For energy developers, operators and technology businesses.
Every new project brings suppliers, investment and another set of decisions. Light puts entity accounts, project dimensions and cash reporting in one place, so your finance team can help the business move forward with the numbers in view.
Chosen by energy and climate technology teams
Accounting software for energy businesses connects financial records, supplier spending and reporting across projects and legal entities.
A group report should help you decide where capital goes next. Light brings the entity records together and keeps project detail available, so finance can spend more time explaining the business and less time collecting its numbers.
Explore the platformUse project and cost-centre properties to organise transactions, then open reports across the group or an individual entity. Light keeps those dimensions alongside the ledger, so a question about a project starts with the underlying financial records.
Explore reportingBring in bank transactions through supported feeds or statement uploads. Light's matching rules use amounts, dates, descriptions and document numbers to pair bank activity with the books. Finance reviews differences as they arise.
Explore finance automationLight reads supplier invoices and prepares draft coding. Route approvals by entity, amount or project property, and apply release templates to spread a cost over its service period. Bill processing and the accounting entries stay connected.
Explore accounts payableRecord intercompany journals using configured account rules, with eliminations reflected in consolidated reports. Run local and group currency reporting from the same platform and review each entity before closing its period.
Explore consolidationGive every bill its context once, then carry that detail into the work finance does next.
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Capture the supplier bill, legal entity and project dimension. Your coding instructions guide the draft, and required properties keep the reporting structure consistent.
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Route the bill to its reviewer, then handle payment through the agreed bank connection or payment-file process. Matching rules connect the bank movement to the books.
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Read entity and consolidated reports with intercompany eliminations. Use the project dimensions to understand recorded spending beneath the group total.
Paebbl / Climate technology
“By implementing Light as our global ERP, we've transformed how we operate.”
Carbon capture and materials company Paebbl brought three separate ERP systems into Light as it scaled towards its first commercial plant.
Read Paebbl's storyConnected finance
Keep specialist billing, asset operations and trading workflows connected to the financial foundation. Light's open API supports financial data exchange, with integrations scoped around the systems you use and the mappings your team needs.
For asset accounting, Light's Fixed Asset app supports a register and depreciation schedules. Bring the asset classes, opening balances and accounting treatment into implementation so the register starts in step with the books.
Keep financial permissions, approval history and source documents alongside the books. Give your finance team and reviewers a clear trail from the group report to the underlying entry.
Visit the Trust CenterQuestions, answered
Light supports accounting across multiple legal entities, including separate local currencies and consolidated group reporting. For project companies or SPVs, agree the entity structure, reporting scope and any ownership or allocation requirements during implementation.
Yes. Configure project and cost-centre properties, apply them to transactions and use them in reports. Finance defines the reporting structure and any allocation logic. The result reflects the financial data recorded in Light.
Light's intercompany journals use account rules for the entities involved and post eliminations into consolidated reporting. Intercompany invoicing and paying a bill on behalf of another entity need separate scoping with the Light team.
Light's contract module supports fixed recurring amounts. Keep metered or variable-charge calculations in your specialist billing system, then scope the invoice or journal integration into Light with the team.
Light's Fixed Asset app supports the asset register and depreciation schedules. Setup includes asset classes, release templates and the details needed for imported assets. Your finance team defines and reviews the accounting treatment.
Separate group and project accounting from metered customer billing and industrial procurement. Bring an entity report, a consumption or prepayment billing example and a purchase-to-payment example. Identify which system owns each source record and which data should reach the ledger. Agree the scope of each workflow before selecting integrations.
List active and low-activity entities, local ledgers, bank accounts, currencies and the group reporting deadline. For any entity retaining another ledger, agree how balances enter group reporting, who checks the mapping and how late corrections reach the next report. Confirm setup work and ongoing costs for each entity in the proposal.
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