Comment by Symbiote
Within the next year or two, I'm going to look at implementing something similar at my work.
We don't pay for electricity directly (it's included in the rackspace rental), but we could reduce our carbon footprint by adjusting the timing of batch processing, perhaps based on the carbon intensity APIs from https://app.electricitymaps.com/
Though, the first step will be to quantify the savings. I have the impression from being in the datacentre while batch jobs have started that they cause a significant increase in power use, but no numbers.
You’re probably already on top of it but if your company doesn't operate the datacenter you’ll also want to estimate the carbon cost of cooling in addition to the electricity that the machines consume.