Guides

Buying guides for green AI procurement

Start from the procurement situation rather than the vendor pitch: scenario guides show which tools fit a job, what criteria decide it and where the facts come from, and every claim traces back to a source.

Scenario guides

Each scenario starts from a real procurement situation — a reporting deadline, a cloud migration, a model to train — and lists the tools that fit, the criteria that decide between them and the sources behind the facts.

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Energy measurement tools for AI training and inference

How to assess tooling that measures energy and carbon per training run or inference request, and what the numbers can support.

5 tools · Read the scenario

Battery storage management and dispatch tools

How owners and operators should evaluate monitoring, dispatch and degradation tooling for grid-connected battery storage assets.

2 tools · Read the scenario

Carbon-aware scheduling tools for shifting compute load

What to check before moving batch or online workloads to lower-carbon hours and regions, from signal latency to SLA limits.

5 tools · Read the scenario

CBAM compliance software for embedded emissions

What EU importers need from CBAM tooling now that the definitive regime applies, from supplier installation data to certificates.

4 tools · Read the scenario

Cloud carbon accounting tools for scope 2 and 3

How procurement and sustainability teams should assess cloud emissions tooling, from provider reports to allocation by service.

4 tools · Read the scenario

Carbon accounting software for CSRD reporting

How reporting teams should evaluate carbon accounting platforms under ESRS, from factor lineage to assurance readiness.

4 tools · Read the scenario

Data centre efficiency monitoring for EU reporting

How operators should evaluate PUE, water and energy monitoring tooling against EU data centre reporting rules and internal targets.

5 tools · Read the scenario

ESG reporting platforms for mid-market companies

What mid-market teams should check in ESG reporting software, from framework coverage and approvals to assurance-ready exports.

4 tools · Read the scenario

Open-source carbon and energy libraries for engineers

What engineering teams should verify before building carbon or energy calculations on open-source libraries and APIs.

5 tools · Read the scenario

Solar asset monitoring tools for operating PV fleets

How owners and asset managers should evaluate monitoring and analytics for operating PV plants, from meter data to performance loss.

2 tools · Read the scenario

PV yield forecasting and solar resource assessment

How to evaluate solar resource and production forecasting tools for project design, financing and day-ahead operations.

2 tools · Read the scenario

Supplier emissions data collection and engagement

How procurement and sustainability teams should evaluate supplier emissions programmes, from questionnaires to Scope 3 category mapping.

4 tools · Read the scenario

Comparisons

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