News & Announcements

The latest news, announcements and developments in the field from Green Strategies.

Accelerating the Hydrogen Market: Establishing a Commodity Benchmark – A Report by the Clean Hydrogen Transaction Advisory Committee

By Co-Chairs Roger Ballentine, President of Green Strategies, Inc. and John Flory, President of Clean Hydrogen Buyers Alliance. To read the full report, follow this link https://www.ch2ba.org/executive-summary Rumors of the death of clean hydrogen have been greatly exaggerated. Federal policy retrenchment is not the same as the loss of market fundamentals – and even with […]

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As the GHG Protocol eyes the homestretch in its Scope 2 revisions, are the right voices being heard?

By Roger Ballentine, President at Green Strategies, Inc. Originally published by Utility Dive. — June and July are critical months for the once-in-a-decade update to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 2 rules — the rules that guide voluntary corporate investment in clean energy. Since the Protocol first issued its Scope 2 Guidance in 2015, the private […]

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Scope 2 Revisions Process: Protecting the Voluntary Clean Energy Market

By Jon Powers, President at CleanCapital, and Roger Ballentine, President at Green Strategies, Inc. Originally published by CleanCapital. — The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, developed over 25 years ago, has become the standard for corporate emissions tracking. It began as a voluntary framework and is now used by over 90% of companies that track emissions. In […]

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What Do Clean Electricity Buyers Think About Pending Scope 2 Changes?

In late 2024, Green Strategies issued a survey to companies to ask how potential changes to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s (the Protocol) Scope 2 Guidance might impact their clean electricity procurement practices. We recently released our results in a report, How Scope 2 Revisions May Change Clean Electricity Procurement Strategies. Why did we do this […]

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Report Release – Scope 2 Accounting Revisions: Practitioners’ Perspectives

Today, hundreds of companies use the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance to account for their clean electricity purchases. While stakeholder Scope 2 revision proposals often draw upon energy system modeling and desktop studies, almost no research has been done to evaluate how buyers themselves may change their clean electricity procurement strategies under revised accounting rules. […]

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