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EU Energy Efficiency Directive Rating Scheme for Data Centers
The EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive is reshaping how data centers report energy performance, including how renewable electricity is procured, matched and disclosed.
A draft Delegated Act published in March 2026 proposes a mandatory sustainability rating scheme for EU data centers with an installed IT power demand above 500kW. It also introduces stricter criteria for the Guarantees of Origin used to report renewable electricity consumption, including requirements around bidding zone, temporal matching and asset commissioning date.
Download the one-pager to understand what is changing, what remains under review and how data center operators can start assessing potential implications for their renewable electricity procurement strategies.
Document of May 2026.
You will learn how to:
- Understand the current renewable energy reporting requirements for EU data centers under the Energy Efficiency Directive
- Compare today’s accepted procurement methods, including on-site generation, unbundled GOs and GO-backed PPAs
- Identify the proposed changes to GO eligibility, including same bidding zone, 15-minute matching and commissioning-date requirements
- Assess what the draft Delegated Act could mean for long-term renewable electricity procurement contracts