Watttime Corporation

In fy23 Watttime's progress accelerated rapidly, on multiple fronts.- aer assistance: we saw a dramatic increase in the number of people we were able to help shift electricity to cleaner times by automating their devices to do so (now called "automated emissions reduction or aer). This year we helped 330 million new devices adopt aer, including e.g. Apple iphones, bmw electric vehicles, and others in the countries where the data to make aer possible (known as "marginal emissions data") exist yet. - research to make aer possible globally: in fy23, we also neared completion of a long-standing Watttime goal, (cont. On sch. O)which was to develop marginal emissions data estimates for every country worldwide, sufficient to make aer possible anywhere on earth. As of the end of fy23 we had developed a method to do so and were preparing to implement the method in fy24. Thanks to this progress, we are anticipating being able to in fy24 finally make aer possible in over 150 new countries, further dramatically increasing the number of people able to use it. This very significant technical milestone is possible in large part to our climate trace initiative (mentioned below) to gather and harmonize global emisisons data from the world's power grids and other sources.- marginal emissions data validation research: as aer becomes more widespread, it is a growing issue that there are not yet a widely agreed-upon standards regarding how best to validate the accuracy marginal emissions estimates. Consistent with our mission to develop and spread common protocols for this practice, this year we particularly focused on developing such methods and launching a coalition to debate, review and harmonize around them. Our new coalition, veraci-t.org, consists of marginal emissions data experts at universities, companies, and power grid operators. Through veraci-t, Watttime and other exeprts co-develop, review, and harmonize around open, free, peer-reviewed, standardized approaches that anyone can use to validate the accuracy of marginal emissions data estimates.- climate trace emissions data reseach: the climate trace research project has now begun providing data of sufficient global availability and detail to begin making global aer viable. In fy23, it also began producing enormous amounts of other useful emissions data. We led this growing coalition of collaborating environmental nonprofits, universities, and tech companies in greatly improving the start of the art in global emissions monitoring of electrical grids, but also many other forms of pollution. In particular, in december 2023 the coalition released by far the most comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions dataset in history, representing detailed open, free emissions estimates for over 352 million of the largest sources of emissions on the planet. Watttime incurs general & administrative and fundraising costs in support of its overall mission, which includes climate trace. Climate trace program costs do not represent the full costs of running climate trace.- exploring novel applications of emissions data: we also deepened our growing explorations into whether the advanced emissions data from climate trace might make possible novel new emissions-reducing strategies similar to, but distinct from, Watttime's original core mission of shifting electricity to cleaner times to reduce environmental harm. For example, we piloted using climate trace data a technique to shift steel manufacturing to cleaner facilities to reduce environmental harm. We a number of the world's largest buyers of steel (including gm, tesla, boeing, and others) in piloting this technique. While still early days, the techniques appear successful and in fy24 Watttime will explore whether it may make sense to expand our nonprofit mission to also include developing, raising awareness of, and developing common protocols for a wider range of environmentally beneficial practices.