Organizational GHG verification
The annual inventory, examined at source.
The inventory route
- Home
- Experience
- Sectors
- Utilities — what makes this sector technically different.
Utilities — what makes this sector technically different.
Emission factors that are correct for the system but wrong for the site are the most common finding here.
Hardest data points
Where inventories in this sector fail.
- Grid versus site emission factor, and which one the applicable criteria actually require — a national average applied to a site with its own generation is wrong in both directions
- Location-based and market-based reporting, and whether both are presented where the criteria require both
- Auxiliary consumption and its treatment — generated, consumed on site, and never exported
- Reconciliation of generation and export data to the settlement records the market operator holds
- Transmission and distribution losses, and which party reports them
- Renewable energy certificates and power purchase agreements, and whether the contractual instrument meets the quality criteria before it is allowed to change a figure
- Combined heat and power allocation between electricity and heat outputs
- Standby and black-start generation, which runs rarely and is often outside the meter
What is examined
The evidence we will ask for.
- Settlement-grade generation and export data for the full period
- The emission factor source, its vintage, and the justification for choosing it over the alternatives
- Auxiliary consumption metering separate from export metering
- Contractual instruments for any market-based claim, with retirement or cancellation evidence
- CHP allocation method and the energy balance it rests on
- Standby generation run hours and fuel records
Most requested
The services this sector asks for.
Product carbon footprint
Functional unit, boundary, allocation and the model behind the number.
The product routeCBAM readiness
The evidence file, the monitoring plan and the decision on actual values.
The CBAM route
The normative frame
The standards the work runs under.
ISO 14064-1:2018 · ISO 14064-3:2019. Market-based reporting follows the criteria set by the applicable programme or disclosure framework.
Scope position: Confirm the specific activity against Accreditation Schedule 1225009B at pre-engagement.
Other sectors, different evidence problems
Describe the claim — not the service.
Tell us what must be relied on, who will rely on it and by what date. We will confirm the correct programme, evidence requirement and responsible entity — or tell you it is outside our scope.