Collect Purchased Heat Data

To calculate your Purchased Heat emissions, you will need to see what data your organisation has available and choose a calculation method accordingly.

Usually, you can collect your heating consumption data from your Landlord directly, or from your Site Management, Finance, or Operations teams.

Depending on your provider, it can take a while to be provided with final heating consumption numbers as you may have to wait for a specific accounting period to end. For instance, it is not uncommon to wait for yearly consumption numbers. In this instance, you can also use your last year's consumption number as a proxy for the current accounting period. Just make sure to update your data again once you receive the actual data for the current reporting period.

You may have contractual instruments pertaining to your purchased heat which might not be held by the same department that holds your consumption data. To find out more about where you may be able to collect information on contractual instruments, see 'What is a Contractual Instrument?'.

If natural gas is used for building heating, likely with a boiler, please be sure to upload this data in the Stationary Combustion category.

When specific data is unavailable, National Averages can be used to calculate emissions. National Averages represent the average values for a given type of activity data within a specific country.

National Averages will be shown automatically when you have uploaded Organisational Data and haven't uploaded any data for Purchased Heat.

If you don’t want to use National Averages to calculate emissions you can upload a template with the value set to 0 for the respective time and facility.

If you can't access data in the required formats or have business activities not captured in our templates, please take a look at our advice here.