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Offer users a way for tangible carbon reduction and strengthen your sustainable brand positioning.
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With Electricity Maps, Samsung SmartThings is revolutionizing the smart home industry with carbon-intelligence features, helping millions of homeowners to be more carbon-aware and lower their emissions.
Monta empowers users and businesses to make informed decisions about the use of more sustainable energy sources for electric vehicle operations - having enabled over 70k greener charges already.
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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.
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The Electricity Maps API can greatly enhance demand response programs while helping you attract new users to the program.
It helps you optimize the scheduled use of appliances outside of demand-response periods to further decrease CO₂ emissions for your customers. It also allows you to report on CO₂ emissions saved due to your demand-response efforts, providing valuable data for both utilities and end users. Additionally, it can increase cost savings for users by optimizing the use of renewable energy, ensuring that both environmental and economic benefits are maximized within the program.
By using our API, you ensure that your feature delivers genuine environmental impact, reducing tangible carbon emission. This allows you to launch and promote your new sustainability features, without risking backlash for unverified sustainability claims.
Our technology, integrated into billions of devices worldwide — including Samsung home appliances, Google data centers, and Monta-controlled charge points — has a proven track record of reducing emissions for our customers and their end-users. Our service is trusted by millions, battle-tested in our public app, and scrutinized by leading scientific experts. We offer the highest-quality data through an open-source and scientific approach, guaranteeing transparency and accuracy. Learn more about our methodology here.
The potential for CO₂ reduction using our API is considerable, but varies depending on the specific application.
Optimization of electric vehicle charges can save up to 1 kilogram of CO₂ per charging session in certain European regions (read more in this blog). Moreover, the overall adoption of smart charging can reduce total emissions by up to 16%, highlighting its significant potential for reducing the carbon footprint (FUSE study).
Looking at customer cases, Monta’s smart charging feature powered by Electricity Maps has saved an average of 200 grams of CO₂ per charge since its launch in May 2023, leading to combined savings of over 15 tons across customers, demonstrating the impact of optimized EV charging. On an industrial scale, optimizing electricity use based on carbon intensity can also yield significant reductions, as seen in Salesforce’s AI-training data centers, which saved 105 tons of CO₂.
Both optimizing based on renewable energy and carbon emissions have their advantages, and the best approach depends on your specific goals.
Optimizing based on hourly flow-traced carbon intensity provides a more precise measure of the emissions associated with electricity consumption. This approach considers all electricity on the grid, including local production and exchanges with neighboring grids, offering the most accurate representation of the carbon footprint. It effectively reflects the real-time environmental impact of your electricity use, making it a strong choice for reducing your overall carbon footprint.
On the other hand, optimizing based on renewable energy is beneficial because it aligns electricity consumption with the availability of renewable resources like wind and solar. Focusing on renewable energy is intuitive and easily understandable for end-users, which can enhance user engagement and education about grid dynamics. The signal can also help address the intermittency of renewables and support grid stability by making consumption patterns more predictable.
For users with green electricity contracts, our API can add significant value by addressing some key limitations of these contracts.
While green electricity contracts promise renewable energy, they often do not account for the location and time availability of green electricity, which can impact the actual environmental benefits. Sustainability features powered by Electricity Maps API addresses this mismatch. By optimizing users' electricity consumption to align it with times when the grid is greener, they can reduce real emissions and potentially save electricity costs as well. Providing insights on carbon intensity also allows users to understand and verify the impact of their green energy use.
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