Product of the Year: Accounting and Intelligence

Celebrating software and data platforms that help organisations measure, report and understand their emissions, energy use and climate risk.

The finalists

Boots & Sphera

Carbon Footprint Accounting

Boots adopted Sphera's corporate carbon footprint accounting platform in 2024, having previously sent emissions data held by different teams to an external party for calculation, a process that was slow and returned limited actionable insight. The platform combines Boots operational data with Sphera's environmental database of more than 20,000 verified datasets, covering products, materials, processes, transport and energy. By FY25 the Boots team was calculating its own footprint without consultant support. The revised methodology also allowed 2022 emissions to be recalculated and revised down. Combined Scope 1 and 2 emissions fell 13% between FY24 and FY25.

Brook Green Supply

Optimus

Optimus is a cloud-based platform from Brook Green Supply that brings consumption, billing, portfolio and market data into one system, giving business energy users and third-party intermediaries a current view of electricity and gas use through configurable dashboards and self-service reporting. It was built in response to organisations needing to understand not just how much energy they use but when, as price volatility and renewable generation make timing increasingly material. Since launching in April 2026 it has onboarded over 1,000 unique users across a customer base of around 1,350 organisations, with 215 users generating 1,498 data downloads.

Carbon Sherpa

Carbon Sherpa is a browser-based tool that takes users step by step through collecting data, calculating emissions and identifying the largest carbon hotspots across infrastructure and construction projects, from early design through procurement, delivery and maintenance. It is built around the requirements of PAS 2080, the standard for whole-life carbon management in infrastructure, with the aim of replacing inconsistent spreadsheets with a common structure that allows comparison between projects and teams. Outputs are presented as visuals and prioritised actions rather than raw figures, intended to make carbon assessment usable by project managers and commercial staff rather than specialists alone.

Green Business UK

Carbon Tracker

The Green Business Carbon Tracker is a web-based tool built for hospitality and tourism operators, a sector where 99.6% of UK businesses are SMEs and where enterprise carbon platforms costing £8,000 to £150,000 a year are neither affordable nor designed for hotels and visitor attractions. Built on the GHG Protocol and UK Government conversion factors, it covers Scopes 1, 2 and 3 at £500 a year, free to Green Tourism members, and is validated to ISO 14064-3 with dual verification each reporting year. Results are expressed as intensity metrics such as emissions per guest night, so improvements reflect efficiency rather than changes in occupancy.

IFS

IFS Zero

IFS Zero, launched in May 2026, is an emissions platform for asset-intensive industries that reads directly from the operational systems generating the emissions – enterprise resource planning, asset and field service management, facilities, production and supply chain – rather than relying on spreadsheets maintained separately from operations. AI agents map, categorise and validate Scope 1, 2 and 3 activity data automatically to produce audit-ready outputs with traceable sources. It is aimed at energy and utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing, aerospace and defence, construction, mining, telecoms and logistics, and works alongside IFS's wider sustainability management module.

Jupiter Intelligence

ClimateScore Global

ClimateScore Global converts peer-reviewed climate science into asset-level physical risk data, modelling flood, wind, heat, drought and wildfire across IPCC scenarios to 2100 for 22.3 billion locations. Its relevance to the energy transition is that the solar farms, wind installations, grid infrastructure and battery storage being built to deliver net zero are themselves exposed to worsening climate hazards over decades-long asset lives, and that exposure determines whether projects remain insurable and financeable. Rather than high-medium-low scores, the platform expresses risk in financial terms including expected loss and return on adaptation spending, delivered through APIs or software.

UK Power Networks

Spotlight

Spotlight addresses the reliance on customers identifying themselves as vulnerable in order to receive energy support, which leaves many eligible households unregistered through lack of awareness or reluctance to come forward. Using explainable machine learning across internal records and aggregated external data, it flags households likely to qualify for the Priority Services Register or fuel poverty assistance, then triggers tailored outreach automatically from within existing workflows.