They may be using something like Sift for security checking and something of yours was flagged. Source: almost 2 years ago

But sorry to break it to you, this has been done at a really large scale already although most consumers are not aware. One big player here is https://sift.com/ Almost every major retailer uses their service exactly for the reasons you mention. Source: almost 3 years ago

Reddit, for one. A pretty big list on their homepage. Source: almost 3 years ago

Germany is absolutely not green, on https://app.electricitymaps.com/map you can see that it is always in the yellow, even when its wind production is maximum. Source: over 1 year ago

During the 2021-2022 winter french npp worked pretty much as usual, then both unplanned and regular maintenance requirement hit during spring, summer, and fall 2022. But for this winter 2022-2023 we are currently fine, we're exporting 10GW right now. And unless we have an abnormally cold end of January or February we will not require any import and will keep exporting a clean energy to our dirty neighbors. Source: over 1 year ago

That's also the method used in "real time" by Electricity Maps (https://app.electricitymaps.com/map). Uh, at the moment, German's emissions are over 6x the French emissions (261 vs 41 g/kWh)! What a success! Source: over 1 year ago

Compare Ontario to the rest of the world: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. Source: over 1 year ago

Could do better is right. We have ~36GW of installed wind capacity in UK, while Germany embarrasses us with 70GW! Source. Source: over 1 year ago