express gratitude for all the partners that supported WattTime in achieving more in one year than even we thought possible. This year we launched a project to monitor carbon emissions from every large power plant in the world. We helped the state of California arrive at new policy measures that will bring emissions from energy storage to zero in an instant—using our technology. We continued to show how marginal emissions data—made actionable through AER—can clean up everything from IoT device usage to EV charging and far beyond. We doubled the size of our team and grew our base of volunteers, bringing in new perspectives and talent to help us create a future where energy choice is simple. WattTime knows firsthand the power of well-placed generosity and the will to make a difference. We’re an organization built by volunteers. From our modest beginnings at a U.C. Berkeley hackathon and all the way through our growth, our work has been driven forward by kindred spirits with a shared vision of what the world can be and the work ethic to move things forward. Every one of us is passionate about what we do and dedicated to scaling our solutions, and our work is infinitely stronger because it’s done in collaboration. We thank you in advance for considering one of the many ways you can further our work. Whether it’s an individual donation, a recommendation for a grant that aligns with our mission, or a connection to an organization that can positively leverage AER, we appreciate your support of WattTime as we work to bring AER to everyone, everywhere. Here’s to a great 2020! Donate and learn more about how to support WattTime here.

Liberty Access Technologies and WattTime partner to bring green charging to EV fleets

Smart charging technology will allow schools and workplaces to charge electric buses, vans, and more with clean energy

Santa Barbara, CA and Oakland, CA, October 22, 2019 — Today electric fleet charging technology company Liberty Access Technologies (Liberty) and environmental tech nonprofit WattTime announced a new clean charging partnership to support schools and workplaces in their transition to all-electric fleets. WattTime’s Automated Emissions Reduction (AER) software will integrate with Liberty’s charging technology to allow buses, vans, and more to automatically charge with clean power. Liberty offers electric vehicle charging systems for the new generation of electric school buses and delivery vans. Their current clients hail from the utility space, government, the private sector, and include names such as San Diego Gas and Electric, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Los Angeles County. Expanding to support school districts’ electrification of transportation is the next step in the company’s growth. Liberty’s core offering is the HYDRA-RX AC Fast Charger Controller, which produces quick charging times at a fraction of the cost of DC Fast Chargers, enabling schools to convert more quickly to electric buses. “As firm believers in a clean mobility future, we feel it’s imperative to support schools and workplaces as they make the switch to all-electric fleets,” said Chris Outwater, CEO of Liberty. “By incorporating WattTime’s AER software with our cost-saving charging technology, we can ensure they benefit from both financial savings and carbon savings. We’re excited to help these groups reach their sustainability goals without sacrificing quality of service.” WattTime’s recently-released EV charging report—How Emissions-Optimized EV Charging Enables Cleaner Electric Vehicles—highlights just how powerful their AER-enabled smart charging can be. In the report, WattTime finds emissions-optimized EV charging can further reduce associated EV-charging emissions nearly 20 percent annually and up to 90 percent on individual days. This is above and beyond standard emissions savings that come from choosing an electric vehicle over a gas-powered alternative. “School buses and corporate fleets represent a perfect opportunity for AER to drive emissions reductions; these vehicles are only used a fraction of the day and can otherwise remain plugged in to optimize charge times for the cleanest electricity,” said Gavin McCormick, founder and executive director of WattTime. “The added bonus is that—instead of exposing schoolchildren or employees to tailpipe emissions—we’re helping make electric vehicles the norm.” Electric mobility is just one of many sectors that technology provider WattTime is involved with. Their solutions make it easy for anyone to choose clean energy and achieve emissions reductions without compromising cost and user experience. WattTime’s AER software enables smart devices of all kinds—from EV chargers to smart thermostats to water heaters—to automatically opt to use clean energy. AER monitors power generation and marginal emissions rates in real-time, then uses that data to optimize energy use based on the environmental impact of consuming electricity at a given moment. Liberty’s announcement to team up with WattTime comes soon after another partnership launched with electric company PG&E. The two will work together to support the electrification and clean energy goals of a school district in Northern California by collaborating on eco-friendly charging options for electric buses. Their pilot will be a test case for PG&E’s new FleetReady program.

