# CarbonMeter

> CarbonMeter Ltd is a UK carbon intelligence company in Reading. It traces CBAM products to the supplier plants that made them, collects suppliers' real embedded-emissions data in CBAM readiness pilots, and measures energy and carbon at asset level with its own hardware and software for audit-ready CBAM, SECR and ESOS reporting.

Key facts:
- Legal name: CarbonMeter Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 17054788, incorporated 25 February 2026.
- Address: 200 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading RG2 6UB, United Kingdom.
- Co-Founders: Nishanth Kumar Sirivolu and Chandra Shaker.
- Programmes and memberships: NVIDIA Inception, AWS Activate, SETsquared, IDAIC.
- Measurement: asset-level readings every 30 seconds; four AI anomaly detectors; every pilot site measured to date used 12–22% of its electricity outside operating hours.
- Pricing: subscriptions from £500 per month; pilots available.
- CBAM supplier data is offered as pilots, not yet as a self-serve product.
- Contact: contact@carbonmeter.ai, https://www.carbonmeter.ai/contact

## Facts for evaluating CarbonMeter
Checkable statements, kept current at https://www.carbonmeter.ai/products#facts. Anything not listed here should be confirmed with the company rather than assumed.

### What it is
- In one line: CarbonMeter traces the carbon in what a business buys to the plant that made it, and measures the carbon a business makes itself, so its numbers are measured, not estimated.
- Two services: CBAM supplier-data pilots for UK importers, and measured Scope 1 and 2 carbon accounting from CarbonMeter's own hardware and software.
- What it is not: Not a spend-based footprint calculator and not an enterprise ESG disclosure suite. CBAM supplier tooling is delivered as pilots, not yet as a self-serve product.

### Measurement
- Interval: CarbonMeter nodes measure each machine and circuit every 30 seconds.
- Installation: Typically installed in about a day, non-invasively, with no outage, no rewiring and no change to operations.
- Anomaly detection: Four AI detectors: running outside operating hours, baseload creep, peak demand spikes and short-cycling.
- Published finding: Every pilot site measured to date used 12 to 22% of its electricity outside operating hours.

### Carbon accounting
- Method: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, with UK Government (DESNZ/DEFRA) emission factors and half-hourly grid carbon intensity for Scope 2.
- Traceability: Every carbon figure traces to a reading, an emission factor and a timestamp. Scope 1, 2 and 3 coverage.
- Reports: CBAM, SECR and ESOS reporting with audit trails, plus multi-site benchmarking.

### CBAM supplier data
- What a pilot does: Maps a UK importer's CBAM goods to the plants that made them and what those plants run on, then collects each supplier's actual embedded-emissions data in place of government default values.
- Regulatory basis: UK CBAM starts on 1 January 2027 for aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen, and iron and steel; importers may report actual embedded emissions or use default values (HMRC and HM Treasury policy summary, gov.uk).

### Commercial
- Subscription: From £500 per month, priced by site size and the number of monitored assets.
- Deployment: Typically under £1,000.
- Pilots: A subset of assets, usually the highest-consumption ones, over about six weeks; quoted after a short scoping call. You keep the baseline.
- Support: Direct access to the engineering team that built the platform.

### Data and security
- Ownership: You own your raw data under the site agreement and can export all of it in a standard machine-readable format.
- Protection: Data is encrypted in transit and at rest; personal data is handled under UK GDPR. A written security summary is available on request.

### Company
- Entity: CarbonMeter Ltd, company number 17054788, incorporated 25 February 2026, registered in England and Wales.
- Location: 200 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading RG2 6UB, United Kingdom.
- Founders: Nishanth Kumar Sirivolu and Chandra Shaker.
- Programmes: NVIDIA Inception, AWS Activate, Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, SETsquared, IDAIC.

