The 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Progress Survey 2025 – FAQ answers common questions about the survey, how it works, and why it matters. It explains how organizations can participate, what data is needed, and how the results will help drive the shift to clean energy around the clock.

This 24/7 CFE Compact Guidebook aims to establish a shared understanding of the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact principles and introduce key enablers to the movement. This guidebook builds on extensive research and expertise from among the signatories and is intended to support the current and future signatories on their journey towards 24/7 CFE. It is designed to be a living document that is periodically updated to match the latest research and trends.

For the first time since its launch in 2021, the signa- tories of the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact were asked to report against their progress. Through a tailored survey sent to over 150 signatories, 36 reported 459 TWh of carbon-free power enabled, with support services accounting for 59 percent of the total carbon-free power enabled.

As we advance our collaborative efforts to achieve global carbon-free energy goals, the active participation of a range of entities is becoming increasingly vital. The 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact includes governments and private sector actors who share these collective principles.

The energy sector is undergoing a significant transformation as countries strive to increase renewable energy penetration and achieve grid decarbonization. While variable renewable energy sources like solar and wind are crucial for this transition, their intermittency necessitates the uptake of energy storage solutions. Energy storage is essential for achieving high levels of variable renewable energy integration onto the grid and enabling 24/7 carbon-free energy supply. By reducing the curtailment of renewable energy and displacing high-carbon generators, energy storage technologies can significantly contribute to emission reduction.  Energy markets with price volatility and changing peak prices favour the energy arbitrage revenue model; however, this model may be less profitable in regions that lack dynamic pricing. The arbitrage model alone is insufficient to justify investment in storage, therefore, businesses should be able to monetize additional grid services such as grid capacity support and ancillary services. High capital costs and revenue uncertainties pose significant financial challenges, emphasizing the need for cost-competitive short-, long-, and seasonal-duration storage technologies to replace fossil fuels. Policies and regulations are instrumental in supporting storage deployment, with incentives and revenue stacking crucial for financial viability. The absence of regulations mandating hourly matching of electricity consumption to carbon-free sources may hinder storage adoption in many markets because industries would lack a regulatory incentive to prioritize 24/7 carbon-free energy procurement. 

Green Hydrogen represents a unique opportunity for the clean energy transition. Climate change is an existential threat to a sustainable future, but at the same time, facing up to the climate challenge is an opportunity to promote prosperity and a brighter future for all. Green hydrogen and its derivatives will play a vital role in the just energy transition.

In today’s world, reliable and granular energy and emissions data is the new gold, empowering energy and sustainability teams to navigate heightened scrutiny in carbon accounting methodologies. Hence, CFE Suite is FlexiDAO’s solution as data-backed carbon-free energy solutions and advisory services.

The 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact contributes to Panama’s existing Energy Compact commitments such as Biomass and Waste Utilization, Innovation Contests to Promote SDG7 and Renewable Energy for Latin America & the Caribbean.

As a 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact signatory, Sunshine Hydro works on making renewable energy continuously available and commercially viable through the delivery of 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy, powering industry and energy networks. This also includes tools such as Sunshine Hydro’s AESOP technology and Superhybrid innovation.

Kenya is contributing to the 24/7 CFE Compact through its energy policies and long-term development plans that are focused on promoting the use of a wide range of renewable energy sources, distributed generation to attain universal electrification, and increasing the uptake of electric mobility. The country demonstrates potential to base a significant proportion of its economic growth on carbon-free energy, setting an example for other countries to follow on the low-carbon pathway.

Decarbonizing every hour of electricity consumption is key to tackling climate change, and empowering consumers is an essential part of the solution. Explore this report from the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact to find out which enablers are needed to empower consumers as well as the emerging solutions that are already driving positive change. Learn more from Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy on Euronews.

Cities are indisputably central to the global energy transition. With over half of the world’s population residing in urban areas, cities bear the responsibility for more than two-thirds of global energy consumption and contribute to over 70% of global carbon emissions.

