Common questions
Answers to common questions about GreenCode - the project, the pipeline, our funding, and how to get started.
GreenCode an international consortium of leading academic and business partners from around Europe, convened via ITEA (the Eureka Network's software innovation cluster), who are collaborating to produce practical automated solutions for software decarbonisation via state of the art generative AI and ICT quality assessment practices.
The partners represent a variety of sectors, viewpoints and industry specialisms which are needed to ensure a development project such as this is successful and widely applicable.
GreenCode is currently in development, so is not generally available yet.
When ready it will be made available:
- As a SaaS solution that can be integrated into common CI/CD processes;
- As an enterprise toolkit for private deployment within organisations, and;
- Via consultative services offered through a network of specialist partners.
If you are interested how GreenCode based solutions can benefit your organisation, contact us.
Software decarbonisation is the practice of reducing the energy and carbon emissions caused by running software, by improving code quality, performance and operational efficiency. It targets the layer that actually consumes the energy at runtime - the software itself - rather than the hardware or datacentre infrastructure that surrounds it.
Savings compound across every host the software runs on, every day it runs, and every device its workload reaches.
GreenCode reduces total cost of ownership by combining four levers in a single pipeline:
- AI-driven software maintenance lowers ongoing engineering cost on legacy systems;
- Automated, sustainability-aware QA catches defects and performance regressions before they cause production incidents;
- Performance optimisation cuts the compute, storage and network spend needed to run the same workload;
- CSRD-grade emissions reporting helps avoid the financial-risk and compliance cost of falling short of sustainability disclosure rules.
Adopted together, the four levers compound across every host the software runs on.
Yes. GreenCode is designed to produce auditable, ESG-grade software-emissions data fit for CSRD reporting, addressing the financial-risk problem directly - CSRD fines reach 5% of global turnover or 2x the impact on profit and loss.
The pipeline outputs both the engineering metrics development teams need and the disclosure data sustainability and ESG functions need to defend their reporting to auditors and boards.
GreenCode is an ITEA-labelled, multi-country R&D project with academic, industrial and consultancy partners across the UK, Germany, Türkiye and beyond. It combines public-private R&D funding from the Eureka Network's ITEA cluster with the commercial work of its industry partners.
This blend of academic credibility and industrial delivery is why the project sits outside the typical green-IT vendor space.
Most green-IT tooling focuses on datacentre PUE, hardware refresh cycles or procurement-side accounting. GreenCode targets the layer that actually consumes the energy at runtime: software performance and quality.
Because savings compound across every host the software runs on and every device its workload reaches, addressing the software layer typically delivers more impact than further hardware-side optimisation alone.
Get in touch via our contact page. Initial conversations focus on understanding your software estate, identifying decarbonisation priorities, and selecting which pillar of the GreenCode pipeline - assess, certify, optimise, test or train - fits your goals first.
From there we agree how to engage further: SaaS integration into your CI/CD pipeline, an enterprise toolkit for private deployment, or consultative work with a specialist partner.