⛽ Fuel
Add information about the fuel or fuels consumed by your installation during your specified reporting period.
The emissions associated with your fuel consumption are classified as combustion emissions and they will contribute to your direct (Scope 1) emissions.
Under the EU CBAM, fuels can also classified as source streams.
Our platform currently supports the calculation-based approach, which is one of the two approaches permitted by the EU CBAM. This approach, in turn, distinguishes between two methods: the standard method and the mass balance method. We explain these methods in more detail here.
Unless you operate an integrated steel mill or produce sintered ore, pig iron, or crude steel, use the standard method.
Right-click on the screen and select External Inputs > Fuel
Select the Standard calculation method
Enter the type of fuel consumed
If your fuel type is not listed, you can add a new one by typing its name and clicking Create.
Note: If you add a new fuel, the platform will not provide calculation factors, so you will need to enter them manually. Please use the Notes field to specify your data sources.
Select the Measurement Unit
Enter the Quantity of the selected fuel consumed during the reporting period
Click Data Sources to view the data sources used by Carbon Glance for the NCV and Emission Factor
If you replace the pre-filled values for the NCV or Emission Factor with your own values, the data source will automatically update to User Input. In such cases, use the Notes field to specify the source of your data.
Click Next
Right-click on the screen and select External Inputs > Fuel
Select the Mass Balance calculation method
Enter the type of fuel consumed
Select the Measurement Unit
Enter the Quantity of the selected fuel consumed during your reporting period
Click Data Sources to view the data sources used by Carbon Glance for the NCV and Emission Factor
Add Notes
Click Next
Right-click on the Fuel
Click Edit
Click Next to save your changes
Right-click on the Production Process
Click Delete
For calculating emissions from fuels and materials, the EU CBAM allows the use of various data sources, some of which are considered to be of higher quality than others. The highest-quality data source is laboratory analysis, which can be used to determine calculation factors such as carbon content, emission factor, biomass fraction, and/or oxidation factor of the fuels consumed by your installation.
Alternatively, you may use a proxy for the carbon content or emission factor, provided you establish an empirical correlation at least once per year using laboratory analysis. The key difference is that, with this approach, laboratory analysis is only required once a year to establish the correlation, rather than for each batch of material, which helps reduce monitoring costs.
The lowest-quality data, though still permitted when other options are technically unfeasible or would incur unreasonable costs, is the use of standard values. The image below illustrates the hierarchy of these data sources based on their quality.
You have two options:
- Use the database of standard values provided by us (Carbon Glance) Please note that our database may not include global or country-specific data for every type of fuel. In cases where data is missing, no values will be automatically pre-filled, and you will need to input them manually. If you'd like us to add calculation factors for a specific type of fuel, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]
- Input your own values You can use standard values from data sources you already use for other carbon accounting frameworks, or even data from higher data quality sources. It's very important to specify the source of these values in the Notes field to ensure transparency.
We use various data sources for the calculation factors of fuels, including the net calorific value (NCV) and emission factor (EF). If an installation is located in a country for which we have country-specific values, those values will be used instead of global ones. We will continue to expand the range of country-specific data sources.
1-. Global values:
This source is also the one used in Annex VIII to the EU CBAM Implementing Regulation. Hence, it is aligned with the EU CBAM expectations.
2-. Country-specific values:
Turkey
United Kingdom
Carbon Glance Criteria for Data Source Prioritization
We prioritize data sources based on the following criteria, listed in order of relevance:
- Granularity
- Preference is given to country-specific datasets over global ones.
- Recency
- Data from the most recent year is preferred over older datasets.
- Consistency
- When multiple sources are available for the same country and year, preference is given to the one most commonly used across our platform for other countries. This is done to ensure greater consistency in the underlying methodologies.