Enterprise climate budgets fund net-new AI compute spend on multi-period commitments.
Now running design-partner pilots
The settlement layer between clean energy and AI compute.
Enterprises convert verified clean-energy certificates into AI compute spend — verified, claim-safe, and settled with audit-grade evidence.
The disconnect
Enterprises
Hold clean-energy certificates that stop creating value after year-end reporting.
Sustainability teams source certificates each year to support a corporate electricity claim. Once reported, the asset is done working — even though the underlying clean generation can still back a more specific, more recent claim.
AI vendors
Need clean energy, flexible demand, and committed revenue.
Compute providers are building out long-lived infrastructure. They want high-integrity clean supply on their load, workloads that bend to grid conditions, and customers willing to commit beyond a single billing cycle.
There is no rail that connects the two. Suncord is that rail.
How it works
A five-step settlement, end to end.
- 1
Verify
Confirm the certificate against its source registry — issuing body, vintage, location, and quality tier.
- 2
Match
Pair the verified certificate with a participating AI vendor's electricity load.
- 3
Exchange
The enterprise's certificate value is exchanged for AI compute spend with the matched vendor.
- 4
Retire & issue credits
The certificate is retired against the vendor's load on the source registry, and the vendor issues AI compute credits to the enterprise.
- 5
Claim-safe receipt
Both sides receive a settlement receipt with registry evidence and pre-agreed claim language.
For AI vendors
Committed revenue, clean supply, and flexible demand — settled on one rail.
The clean-energy supply you would have procured anyway — verified at the registry level, on your existing load.
Credits redeem only on flexible workload classes — batch, cached, off-peak — so the demand they create lands in your cheapest hours, documented for reporting.
For enterprises
A stronger claim on the AI you already use.
Certificates that today expire with the reporting cycle are converted into AI budget at their verified value.
A verified claim tied to your AI usage — not a generic electricity statement at the corporate boundary.
Every step — verification, match, retirement, receipt — is captured for assurance review.
Built for scrutiny
Every transaction produces a defensible record.
Each settlement carries registry retirement evidence, a quality-tier disclosure, and pre-agreed claim language. The mechanism is designed alongside recognised methodologies, not in place of them.
- GHG Protocol Scope 2 & 3 guidance
- EnergyTag granular certificate principles
- SCI — Software Carbon Intensity (ISO/IEC 21031)
Settlement receipt — illustrative
- Registry evidence
- Source registry retirement ID
- Quality tier
- Disclosed (instrument type, hourly match, location, vintage)
- Matching
- Vendor load, time window, geography
- Claim language
- Pre-agreed wording for reporting & disclosures
Example structure shown for illustration. Receipt fields are finalised with design-partner counsel during the pilot.