Hourly energy matching
Helping you calculate carbon with confidence.
What is hourly matching?
Hourly Matching shows exactly when your electricity use aligns with renewable generation. As the first UK supplier to put this level of insight directly in customers’ hands, Good Energy provides live, hour-by-hour visibility into how your consumption is being matched with renewable power.
Through our partnership with Granular Energy, our business customers can track real renewable performance and strengthen carbon reporting – backed by our industry-leading 90% hourly matching performance*.
Why does hourly matching matter?
Many suppliers rely on the purchase of certificates called REGOs. These certificates allow them to match customer demand with renewable generation over the course of year, regardless of what is actually powering homes and businesses at any given moment. This approach means fossil-fuel electricity can still be marketed as “renewable”.
By comparison, Good Energy strives to match customer electricity usage with genuine, PPA backed renewable generation in real time, measured hour by hour. This delivers far greater transparency in reporting and provides tangible evidence of a truly renewable supply.
What are the benefits of hourly matching?
Proven renewable supply: Make sure your electricity is genuinely renewable by seeing how it’s generated with our online platform 24/7.
Calculate carbon use with confidence: Through our partnership with Granular Energy, you’ll receive clear data on your hourly energy usage for multiple sites and the percentage matched directly to our renewable generators.
Make informed decisions: Spot the best times to generate, store or export your own renewable power.
Lead in sustainability: Meet your ESG goals and showcase your commitment to decarbonising energy.
Good Energy ranked #1 for transparency
Good Energy is independently verified, ranking #1 on the Matched Clean Power Index – the first independent review of how UK energy suppliers are matching their customers’ usage with renewable generation every half-hour.
With several suppliers scoring as low as 0% renewable, the results underline why time-matched evidence needs to be established as the industry standard – ensuring people are sold the reality of renewable energy, not just the idea of it.
“We’re always trying to connect people with where their products are coming from. In the same way, to actually understand who’s helping to produce your energy is powerful.” Pete Williams, Soil Association
Earn more with Hourly Matching Credit
Hourly Matching Credit is a free, opt-in scheme from Good Energy that helps businesses and generators save more while making the grid greener.
When your usage matches up with generation, you’ll benefit from reduced third party charges.
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* Good Energy sources power directly from over 3,000 independent renewable generators across Britain. With our own in-house trading desk, we strive to create a fuel mix that matches how our customers are actually using electricity – by contracting directly with a wide variety of generators. Based on our portfolio performance over April 2023-March 2024, our trading team achieved 90% hourly alignment between renewable generation and customer demand.
We’re the number 1 supplier on the Matched Clean Power Index – an independent organisation using public data to show how suppliers are matching energy demand with renewables. The data shows that we match 88% of our customer demand with renewable electricity generated in the same half-hour, far outperforming other suppliers.
The discrepancy between this score (88%) and our own score (90%) is that ours is calculated using hourly generation and demand data. The Matched Clean Power Index, however, derives its result from monthly REGO volumes that are modelled into half-hourly profiles using assumptions and national weather data. Plus, not all of our small scale, independent generators are REGO accredited so weren’t included in the Matched dataset.