Purchased energy
Purchased energy includes electricity, heat, cooling or steam that is generated outside of your operations (at a power plant). Your purchased energy-use will be for any facilities, buildings or electric vehicles you own or control.
GHGP reporting position:
- Scope 2: Electricity
- Scope 2: Heat and cooling
- Scope 2: Steam
Preferred units of measurement:
Data required
Facilities and electric vehicles (owned or controlled by you)
Electricity use
- kWh
- Name of the energy
- Dates of consumption
- Location of use
- Facility/vehicle name
- Renewable energy contract details
- Any other data, eg. purchasing data
- Assigned Segment
Additionally, any purchased heat, cooling or steam (delivered as a final product like electricity).
Who in your organisation has this data
- Facilities manager
- Office manager
- Operations manager
Sources of this data
- Facilities management system
- Energy management system
- Accounting, purchasing or ERP systems
Preparing the data
Preparing data in a flat file structure as in the example here, will allow you to add your data to Consequence quickly and get carbon footprint calculations automatically.
Template: Energy data
About Consequence.
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