Introducing our grid-aware websites project – Green Web Foundation

Our mission at Green Web Foundation is working towards a fossil-free internet by 2030. There’s no single magic answer in any field of large-scale change, and digital sustainability is no different. Diverse solutions are needed from many directions. For example, we need solutions that optimise what we’re doing already, others that are more radical and redesign existing systems to achieve entirely new ways of doing things, and some that lay the groundwork for those things to happen. One of many solution areas we’ve been exploring for a while is carbon-aware. This is the practice of programming digital services to respond to the carbon intensity of electricity, and modify loading behaviour or content accordingly. Carbon intensity is a measure of the CO2 emissions associated with the fuel mix (the balance of renewable, low-carbon, and fossil fuel energy) used to generate the electricity of a particular region or activity.

Source: Introducing our grid-aware websites project – Green Web Foundation