Innovo Insights

How Solas Replaces a Patchwork of Registry Logins

Registry Gateway in Solas connects U.S. and international REC registries—powering unified inventory, transfers, retirements, and exportable task history.

05/20/2026

How to Manage REC Inventory Across Multiple Registries

How trading desks and compliance teams can manage REC inventory across M-RETS, WREGIS, NEPOOL GIS, PJM-GATS, and Evident in one Solas view—with tags, transfers, retirements, and audit-ready task history.

04/20/2026

Introducing Innovo Solas: REC Operations 2.0

Introducing Innovo Solas: REC Operations 2.0 — unified platform for REC operations with faster processing, streamlined workflows, multi-registry dashboard, and transfer and retirement automation.

03/18/2026

Programmable Money Meets Fragmented Markets

Stablecoins settled $27.6 trillion in 2024, surpassing Visa and Mastercard's combined transaction volume for the first time (CEX.IO, Stablecoin Landscape Report, 2025). That number carries caveats: roughly 70% was bot-driven, and the comparison conflates settlement with payment authorization. But the directional signal is unambiguous. Financial infrastructure is being rewritten on programmable rails, and the institutions that built the old rails are joining the rewrite rather than fighting it. The markets most exposed to this shift aren't retail payments. They're the fragmented commodity markets, from energy to carbon, where settlement still runs on spreadsheets, checks, and month-long cycles.

02/12/2026

UIUC Senior Design Collaboration with Innovo Markets

During the 2025 fall semester, Innovo Markets partnered with a Senior Design team from the <a href="http://ise.illinois.edu/" rel="noopener">Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering</a> at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Through this collaboration, and through the Senior Design program, we set out to address a pressing product challenge in the renewable energy market: transforming fragmented Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) data into clear, auditable, and compliance-ready reporting. The collaboration brought together current UIUC students, Illinois alumni, and Innovo’s team to design a new reporting feature from the ground up, one intended to be built directly into Innovo’s platform and used by real customers as part of the next generation of the Innovo product. The project originated through Manav Shah, who had interned at Innovo during the summer leading into the semester.  As he prepared to return to campus, he helped make the connection between the company he had worked for and the class he was about to take, aligning a real product need at Innovo with the capstone experience. Danny Koch, a mechanical engineering graduate of <a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/" rel="noopener">The Grainger College of Engineering</a> at the University of Illinois and former Senior Design student himself, now found himself supporting the experience from the opposite side. Together, Manav and Danny helped bridge Innovo and the <a href="https://ise.illinois.edu/" rel="noopener">Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering</a> to bring the project to life. At <a href="https://www.innovomarkets.com/" rel="noopener">Innovo</a>, customers made it clear that REC reporting was still heavily manual and resource-intensive. Compliance and voluntary frameworks vary widely by state and standard, registry data is scattered across systems like M-RETS and PJM-GATS, and assembling audit-ready documentation often demands substantial internal effort. Reporting has consistently been one of the most significant pain points shared by our clients, and Innovo saw this as a critical market gap.

01/12/2026

Abu Dhabi Finance Week and the future of global finance

<a href="https://www.innovomarkets.com/" rel="noopener">Innovo</a> attended Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW), where a consistent message emerged across global banks, asset managers, and policymakers. The constraint in global finance is no longer capital or intent, it’s infrastructure. Over the next 18–24 months, institutions will focus on instant settlement, data integrity, and operational efficiency, and climate finance will only scale on commercially viable, institutional-grade rails.

12/22/2025