📋Storage Providers Sustainability Criteria

The criteria and procedures specified here are intended to define (1) what constitutes a comprehensive carbon accounting exercise (covering Scopes 1, 2, & 3), and (2) how to source renewable electricity for the purposes of environmental disclosures or ESG reporting mechanisms. The contents herein draw inspiration from the following documents:

• Crypto Climate Accord’s Carbon Accounting Guidance Documentation

• GHG Protocol Corporate Standards, Mitigation Goal Standard and Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard

• GHG Protocol: Guidelines for Quantifying GHG Reductions from Grid-connected Projects

• RMI's Emissions Score Approach

• WattTime Emissionality paper

• SBTi’s Criteria and Recommendations

• European Energy Efficiency Platform (E3P) 2022 Best Practice Guidelines for the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency

• CDP’s RE100 Documentation on Making Credible Renewable Electricity Usage Claims

• RE100 Technical Criteria