Arcadia

Does the core business genuinely avoid or reduce emissions, or build climate resilience? Share of revenue that is actually 'green'. Fossil-dependent models score low.

Arcadia's platform enables the clean energy ecosystem by providing utility data to 2,000–10,000 utilities across 50+ countries, covering 95% of U.S. utility accounts, and powering ESG carbon reporting, solar/storage forecasting, and EV optimization for 1,500+ organizations — genuine indirect climate value, but no independently verified avoided-emissions quantum is published.

Credible, science-based targets (SBTi), a real net-zero plan with progress to date, and CDP disclosure — not just a dated press release.

No SBTi-validated targets, no CDP disclosure, and no publicly available net-zero commitment with interim milestones were found for Arcadia's own operations; the company publishes a self-authored Corporate Responsibility Report (FY23) that explicitly acknowledges it is a private company still building out its sustainability program, with no external verification.

Operational footprint, labour and social practices, and governance quality across the company's own operations and supply chain.

As a software and data company, Arcadia's direct operational footprint is modest (cloud-based on AWS), but its consumer community solar arm has generated persistent and widespread customer complaints about billing confusion, deceptive door-to-door sales tactics, and a difficult 90-day cancellation process, reflecting weak social/labor governance of its distribution channel.

Quality of disclosure, independent third-party verification, and how much hard data backs the company's claims.

Arcadia publishes a self-authored Corporate Responsibility Report and blog-level content on carbon reporting best practices, but no third-party audit of its own emissions or impact claims exists beyond Deloitte auditing its REC purchases; there is no TCFD report, no CDP score, and no independently verified impact metrics for the data platform's downstream emissions enablement.

Controversies, litigation, pollution, fossil-fuel lobbying, conflict-zone involvement and governance scandals. Higher means cleaner.

No major regulatory fines, litigation, fossil lobbying, or governance scandals were found, but Arcadia's consumer-facing community solar sales channel carries a documented pattern of misleading door-to-door sales practices and billing disputes across BBB, Trustpilot, and Yelp, representing a meaningful reputational integrity risk even as its B2B enterprise platform appears uncontroversial.