CDP Climate Change 2022 Reporting Guidance

(C8.2h) Provide details of your organization’s renewable electricity purchases in the reporting year by country

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Renewable energy is critical to the transition to a low-carbon economy. In this question, companies can demonstrate progress towards their RE100 commitment by reporting the details of their renewable electricity purchasing by country.

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Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy

Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Goal 13: Climate action

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• Members are expected to disclose a country/area of consumption and of origin for all their purchases of renewable electricity. RE100 assesses reporting against the technical criteria and will consider guidance published in its Note on Market Boundaries to determine which purchases reported in this question are of in-market renewable electricity. If no country/area of origin of renewable electricity is specified and no other information is disclosed which RE100 can use to determine that the sourcing was in-market (such as an appropriate tracking mechanism from the same market as the country/area of consumption), RE100 will be forced to determine the sourcing out-of-market.
• If you have operations in countries where the default delivered renewable electricity from a grid is 95% or more renewable and where there is no mechanism for specifically allocating renewable electricity (i.e., Uruguay, Paraguay or Ethiopia, as indicated in column 1), you should select “Default delivered renewable electricity from a grid that is 95% or more…” in column 2, “Renewable electricity mix” in column 3, “No instrument used” in column 5, the country/area of origin in column 7, and then you may leave the remaining columns (6, 8, 9, 10) blank.
• Data and information you provide should be for the reporting year only (as defined by your answer to C0.2).

Country/area of renewable electricity consumption (column 1)

• Select the country/area where the purchased electricity has been consumed.
• You should add multiple rows per country if you used multiple sourcing methods in the same country in the reporting year. E.g. if you have a green electricity contract in India for one of your offices and purchased unbundled Indian RECs to cover the electricity consumption of another office, you should add two separate rows for India.

Sourcing method (column 2)

• Different sourcing methods in the same country should be reported in separate rows. E.g. if you have a PPA with a solar energy generator supported by Guarantees of Origin certificates from Spain to cover your consumption in Spain, Italy, and France, you should enter data in three rows and select the country of consumption as Spain, Italy, and France.
• For detailed definitions of the different sourcing methods and guidance on making renewable electricity claims, please refer to the RE100 Reporting Guidance.
• If you select “Default delivered renewable electricity from the grid, supported by energy attribute certificates”, you should refer to the RE100 Reporting Guidance and provide information to support your claim in the “Comment” column (column 11).
• If you select “Other, please specify” to report a sourcing method not listed here, ensure that it meets the requirements listed in the RE100 paper Making Credible Renewable Usage Claims and provide more information in the “Comment” column (column 11).

Renewable electricity technology type (column 3)

• If selecting biomass, note that as per the RE100 Technical Criteria, RE100 only considers electricity generated from biomass (and biogas) renewable if it is sustainably sourced. See the “Explanation of terms” for more information. If you select the option “Sustainable biomass”, provide a justification for why you consider the biomass to be sustainable in the “Comment” column (column 11).

Tracking Instrument Used (column 5)

• For guidance on the accepted instruments for renewable electricity attribute delivery, please refer to the RE100 Reporting Guidance.
• In markets where no certificates are available, the tracking instrument may be just an electricity supply contract with the supplier. In this case, select “Contract”.
• If you select “Other, please specify” to report a tracking instrument not listed here, ensure that the instrument meets the criteria for contractual allocation of attributes outlined in the RE100 paper Making Credible Renewable Usage Claims and provide more information in the “Comment” column (column 11).

Total attribute instruments retained for consumption by your organization (MWh) (column 6)

• Report the total megawatt hours of purchased attribute instruments retained by your organization to exclusively claim consumption.

Country/area of origin (generation) of the renewable electricity/attribute consumed (column 7)

• Note that this is referring to the country/area where the renewable electricity was generated and/or the country/area where the purchased attribute certificates were generated from. E.g. if you have a PPA with a solar energy generator supported by Guarantees of Origin certificates from Spain to cover your consumption in Spain, Italy, and France, you should enter “Spain” as the country of origin for your consumption in Spain, Italy, and France.
• RE100 will compare the country/area of consumption and of origin and use guidance published in its Note on Market Boundaries to determine whether the reported sourcing was in-market. If no country/area of origin of renewable electricity is specified and no other information is disclosed which RE100 can use to determine that sourcing was in-market (such as an appropriate tracking mechanism from the same market as the country/area of consumption), RE100 will be forced to determine the sourcing out-of-market.

Commissioning year of the energy generation facility (column 8)

• This refers to the year when the power plant went in operation or if the facility was re-powered, the year of re-powering.
• If this information is not available to you, you may leave this column blank and explain why this information is not available to you in the "Comment" column (column 11).

Vintage of the renewable energy/attribute (column 9)

• This refers to the year the renewable electricity and/or the attribute certificates purchased were generated.
• RE100 recommends that the vintage of the electricity generation be reasonably close to the reporting year of the electricity consumption to which it is applied.

Brand, label, or certification of this renewable electricity purchase (column 10)

• Provide more details of the selected brand, label, or certification in the “Comment” column (column 11).
• If there is no brand, label, or certification associated with this renewable electricity purchase, select “No brand, label, or certification”.

Explanation of terms

• Attribute: Descriptive or performance characteristics of a particular generation resource. For Scope 2 GHG accounting, the GHG emission rate attribute of the energy generation is required to be included in a contractual instrument in order to make a claim.
• Contractual instrument (or ‘instrument’): Any type of contract between two parties for the sale and purchase of energy bundled with attributes about the energy generation, or for unbundled attribute claims. Markets differ as to what contractual instruments are commonly available or used by companies to purchase energy or claim specific attributes about it, but they can include energy attribute certificates (e.g. RECs, GOs), direct contracts (PPAs), green tariffs and other instruments.
• Energy attribute certificate: A category of contractual instruments used in the energy sector to convey information about energy generation to other entities involved in the sale, distribution, consumption, or regulation of electricity.
• Unbundled energy attribute certificate: An energy attribute certificate that is separate, and may be traded separately, from the underlying energy produced.
• Biomass: any organic matter, i.e. biological material, available on a renewable basis. Includes feedstock derived from animals or plants, such as wood and agricultural crops, and organic waste from municipal and industrial sources. Biomass fuels should be sustainably sourced and certified where possible, and include:
  • Solid biofuels - solid fuels derived from biomass. Includes feedstock derived from animals or plants, such as wood and agricultural crops, and organic waste from municipal and industrial sources.
  • Biogas - a mixture of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) used as fuel and produced by bacterial degradation of organic matter or through gasification of biomass.
  • Liquid biofuels - liquid fuels derived from biomass such as ethanol and biodiesel