Technical Paper | Electricity-specific emission factors ...

Technical Paper | Electricity-specific emission factors for grid electricity August 2011. Authors: Matthew Brander 1, Aman Sood, Charlotte Wylie, Amy Haughton, and Jessica Lovell Internal Reviewers: Gary Davis Introduction Corporate greenhouse gas accounting involves quantifying the greenhouse gas emissions associated with a business or organisation's activities, including the consumption of grid electricity. Electricity consumption is often one of the largest sources of emissions for reporting companies, and it is therefore important that the measurement of these emissions is as accurate as possible. However, for the majority of countries the best available factors for calculating emissions from electricity consumption are the composite electricity/heat emission factors published by the International Energy Agency (IEA 2010), which are also the basis for most of the grid electricity factors in the WRI.

almost all corporate GHG inventories. In addition to Scope 2 emissions, the emissions associated with transmission and distribution losses from the electricity grid can be reported as Scope 3 emissions by the company which consumes grid electricity. 3. Emissions from electricity consumption are calculated by applying an “emission factor” to the

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