Axion: Energy Hotspots

Table of Contents

• Navigation
• Energy Hotspots
  • Regional Hotspots
  • Electricity Grid Mix
  • Grid Electricity Price Trends
  • Overall Energy Profile
  • Energy Usage
  • Facility Hotspots
  • Facilities
  • World Map
• Facility Summary
• Filters

Navigation

• Navigate to Insights and select Worldly Axion.
• This takes you to the Worldly Axion Overview page.

Select the Hotspots tab.

Energy Hotspots 

Hotspot charts help you pinpoint the impact of your emissions. Browse through the charts to get overall summaries by regions, facilities, and emissions source distribution. 

The Energy Risk Area has the following hotspots:

• Regional Hotspots
• Electricity Grid Mix
• Grid Electricity Price Trends
• Overall Energy Profile
• Energy Usage
• Facility Hotspots
• Facilities
• World Map

Regional Hotspots

This section shows regional energy performance and context using a heatmap by country. The top half displays data reported in facility assessments, including fossil and renewable energy use, electricity use, and use of renewable certificates (EACs/RECs). The bottom half shows national electricity grid metrics such as current and projected renewable or coal shares, helping to assess future transition risk or opportunity.

Use this view to identify regions with higher fossil dependence or lower access to clean energy, and scroll right to explore additional countries.

• Ave. energy intensity: The average amount of energy used per unit of production displayed in MJ/kg and MJ/pcpr across facilities in the region. Reflects operational energy efficiency.
• Fac. fossil use %: The percentage of energy consumed by the facility, which is sourced directly from fossil fuels (e.g. natural gas, coal, diesel).
• Fac. renew. use %: The percentage of energy consumed by the facility, which is sourced from renewable sources, including on-site solar and purchased renewables.
• Electricity use %: The percentage of total energy consumption that comes from electricity (both grid-supplied and on-site generated).
• With EAC / REC %: The proportion of facilities that report using Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) or Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to claim renewable electricity use.
  • Source: Higg FEM
• Current grid renew. %: The share of electricity from renewable sources as of the most recent year. Source: NGFS.
• 2030 grid renew. %: Projected share of renewable energy in the national grid by 2030, based on international energy forecasts. Source: NGFS.
• Current grid coal %: The percentage of grid electricity that is generated using coal. Source: NGFS.
• 2030 grid coal %: Projected share of coal in the national grid by 2030, indicating how much coal reliance is expected to decline (or not). Source: NGFS.
• Renewable Energy Procurement Maturity: A rating out of four, illustrated with a correspondingly filled circle, is assigned based on availability and corporate use of renewable energy procurement mechanisms in the country. Ratings are as follow:
  • Full Circle: Multiple procurement options available and in use (PPAs, contracts with suppliers, EACs)
  • ⅔ Circle: EACs in common use by corporates; other procurement types not widely available or adopted
  • ⅓ Circle: EACs available but not in common use or recognized by companies
  • Empty Circle: Options largely unavailable or no data for market

Source: REE100 (2024) & RECs.org

Electricity Grid Mix

This section shows the share of electricity generation by fuel type for each region. Each stacked bar represents 100 percent of a region’s electricity mix, split into sources such as coal, gas, hydro, solar, or wind.

This helps you compare the relative cleanliness of electricity across regions and understand how much of the local grid relies on fossil fuels versus renewables. Use the dropdown to switch between different regional views.

• Bioenergy: Energy from organic materials like wood, crop waste, or biofuels. Can be renewable but may have emissions depending on the source and use.
• Coal: A high-emission fossil fuel burned to generate electricity. Major contributor to carbon and air pollution.
• Gas: Refers to natural gas, a fossil fuel used for power and heating. Lower emissions than coal but still carbon-intensive.
• Hydro: Renewable energy from flowing water (like dams). Low emissions but may impact ecosystems.
• Nuclear: Low-emission electricity. Not renewable, but does not produce direct carbon emissions.
• Other Fossil: Includes oil or less common fossil-based sources not listed separately. Typically high-emission.
• Other Renewables: Includes renewable sources not shown separately, such as geothermal or tidal power. Low or zero emissions.
• Solar: Renewable electricity generated from sunlight using solar panels. Zero direct emissions.
• Wind: Renewable electricity from wind turbines. Clean energy with no direct emissions.

Source: EMBER

Grid Electricity Price Trends

This chart shows projected trends in grid electricity prices across countries from 2025 to 2030. Prices are shown in dollars per megajoule ($/MJ), with each line representing a country.