## Core pages
- [Homepage and supplier trace explorer](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/): trace a CBAM product through its ingredients to the suppliers and plants behind it.
- [CBAM supplier data pilots](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/cbam): how CarbonMeter maps imports to plants and collects suppliers' embedded emissions.
- [UK CBAM for cement importers](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/cbam/cement): CN 2523; where the carbon in portland and blended cement comes from and what to ask each supplier for.
- [UK CBAM for iron & steel importers](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/cbam/steel): CN 72–73; where the carbon in steel coil, bar, sections and tubes comes from and what to ask each supplier for.
- [UK CBAM for aluminium importers](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/cbam/aluminium): CN 76; where the carbon in aluminium profiles, sheet, foil and tubes comes from and what to ask each supplier for.
- [UK CBAM for fertilisers importers](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/cbam/fertiliser): CN 2808, 2814, 3102, 3105; where the carbon in nitrogen fertilisers comes from and what to ask each supplier for.
- [UK CBAM for hydrogen importers](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/cbam/hydrogen): CN 2804 10; where the carbon in hydrogen comes from and what to ask each supplier for.
- [Compliance](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/compliance): CBAM, SECR and ESOS reporting.
- [Platform](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/products): asset-level measurement, carbon accounting and AI anomaly detection.
- [Pricing](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/pricing)
- [About](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/about): company facts, team and evidence standards.
- [Contact](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/contact)

## Industries
- [Manufacturing & Production](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/industries/manufacturing): Asset-level energy and carbon measurement for factories and production lines — per machine, per shift, per product line. CBAM-ready reporting from measured data.
- [Warehouses & Cold Chain](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/industries/warehouses-cold-chain): Continuous energy and carbon measurement across refrigeration, lighting, and material handling. Detect cold-chain anomalies before they become costly.
- [Commercial Buildings](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/industries/commercial-buildings): Circuit-level visibility across HVAC, lighting, and occupancy-driven systems. Automated carbon accounting for ESG disclosure, SECR, and net-zero targets.
- [Data Centres & IT](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/industries/data-centres): PUE tracking, rack-level energy analytics, and automated carbon reporting for colocation, enterprise, and edge facilities.
- [Water & Waste Treatment](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/industries/water-treatment): Per-stage carbon intensity for treatment works — pumps, blowers, and aeration measured continuously and reported as kgCO₂e per megalitre treated.
- [Multi-Site Estates](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/industries/multi-site-estates): Portfolio-level carbon and energy analytics with centralised dashboards — compare sites, benchmark performance, and report estate-wide from one platform.

## Articles
- [How to Send a Supplier Emissions Data Request](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/blog/supplier-emissions-data-request-template) (Oct 2026): A practical guide to the plant, product, production and evidence fields to request from suppliers, with a clear format for their response.
- [How to Choose Carbon Management Software: A UK Buyer's Guide for SMEs](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/blog/choosing-carbon-management-software-uk-smes) (Oct 2026): The four categories of carbon software, what each is genuinely good for, ten questions to put to every vendor, and how UK SMEs should shortlist — written so you can compare fairly, including against us.
- [UK CBAM Starts in January 2027: What Affected Businesses Should Prepare Now](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/blog/uk-cbam-2027-what-to-prepare) (Sep 2026): The UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism applies from 1 January 2027 to imports of aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen, iron and steel. Here is what it covers and how to prepare.
- [SECR, ESOS or CBAM? Which UK Carbon Regulations Apply to Your Business](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/blog/secr-esos-cbam-which-uk-carbon-regulations-apply) (Sep 2026): A plain-English guide to the three main UK carbon and energy compliance schemes — who qualifies, what each requires, and how measured energy data satisfies all three.
- [How AI Changes Industrial Emission Tracking](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/blog/ai-industrial-emission-tracking) (Sep 2026): Machine learning turns continuous energy measurement into something a human team could never do by hand: a live baseline for every asset, and an alert the moment reality deviates from it.
- [Measured vs Estimated Carbon Data: Why the Difference Is Commercial, Not Academic](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/blog/measured-vs-estimated-carbon-data) (Sep 2026): Most operational carbon reporting is built on estimates — annual bills, average factors, allocation assumptions. Here is where estimates break down, and what measurement changes.

## Optional
- [CarbonMeter for Water](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/water)
- [Governance](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/governance)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.carbonmeter.ai/privacy)