In association with C40 Cities, this Raconteur publication explores the future of energy, with articles on energy storage, district heat networks, aviation, energy security, offshore wind, digital twins and more.

As a 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact Signatory, Greenko is working to develop and scale technologies, support energy policies, improve procurement practices, and provide solutions to transform India’s energy system and enable rapid, cost-effective Carbon Free Energy.

In 2021, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) worked with a coalition of energy buyers, energy suppliers, governments, system operators, solutions providers, investors and other organizations to develop a commitment to 24/7 carbon-free energy, announced as an Energy Compact commitment to the United Nations. By joining the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact, companies can share innovative tools and solutions with other members in support of their carbon-free energy journey.

Stanford University’s 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy (CFE) Initiative helps institutions to decarbonize their operations by electrifying their assets and coordinating their operation to reduce emissions, electric infrastructure impacts, power and operational costs while increasing resilience during extreme events.

GoNetZero is contributing to the 24/7 CFE Compact and movement by being a scalable technological solution allowing for immutable and verified renewable energy at source and enabling 24/7 sub hourly matching.

OVO and Brook Green Supply are amongst the 15 energy suppliers joining Granular Energy’s 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy matching platform. Granular’s platform enables them to allocate and optimize hourly certificates so end-consumption can be matched with clean energy around the clock. The project will introduce a market for hourly energy certificates, in partnership with power system operators Elexon, National Grid and Energy Systems Catapult. It will also see the world’s first exchange platform for those certificates launched in partnership with the power market operator NordPool. 

Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), an international organization that works in partnership with the United Nations and leaders in government, the private sector, financial institutions, civil society and philanthropies to drive faster action towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), launched the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact during the High-Level Dialogue on Energy in September 2021 with an initial list of founding signatories committed to working toward a carbon-free future for all. 

Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a non-profit organization working to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies.

EDP is a Portuguese company that operates in 28 markets around the world and  is the fourth-largest wind energy producer in the world. EDP are at the forefront of the development of new technologies to accelerate the decarbonization of electricity systems and promote the globalization of access to clean energy.

Alongside signing the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact, EnergyTag has recently launched an initiative to define and build a market for Granular Certificates that enable consumers to choose the source of their electricity consumption in each hour of the day. The EnergyTag Initiative is an independent, non-profit, industry-led initiative that will help clean energy buyers access, track, and certify 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy.

FlexiDAO is a cleantech startup based in Amsterdam and Barcelona. FlexiDAO is one of the early signatories to the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact and helps create software for companies to reach net zero emissions by tracing where their electricity comes from and its true CO2 content.

ClearTrace, a decarbonization platform that provides the actionable data companies need to meet their renewable energy goals, joined the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact with the goal to empower the market with an hourly carbon accounting software platform that provides immutable proof of carbon reductions. By enabling real-time Carbon-Free Energy matching to consumption and hourly carbon accounting, ClearTrace hopes to unlock the pathway to grid decarbonization.

Google became operationally carbon neutral in 2007 and, in 2017, the first company of its size to match 100% of its global, annual electricity consumption with renewable energy. Google is now on a path to decarbonize its electricity supply completely to operate on 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy, everywhere, by 2030 and, alongside SEforALL, launched the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact in 2021. 

Alongside signing the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact, Microsoft submitted its own individual Energy Compact reiterating the actions it will take to have 100 percent of its electricity consumption, 100 percent of the time, matched by zero carbon sources by 2030, and to procure renewable energy to meet 100 percent of its electricity consumption by 2025.

Blok-Z, one of the early signatories of the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact is a software start-up based in Germany. Blok-Z develops a white-label blockchain platform for energy retailers to offer their customers 24/7 renewable energy tracking and matching services. With Blok-Z, customers of energy retailers can select renewable sources based on location and type, trace the origin of their energy in real time, and have access to automated sustainability tools.