About Liberty Access Technologies
LAT specializes in access control systems for electric vehicle charging in the parking industry, fleet EV and multi-tenant dwellings. LAT’s patented Synchronous Code Generation technology enables secure charging without expensive networks, and the Hydra Multi EVSE Control system enables cost effective large scale EV charging solutions for workplace and multi-tenant. Our mission is to use our patented technology to enable our customers to control access, costs and carbon emissions via our "grid-aware" technology. Find out more at www.libertyaccesstechnologies.com or www.linkedin.com/company/liberty-access-technologies

About WattTime
WattTime is a nonprofit with a software tech startup DNA, dedicated to giving everyone everywhere the power to choose clean energy. Our Automated Emissions Reduction (AER) technology can shift the timing of flexible electricity use to sync with times of cleaner energy and avoid times of dirtier energy. We sell solutions that make it easy for anyone to achieve emissions reductions without compromising cost and user experience. WattTime is a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute. For more information, please visit WattTime.org.

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WattTime’s AER shortlisted for 2019 IoT Global Awards

The clean energy choice-enabling software was named a shortlist nominee in the category of ‘Connected Consumer and Smart Home’

OAKLAND, October 9, 2019 — Last month WattTime’s Automated Emissions Reduction (AER) software solution was included on the shortlist of nominees for the 2019 IoT Global Awards. AER was named a finalist for the “Connected Consumer and Smart Home” category.

"AER supercharges a wide range of IoT devices, including those found in smart homes, such as thermostats, refrigerators, and electric vehicles," said Wattime’s founder and executive director Gavin McCormick. "It slashes the environmental impact associated with their energy use, while simultaneously attracting the eco-conscious consumer segment of the market and helping differentiate IoT products in a sea of competitors."

Many of the connected devices found in today's homes are inherently flexible—they don't need to consume energy at a specific time. For example, a refrigerator's compressor can cycle at different times, without ever compromising how cold the temperature stays inside. That's an opportunity for AER to work. The software is able to tell when electricity is cleaner versus dirtier and sends a signal to smart devices so they can time their energy use accordingly. It's like having an automated airfare alert for Expedia in order to get tickets when they're cheapest. Except with AER, devices are told when energy is cleanest and the change is made automatically—this can happen as often as every five minutes.

“This is only the second year of the IoT Global Awards and it is inspiring to see so many new and exciting Internet of Things innovations already in action,” says Jeremy Cowan, Editorial Director of IoT Global Network, the headline sponsor behind the 2019 IoT Global Awards.

“We have been truly impressed by the hard work and ingenuity that has gone into the IoT solutions and applications submitted to us by organisations worldwide. The shortlisted entries met our strict selection criteria and will now be assessed by an unrivalled panel of independent experts.”

The IoT Global Awards, organized by WeKnow Media Ltd, aims to recognize innovation and excellence in the IoT sector, which encompasses smart devices, internet-connected technologies, and related softwares. IoT Global judges hail from companies like Amazon Web Services, Vodafone, IoT Global Network, Navispace, and more.

Also included in the list of finalists for the “Connected Consumer and Smart Home” category are: Amazon Web Services, McAfee, Control4, ON Semiconductor, and others.

The final winners will be announced on October 11th by leading IoT media brands; IoT Now, IoT Global Network, VanillaPlus, IoT Now Transport, IoT Events Hub and IoT White Book. For more information on the IoT global awards, visit www.iotglobalawards.com.

About WattTime

WattTime is a nonprofit with a software tech startup DNA, dedicated to giving everyone everywhere the power to choose clean energy. Our Automated Emissions Reduction (AER) technology can shift the timing of flexible electricity use to sync with times of cleaner energy and avoid times of dirtier energy. We sell solutions that make it easy for anyone to achieve emissions reductions without compromising cost and user experience. WattTime is a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute.

For more information, please visit WattTime.org.

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nicolearnone@inflectionpointagency.com

WattTime chosen as Google AI Impact Grantee

OAKLAND, May 7, 2019 — Google announced today that WattTime is one of 20 organizations that will share $25 million in grants from Google.org, credit and consulting from Google Cloud and coaching by Google’s AI experts as a grantee of the Google AI Impact Challenge. The Google AI Impact Challenge was an open call to nonprofits, social enterprises, and research institutions from around the world to submit their ideas to use AI to help address societal challenges. Over 2600 organizations applied.

WattTime will receive a $1.7 million grant to spearhead a collaboration to monitor and measure greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants from all large power plants worldwide via a global network of satellites. The project will leverage AI technology and the latest image processing algorithms to detect emissions, and those results will then be made available to the public in an effort to hold power plants accountable for illegal polluting and inspire compliance to carbon reduction regulations.

