
The Problem
It’s a cruel irony: the more renewables we deploy, the harder they are to integrate into the grid. A key root cause lies in today’s clean power markets and accounting systems, which only match supply and demand on an annual basis and across vast geographies. This lets companies claim to be ‘solar powered at night’ or to “use” power that never reaches their grid.
Even ‘100% renewable’ claims often mask fossil fuel reliance, resulting in major underreporting of corporate emissions, as shown in leading research in Nature. There are no signals today for the storage, flexibility and clean-firm solutions needed to deliver cost-effective renewable integration. Left unreformed, these flawed systems will make the energy transition slower and costlier for consumers.