Electricity Consumption (Scope 2)
Energy - This section shows you how to add your energy bill.
Record new electricity consumption
Emissions -> Sites -> Click on a site -> Energy

Click +Add and fill in your data:
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Vendor - add your Electricity provider or select one from the drop down list. This will be used to calculate emission per vendor, and will allow you to analyze your suppliers better.
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Calculation approach - this can be location based or market based. Location based approach means that the system will use emission factors for a country or region for this site, based on its' location. Market based approach will use specific information from your electricity contract and requires a vendor to be specified and custom emission factor to be added.
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Date - specify the date when the consumption has occurred. This can usually be found on your invoice.
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Clean energy percentage - if you know the breakdown of clean energy in your consumption, you can enter the percentage here - so the specified percentage will be discounted from calculations. As an example, you can specify amount of energy that is produced from solar panels on top of your office building.
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Unit of measurement - select unit of measurement for your consumption, typically kWh.
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Amount - specify the amount of electricity that has been consumed in the current reporting period.
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Comments - optionally, add any comments.
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Upload a file - upload invoices or any other files to support your records.
Updated over 3 years ago