Methods for carbon emissions accounting are “allocation” methods, that is allocating generator emissions to end-users.

The difference between location-based and market-based emissions

A location-based method reflects the average emissions intensity of the specific location (e.g. grids on which energy consumption occurs).
For example, electricity consumption in the United Kingdom has different carbon emissions compared to electricity usage in Italy and so on.

A market-based method reflects emissions from goods or services that companies have purposefully chosen (or their lack of choice). It derives emission factors from contractual instruments, which include any type of contract between two parties for the sale and purchase of goods and services bundled with attributes about their specific carbon credentials.
An example of this would be the usage of "green" electricity allocated via REGO or other instruments.

How to set custom emission factors

For more information on this, check our guide on how to set up your custom emission factors.

How to view these in Pilio

Performance
When looking at carbon emission charts in the "Performance" section of the Pilio software, users can choose to either view emissions with "location-based" or "market-based" calculated carbon emissions by selecting the chart type in the "Report" selection on the top left corner above the chart.

Snapshot
Users can also choose between location-based or market-based emissions when creating their tiles in the "Snapshot" section.