Use the dropdown to switch between scenarios to help you anticipate future price shifts under different future states and assess the financial implications of grid electricity use across different locations. Scenarios are:

• Low Emissions / Net Zero 2050 Aligned (NGFS Net Zero 2050)
• Moderate Emissions / Policy Progress (NGFS Nationally Determined Contributions)
• High Emissions / Limited Progress (NGFS Current Policies)

Source: IEA & NGFS

Energy Usage

This section shows the total energy consumption across countries and energy types. The stacked bars represent total energy use in megajoules (MJ) by country, split by source like gas, electricity, biofuel, or coal. The donut chart gives a global view of the energy mix, showing how much each type contributes to overall energy use.

• Oil: Liquid fossil fuel used for heating or machinery. Typically higher in emissions and used in specific industrial processes.
• Coal: Solid fossil fuel burned on-site, often in boilers. High emissions and less efficient than other energy types.
• Biofuel: Organic-based fuel (like ethanol or biodiesel) used in vehicles or equipment. Can be renewable but still emits CO₂ when burned.
• Gas: Natural gas used for heating, steam, or industrial processes. Common and less polluting than coal but still fossil-based.
• Electricity: Energy purchased from the grid. Emissions depend on the local grid mix (renewable vs fossil sources).
• Other: Includes steam, purchased heat, or any non-listed energy sources. Emissions vary based on origin and use.

Source: Higg FEM

Facility Hotspots

This section highlights facility energy hotspots by plotting data points using any combination of metrics on the x- and y-axes.

You can use the dropdowns to explore relationships between metrics like total energy use, production volume, emissions intensity, or energy intensity. These views help you target underperforming facilities, assess progress toward energy goals, and uncover where operational or energy source or mix changes could drive impact.

An additional set of advanced filters allow selection of subsets of facilities based on specific fuel use or policies.

Source: Higg FEM

Facilities

This table provides a facility-by-facility breakdown of energy use and emissions characteristics. It shows each facility’s emissions intensity, fossil fuel usage, renewable energy usage, electricity usage, and whether they report using Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) or Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).

While the Facility Summary shows this data in aggregate, this table lets you explore individual entries and sort or compare them directly.

Source: Higg FEM

World Map

Use the interactive map to analyze regions and facilities with the highest risk and opportunity.

The colored gradient legend shows the carbon intensity of facilities. As carbon intensity increases, the color changes from green (very low carbon intensity) to red (very high carbon intensity).

Click on the color coded facility to switch to the Facility Summary to explore data visually and identify outliers or trends.

Facility Summary 

The Facility Summary can be found by:

1. Selecting the blue facility name on the Facilities table
   
2. Selecting the color coded facility on the World Map.
   

Facility Section

This section provides a snapshot summary of all available metrics for the specific facility selected. Facility data is provided for the most recent assessment submitted. Heat and Extreme Event risk ratings are calculated using the Climate scenario SSP2-4.5 and for near term (2025-2030) timescales. Full details can be found in the Methodology.

Facility Summary

This section displays specific headline metrics in a radar chart, contrasting the selected supplier data with all other suppliers.

Carbon 

This section displays emissions data and existing targets, which can be further interrogated in Direct and Indirect groupings by the emissions graph below. Available scenarios are:

• Low Emissions / Net Zero 2050 Aligned (NGFS Net Zero 2050)
• Moderate Emissions / Policy Progress (NGFS Nationally Determined Contributions)
• High Emissions / Limited Progress (NGFS Current Policies)

The doughnut chart displays a breakdown of the carbon emissions fuel sources by %.

Energy 

This section displays energy intensity data and existing targets. The country and facility grid mix fuel sources are displayed by % in the bar chart and doughnut graph below.

Water 

This section displays water intensity metrics, current water risk exposure and vulnerability ratings, existing water reduction targets and water sources by % in the doughnut chart below.

Heat 

This section summarizes the number of Heat Discomfort and Stress warning days, whether climate control is in operation at the facility and the % of productivity at risk.

Extreme Events

This section provides the facility direct risk rating for each of the main physical risk hazards considered on this platform; flood, wildfire and extreme wind.

Filters

The left-hand filter column automatically updates all metrics throughout the dashboard to reflect the filtered data set. Filters that are applied once are applied to all tabs within Worldly Axion. The dashboard filters enable users to organize and slice the data to quickly determine which facilities are best suited for intervention.

Adjust these filters to model different future states by country, facility type, production process and year. This enables more specific scenarios by facility, region or other combination of facilities based on filters. Further detail on how these metrics are defined can be found in the Methodology.