Cost and carbon
The reading that drives your carbon number also drives your bill.
Every figure in the platform carries a money value alongside its carbon value, from the same source data and the same descent. Not a separate finance module reconciled monthly. The same entry, with a toggle.
£123,732.67
One month, one building
energy £116,773.31 plus carbon £6,959.36
102.34
tCO2e, same entry
the identical descent, priced in carbon
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Financial screens
overview, lineage, savings, scenarios, recharges, tariffs, carbon prices
Why one ledger rather than two
Most estates run carbon reporting and energy cost management as separate exercises, on separate data, six weeks apart. The consumption figure that drives a carbon number and the consumption figure that drives an invoice are the same reading, and keeping them in different systems guarantees they will eventually disagree.
Here they cannot. Cost is computed from the same activity entry as the emission, at the tariff in force for that period, and both are visible in the same trace. A number you can defend to an auditor is the same number you can take to a landlord or a tenant.
What that gives you
Cost lineage
Walk down from portfolio spend to the entry behind it, exactly as you would for carbon. Every step shows the tariff applied and the date it was in force, so a bill query has an answer rather than an argument.
Savings analysis
Where consumption moved against the same period last year, what it cost, and which buildings account for it. Aimed at the intervention that pays, not the one that is easiest to describe.
Scenarios
Model a tariff change, a carbon price, or an efficiency intervention across the portfolio and see both the carbon and the cash effect before committing capital.
Tenant recharges
Allocate energy cost to occupiers on a recorded basis, from metered data rather than a spreadsheet apportionment nobody can reconstruct twelve months later.
Tariff rates and carbon prices
Both are held as dated series rather than a single current value, so a figure reported for one period keeps the rates that applied in that period.
The number a finance director asks for
A carbon report answers an obligation. A cost figure attached to the same entry answers a business case. Recharge recovery that can be evidenced line by line is money that was previously written off as irrecoverable service charge, and it is usually the fastest payback in the building.
Bring us a bill you cannot reconcile
We will open it down to the meter reading, the tariff that priced it and the emission it produced, in the same view.