Retailer

Use back button from the brower Retailer (also retail provider): The entity selling energy to final consumers, representing final process in the delivery of electricity from generation to the consumer. Also known as electric service provider, competitive power supplier or power marketer depending on the national or subnational regulation.

Boundaries

Use back button from the brower Boundaries: GHG accounting and reporting boundaries can have several dimensions, (i.e., organizational, operational, geographic, business unit. and target boundaries). The inventory boundary determines which emissions are accounted and reported by the company. Related Articles: Emissions over Time – The 1 Best read

Fugitive emissions

Use back button from the brower Fugitive emissions: Emissions that are not physically controlled but result from the intentional or unintentional releases of GHGs. They commonly arise from the production, processing transmission storage and use of fuels and other chemicals, often through joints, seals, packing, gaskets, etc.

Process emissions

Use back button from the brower Process emissions: Emissions generated from manufacturing processes, such as the C02 that is arises from the breakdown of calcium carbonate (CaC03) during cement manufacture.

Operational control

Use back button from the brower Operational control: A consolidation approach whereby a company accounts for 100 percent of the GHG emissions over which it has operational control. It does not account for GHG emissions from operations in which it owns an interest but does not have operational control.

Double counting

Use back button from the brower Double counting: Two or more reporting companies claiming the same emissions or reductions in the same scope, or a single company reporting the same emissions in multiple scopes.

Organizational boundaries

Use back button from the brower Organizational boundaries: The boundaries that determine the operations owned or controlled by the reporting company, depending on the consolidation approach taken (equity or control approach).  

Operational boundaries

Use back button from the brower Operational boundaries: The boundaries that determine the direct and indirect emissions associated with operations owned or controlled by the reporting company.

Inventory boundary

Use back button from the brower Inventory boundary: An imaginary line that encompasses the direct and indirect emissions included in the inventory. It results from the chosen organizational and operational boundaries.