Compliance reporting depth vs live market intelligence. Most industrial reporters need both. Greenbase is a long-established Australian environmental reporting firm. Its Envago platform produces lodgement-ready NGER, NPI, Safeguard and AASB S2 reports, with full Scope 1, 2 and 3 accounting and a managed-service option. gridIQ is a real-time energy market intelligence platform whose Scope 2 is hourly time-matched on the location-based method and instrument-substantiated (EAC and LGC) on the market-based method. They overlap on the electricity-emissions layer and nowhere else.
You need hourly time-matched location-based Scope 2 and instrument-substantiated market-based Scope 2 with EAC and LGC tracking, live NEM and WEM prices, PPA evaluation and tracking, demand-charge management or an AI analyst over your energy data. Self-serve at $499/mo with a 21-day Pro trial.
You need NGER or NPI lodgement, Safeguard Mechanism applications, Scope 3, full Scope 1 including process and fugitive emissions, the complete AASB S2 narrative report or a managed service that does the reporting for you.
Most ASRS reporters with industrial facilities. Greenbase handles the annual lodgement cycle. gridIQ handles the electricity layer: time-matched Scope 2 as the authoritative input to your disclosure, plus the operational tools that reduce the numbers before you report them.
Greenbase reports electricity Scope 2 at annual-average granularity. gridIQ runs the location-based method at 30-minute resolution against live AEMO carbon intensity and substantiates the market-based method through the GHG Protocol instrument hierarchy: EAC and LGC retirements first, then PPA and NGER, then residual mix, with anything unbacked flagged as unsubstantiated rather than silently counted as zero. Each disclosure carries a sealed evidence hash an auditor can verify without a gridIQ login.
Greenbase is a cost of compliance: annual, retrospective, lodgement-driven. gridIQ is a cost-reduction tool: daily, operational, with provable ROI through the free NEM12 savings calculator, demand-charge tracking, load shifting and PPA evaluation. One proves you reported correctly. The other reduces the number you report.
Envago enters the PPA lifecycle after signing, for certificate accounting. gridIQ covers the whole arc: evaluate proposed terms with an MLF loss-adjusted backtest including wind settlement profiles, track monthly performance against strike, then feed the delivered volumes into time-matched Scope 2. Evaluate, track and account in one place.
gridIQ goes deep on the electricity-driven side of your footprint: combined Scope 1 (NGA-aligned stationary-energy fuel combustion) and dual-method Scope 2 for Australian grid-connected sites. Live AEMO carbon intensity, 30-minute time-matched location-based method, instrument-substantiated market-based method, DCCEEW factor versioning, NEM12 native ingestion and an exportable sealed disclosure with a public verify endpoint. It is not a compliance-reporting bureau. It does not lodge NGER or NPI, does not cover Scope 1 process or fugitive emissions or Scope 3 and does not write the AASB S2 narrative report.
In these cases Greenbase (or a comparable reporting firm) is the stronger choice for the lodgement and the full inventory. gridIQ slots in alongside it for the electricity-emissions layer: time-matched Scope 2 as the authoritative input to that disclosure, plus the operational tools that reduce the number before you report it.
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Greenbase pricing: Not published. Enterprise sales-led (software licence or managed service) as at June 2026
Already using Greenbase or Envago? gridIQ slots in for the electricity-emissions layer (time-matched Scope 2 plus the operational levers). Read the time-matched Scope 2 explainer.