Next week, the WattTime team will travel to San Francisco to dive into execution. For five days, all 20 organizations will join Google AI experts, project managers, and the startup specialists from Google’s Launchpad Accelerator for a program that will last six months, from May to November 2019. Through the Launchpad program, each of the 20 grantees will develop their own OKRs — Objectives and Key Results — and set timelines for project completion. Each organization will be paired with a Google expert who will meet with them regularly for coaching sessions, and will also have access to other Google resources and expert mentorship.

“As a mission-driven tech organization, WattTime is thrilled to be leading this endeavor to harness some of the world’s most advanced solutions and apply them to some of the world’s most urgent challenges,” said Gavin McCormick, executive director of WattTime. “By making public the true emissions levels of the heaviest polluters on the planet and empowering citizens with real data, we hope to turn the tide in environmental regulation and compliance.”

“At Google, we have seen how AI can help us accomplish daily tasks and travels, and we believe in its potential to help address some of the world’s biggest humanitarian challenges,” said Jacquelline Fuller, President of Google.org. “We are excited to support WattTime’s work to use AI to achieve even greater social impact.”

About WattTime

About Google.org

Google.org, Google's philanthropy, supports nonprofits that address humanitarian issues worldwide and apply radical, data-driven innovation to solving the world's biggest challenges.

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WattTime will measure world's power plant emissions from space with support from Google.org

OAKLAND, May 7, 2019 — WattTime today announced a new project, funded by a $1.7 million grant from Google.org, which will use a global network of satellites to measure carbon emissions from all large power plants worldwide and render the information public. WattTime and a group of other collaborating environmental nonprofits chosen through the Google AI Impact Challenge aim to use the resulting data both to hold polluting plants accountable to environmental standards, as well as to enable advanced new emissions reduction technologies.

WattTime previously pioneered solutions such as Automated Emissions Reduction (AER), which leverages past, present, and forecasted power grid emissions data and machine learning algorithms to allow smart devices to adjust the timing of their energy use to sync with clean energy and avoid dirty energy. The organization is spearheading this new endeavor to develop a global continuous emissions monitoring system that is more granular, accurate, and comprehensive than anything that has existed before.

“We received thousands of applications to the Google AI Impact Challenge and are excited to be supporting WattTime with funding and expertise from Google,” said Jacquelline Fuller, president of Google.org. “AI is at a nascent stage when it comes to the value it can have for the social impact sector, and we look forward to seeing the outcomes of this work and considering where there is potential for us to do even more.”

Joining WattTime in the collaboration are nonprofits Carbon Tracker, a financial think tank that analyzes the economic impacts of the energy transition and the first organization to pioneer satellite-based power plant monitoring; and World Resources Institute (WRI), a global research organization working to secure a more sustainable future and who maintains the most comprehensive Global Database of Power Plants in existence today.

The upcoming project will work by leveraging the growing global satellite network to observe power plants from space. AI technology will use the latest image processing algorithms to detect signs of power plant emissions. For maximum accuracy, the project will combine data from a variety of different sensors operating at different wavelengths. AI algorithms will cross-validate multiple indicators of power plant emissions, from thermal infrared indicating heat near smoke stacks and cooling water intake, to visual spectrum recognition that a power plant is emitting smoke.

“Far too many power companies worldwide currently shroud their pollution in secrecy. But through the growing power of AI, our little coalition of nonprofits is about to lift that veil all over the world, all at once,” said Gavin McCormick, executive director of WattTime. “To think that today a little team like ours can use emerging AI remote sensing techniques to hold every powerful polluter worldwide accountable is pretty incredible. But what I really love about better data is how it puts most companies, governments, and environmentalists on the same side. We’ve been thrilled to see how many responsible, forward-thinking groups have started using advanced data to voluntarily slash emissions without anyone making them.”

Fossil fuel emissions are the largest single driver of climate change, and also lead to millions of deaths each year from air pollution exposure. Although a few wealthy countries today currently track emissions from some power plants using expensive continuous emissions monitoring systems, the vast majority of power plants worldwide are not continuously tracked, complicating environmental regulation and making advanced pollution control techniques impossible. With millions of tons of pollution likely going unreported, WattTime and its partners plan to jointly enable a variety of different emissions reductions techniques in a single project, and their satellite-provided 'eyes in the sky’ will ensure that power plant emissions have nowhere to hide.

