The undersigned organizations, represent industry leaders, solution providers, and advocates who are strongly committed to the acceleration of the European Union’s decarbonization objectives write to express our collective support for the timely implementation of Granular Guarantees of Origin (GOs) within the established issuing bodies of the EU as a voluntary instrument for advanced clean energy products and as permitted in the third Renewable Energy Directive.

This is the first in a series of publications by the EnergyTag Initiative. The report describes the history of existing EACs and accounting frameworks, the potential benefits of moving towards increased temporal granularity, the structure and activities of the EnergyTag organization itself, the starting principles behind the Initiative, and the first EnergyTag demonstrator projects.