When your building purchases renewable electricity from your energy provider, Measurabl will ask you to fill out information about the nature of the building’s renewables procurement. This information is used for certain reporting, particularly GRESB.
What renewables data is collected and what do the different options mean?
The procurement data points, options, and definitions are derived from GRESB’s procurement data model, described in Appendix 1 of their 2025 changes document.
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Procurement Type (Full definitions of the different procurement type options are available in the RE100 Technical Criteria - 2022 - Section Four)
- Self-generation from facilities owned by the company
- Physical power purchase agreement (physical PPA)
- Project-specific supply contract with electricity supplier
- Retail supply contract with electricity supplier
- Default delivered renewable electricity from the grid
- Default delivered renewable electricity from the grid in a market with at least a 95% renewable generation mix and where there is no mechanism for specifically allocating renewable electricity
- Mixed: A mix of the stated procurement mechanisms for the individual asset
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Market-Based Claim
- Bundled: reflects the situation in which the purchase of physical electricity and the associated environmental attributes (EACs) are sold together as part of the same transaction or contract. This creates a clear link between the Renewable Energy being consumed and its environmental benefits.
- Unbundled: A situation where Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) are separated from the physical electricity they represent and sold or traded independently of the actual energy. The “Unbundled” option should be selected if EACs are acquired via virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) or to reflect the use of “replacement Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)” or “REC arbitrage” in which the original EACs of a particular energy procurement contract are substituted for others on an EAC market.
- No market-based claim: When no EACs are retired in correspondence with the energy consumption. Importantly, this option must be selected if the EACs corresponding with the energy consumption are sold as opposed to being retired.
- Mixed: There is a known combination of “bundled” and “unbundled”. This does not include situations for which a portion of the reported Renewable Energy exhibits no market-based claim – i.e. did not retire the associated EACs.
- Unknown: It is unknown if EACs were retired for any portion of the reported Renewable Energy.
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Proximity (only relevant if Market-Based Claim is Bundled, Unbundled, or Mixed)
- Same market: “Market” as defined by RE100 Technical Criteria - 2022 - Appendix B: Market Boundaries
- Different market: “Market” as defined by RE100 Technical Criteria - 2022 - Appendix B: Market Boundaries
- Mixed: There is a known proportion between EACs from the “same market” as the reported consumption and EACs from a “different market” as the reported consumption.
- Unknown: Uncertainty for any portion of the market-based Renewable Energy claim, if the EACs retired pertain to the “same” or a “different” market as the market in which the energy was consumed.
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Vintage (only relevant if Market-Based Claim is Bundled, Unbundled, or Mixed)
- Performance year/period: The vintage of the retired EAC falls within either the "performance year” (i.e., the year in which the energy consumption occurred) or within a relevant certification/regulation-backed eligibility window (e.g., Green-e's 21-month eligibility window, or the European Energy Certificate System’s country-specific Domain Protocols). Such windows must be designed for EACs of voluntary retail markets and not for the compliance of national or regional government commitments (e.g., renewable portfolio standards, or the Australian Government Clean Energy Regulator’s “Renewable Energy Target”, which sometimes have larger eligibility windows.
- Not performance year/period
- Mixed: There is a known proportion between EACs from the “performance year/period” as the reported consumption and EACs not from the performance year/period as the reported consumption.
- Unknown: Uncertainty for any portion of the market-based Renewable Energy claim, as to whether the EACs retired correspond or not to the performance year/period in which the energy was consumed.
How do I set my Renewables Procurement settings?
If you have a building that has at least 1 meter that purchases renewable electricity, as indicated by either setting the meter’s “fully renewable” toggle or by declaring a time-bound full- or partial-renewables contract, you’ll be able to set/alter your Renewables Procurement settings by visiting the building’s Utilities page and clicking the Edit Renewables Procurement Settings button in the top-right.
The settings can be set in the Renewables Procurement modal. Note: You only need to set Proximity and Vintage if the Market-Based Claim field is set to Bundled, Unbundled, or Mixed.
If your building doesn’t have Renewables Procurement settings established, whenever you create or edit an electric meter with purchased renewables, the modal will appear asking you to set those settings.