Accurate global emissions data has the ability to inspire everything from local environmental activism, to new and effective environmental policy, to verification that countries are achieving national-level emissions targets such as Paris Accord commitments. In their ongoing work, WattTime also plans to use the information to further enable and refine software that can give billions of internet-connected devices emissions reduction capabilities.

With work well underway, WattTime has already collected a significant amount of data, confirmed the feasibility of the methodologies, and developed a network of users who could apply the emissions data for greater impact.

“The more transparency we can provide for energy consumers around the world, the more likely we are to solve some of the monumental challenges facing our planet,” said Johannes Friedrich, a senior associate at WRI. “We believe this project will help bring the world one huge step closer to meeting urgent carbon reduction goals, and we’re proud to be a part of it.”

About WattTime

WattTime is a nonprofit with a software tech startup DNA, dedicated to giving everyone everywhere the power to choose clean energy. We invented Automated Emissions Reduction (AER), which allows utilities, IoT device and energy storage companies, and any end user to effortlessly reduce emissions from energy, when and where they happen. Our cutting-edge insights and algorithms, coupled with machine learning, can shift the timing of flexible electricity use to sync with times of cleaner energy and avoid times of dirtier energy. We sell solutions that make it easy for anyone to achieve emissions reductions without compromising cost and user experience. WattTime was founded by PhD researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2017 became a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute. For more information, please visit WattTime.org.

About Carbon Tracker

Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that carries out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on financial markets and the potential investment in high-cost, carbon-intensive fossil fuels. Its team of financial market, energy and legal experts apply groundbreaking research using leading industry databases to map both risk and opportunity for investors on the path to a low-carbon future. It has cemented the terms “carbon bubble”, “unburnable carbon” and “stranded assets” into the financial and environmental lexicon.

About World Resources Institute

WRI is a global research organization that spans more than 60 countries, with offices in Brazil, China, Europe, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the United States and more. Our more than 800 experts and staff work closely with leaders to turn big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being. More information at www.wri.org.

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WattTime and Swytch partner to deliver new standard for enterprise sustainability

AUSTIN, TX / OAKLAND, CA – April 30, 2019 – Swytch, a company reimagining energy data for enterprises, and WattTime, a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Institute and software tech nonprofit focused on giving people and companies the power to choose clean energy, today announced a partnership to drive sustainability by empowering organizations with a higher level of verifiable energy data based on their environmental efforts.

Swytch is leveraging WattTime’s API platform to feed real-time and historical marginal emissions data into its blockchain-based Oracle. Swytch thus gives organizations a more-complete and more-accurate view of their energy generation, energy use, and associated carbon offset information.

The Swytch platform connects to a company’s renewable energy devices and provides an in-depth look into their energy generation and associated carbon offset. This is then delivered in a digital data asset to the owner, which can be used for tracking, reporting and decision-making purposes. This allows organizations to improve their business and sustainability practices with actionable insights from their own impact calculations.

“With WattTime’s software, mission-driven organizations can access and implement emissions data that informs strategic energy decisions, from renewable energy purchases to the smart IoT devices controlling flexible energy demand,” said Gavin McCormick, WattTime co-founder and executive director. “Corporate sustainability efforts are evolving, so we’re proud to partner with Swytch to make those processes both easier and more effective. That’s a powerful combination.”

Swytch sets a standard for trust so parties can track and understand the sources and uses of renewable energy production based on IoT data, which enables organizations to streamline reporting and turns historical areas of cost into future centers of profit.

"Two of the most important things we provide for our clients are accountability and transparency,” said Evan Caron, co-founder and managing director of Swytch. “WattTime's marginal emissions data provides our customers real-time insight into their carbon offsets, empowering them to quickly make the right decisions to prioritize clean energy and invest in a cleaner future.”

About WattTime

About Swytch

Swytch is revolutionizing the way energy assets are valued helping lead the way for a cleaner future. Founded by a team of energy and IoT experts, Swytch’s enterprise data service captures and creates value from energy information flows and events. Swytch sets a standard for trust so parties can track and understand the sources and uses of renewable energy production based on IoT data, which enables businesses to streamline reporting and turns historical areas of cost into future centers of profit. For more information, visit Swytch.io or follow Swytch on Telegram, Medium and Twitter.

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