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Impact case
Years of power purchase · North Sea array, 240 GWh a year
A contract read line by line before it was signed, with the additionality argument written down rather than assumed from the certificate.
The client came to us with a fourteen-year power purchase agreement already drafted and a press release already written. The release said the agreement would make their operations carbon neutral. The agreement, read line by line, did not say that, and the gap between the two was the entire engagement.
What the contract did do was bring 240 GWh a year of new North Sea capacity onto the grid under a long-term commitment — which is a stronger claim than the one they were about to make, and a defensible one. It just has to be stated as what it is.
Market-based and location-based figures were produced separately and published side by side, because they answer different questions and only one of them changes when a contract is signed.
Everything outside Scope 2. The agreement does nothing for the fleet, nothing for the supply chain, and nothing for the two sites outside the balancing area it serves. Those sit in the same table, unimproved, because a reader who finds them later will reasonably ask what else was left out.
They had a better story than the one they were about to tell. It only needed to be the true one.
Both figures, the contract analysis, and a one-page note setting out exactly which claim the agreement supports and which it does not. The press release was rewritten around the stronger claim, and it came out shorter than the one it replaced.
The people who signed off the figures, on what the work was like to sit through.
They opened with the three numbers in our last report they could not stand behind. It was an uncomfortable hour and it saved us a correction.
Our Scope 3 was a spend model wearing a measurement badge. They replaced the half of it that mattered and left the rest labelled as an estimate.
The disclosure draft came back with the caveats in the body rather than a footnote. Our board asked better questions because of it.
