These emissions occur during the generation of the electricity consumed by your supplier’s installation, regardless of whether it was produced onsite or imported. To report these emissions, you must quantify the electricity consumed for each imported product and multiply it by the relevant emission factor. Here are the options for determining this factor:
a) If the electricity is from the grid, you can use:
– The default emission factor provided by the European Commission based on IEA data.
– Any other emission factor from the origin country’s electricity grid based on publicly available data representing either the average or CO2 emission factor.
b) If the operator also generates electricity onsite (as an “auto-producer”), they must monitor emissions from the power or combined heat and power (CHP) unit. Specific rules are used to calculate the emission factor based on the fuel mix and consider CHP heat production if applicable.
c) If the operator receives electricity from a designated installation under a “power purchase agreement,” and if the power unit monitors emissions according to auto-producer rules and shares that data with you, you may use the resulting actual emission factor for that electricity.
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