Importing steel, aluminium or cement? From 1 January 2027, UK CBAM puts a price on its carbon.
What to do: Get each supplier's real embedded emissions, or report on government default values.
Where the carbon in your purchases comes from · UK importers
- Cement
- Iron & steel
- Aluminium
- Fertilisers
- Hydrogen
- Data to request
Inner ring: what you buy. Middle: the plant that made it. Outer: where that plant's carbon comes from, sized by impact. Select any circle. These are typical chains; your own supplier map is built in a pilot.
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From our pilot sites
What measurement finds
CarbonMeter is an early-stage platform with live pilot deployments. Every site measured to date consumed 12–22% of its electricity outside operating hours — waste that only shows up when you measure at the asset.
12–22%
of electricity used outside operating hours
30s
asset-level measurement interval
4
AI anomaly detectors
How it works
From a reading to a report
- Step 1
Measure
CarbonMeter nodes measure each machine and circuit every 30 seconds, with no outage or rewiring.
- Step 2
Account
Real-time Scope 1 and 2 using DEFRA factors and half-hourly grid carbon intensity. Every figure traces to a reading.
- Step 3
Detect
AI learns each asset's normal pattern and flags waste, drift, spikes and faults as they happen.
- Step 4
Act
A ranked list of savings, and audit-ready CBAM, SECR and ESOS reports from the same data.
CBAM supplier data
Your suppliers' real emissions, before 1 January 2027
According to HM Revenue & Customs, UK importers can report CBAM goods using actual data on the emissions embodied in them, or default values set by the government. Actual data has to come from the plant that made the goods. A CBAM readiness pilot gets you that data.
- 1
Map
Trace each import to the plant that made it, and find which suppliers' data counts.
- 2
Request
Ask the suppliers that matter, accepting the EU CBAM template they may already use.
- 3
Extract
Read replies in any format and language with AI-assisted tooling, reviewed by our team.
- 4
Check
Test every figure against the plant's production route, benchmarks and default values.
- 5
Report
Embedded emissions per supplier and product, with the evidence behind each number.
UK and EU CBAM at a glance
| UK CBAM | EU CBAM | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts | 1 January 2027 | Definitive period from 1 January 2026 |
| Goods covered | Aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen, iron and steel | The same five sectors, plus electricity |
| Who is liable | The importer of the CBAM goods | Importers, as authorised CBAM declarants |
| Threshold | £50,000 of CBAM goods | 50 tonnes net mass per importer per year (not applied to hydrogen or electricity) |
| Emissions data | Actual embedded emissions, or government default values | Actual embedded emissions, or default values |
| First payment | Return and payment for 2027 due by 31 May 2028 | Annual declaration, with CBAM certificates surrendered |
Sources: HM Revenue & Customs and HM Treasury, CBAM policy summary (updated 9 September 2026); European Commission, start of the definitive period of the CBAM in the EU (28 January 2026). UK details may still change before the regime starts.
“A recipe tells you what is in a product. It doesn't tell you its carbon. That is decided in a supplier's kiln, furnace and power contract, so we trace each import to the plant that made it and ask for its real data, rather than settling for a default value.”
~8%
of global CO₂ emissions come from cement production, according to Chatham House's report Making Concrete Change (2018). Most of it is released making clinker, which is why the supplier's kiln data matters more than the recipe.
Regulatory Compliance
Compliance, Automated
CBAM, SECR, ESOS — whichever schemes apply to your organisation, the workflow is the same: measured data in, auditor-ready reports out, with every figure traceable to a reading.
Explore ComplianceImporting steel, aluminium, cement or fertilisers? CBAM supplier-data pilotsCBAM
UK regime applies from 1 January 2027
SECR
Annual energy and carbon disclosure
ESOS
Phase 4 deadline 5 December 2027
Industries
One Platform, Any Site
The platform models sites, assets, and circuits — not one sector's processes. If it draws power, it can be measured.
Our Principles
What We Stand For
CarbonMeter is built on a simple conviction: you cannot manage what you estimate. These principles shape every product decision we make.
Measured, not estimated
Carbon figures should come from real readings, not annual averages or utility-bill guesswork. We measure at the asset — every machine, circuit, and site — so every number reflects what actually happened.
Evidence you can audit
Every figure the platform produces is traceable back to a reading, an emission factor, and a timestamp. Data lineage, audit trails, and completeness scoring are built in — not bolted on for the auditor.
Accessible to every organisation
Enterprise carbon platforms cost £50K–£200K a year. We build the same granularity for a fraction of that, because decarbonisation cannot be something only the largest companies can afford.
Industry-agnostic by design
The platform models sites, assets, and circuits — not one sector's processes. If it draws power, it can be measured: a production line, a cold store, a server rack, a treatment works, an office floor.
Measurement in service of reduction
Data is only useful if it changes something. The platform exists to surface the waste, faults, and schedule drift that cut both emissions and energy bills — compliance is the by-product, reduction is the point.
No hype
We use specific numbers, not superlatives, and we publish what we measure. Claims are grounded in data, results are stated as what they are, and pilots are called pilots.
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Frequently asked questions
CarbonMeter is carbon intelligence software that measures energy use at asset level — per machine, circuit, and site — and converts it into real-time carbon accounting, AI-driven waste detection, and automated compliance reporting. It replaces estimated, annual carbon figures with continuous measurement.
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