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These worksheets are intended to be used in conjunction with Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A Service Sector
Guide to GHG Management, a WRI report available on the GHG Protocol website, www.ghgprotocol.org.

Name of worksheet Content / purpose

Standard
GHG emissions resulting from the consumption of purchased electricity
- To be used for all activity data collection methods, except for calculations that
follow the “building-specific data estimation" method. See Step 3 of Hot Climate, Cool
Commerce for further details.

Building Estimation GHG emissions resulting from the consumption of purchased electricity
- To be used for calculations that follow the “building-specific data estimation"
method. See Step 3 of Hot Climate, Cool Commerce for further details.

U.S. "power pool" sub-regional grid average emission factors from all electricity
EFs Electricity US Region
generation (Source: US EPA)

EFs Electricity Intl All Fuels National average emission factors from all heat and power generation (Source: IEA)

Conversion Factors Provides a chart for performing unit conversions

Version History Documents changes that have been made to the tool over time
Indirect CO2 Emissions from Purchased Electricity

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* Please ensure that emission factor units in column B are consistant with activity data units in column A.

Year: 2006
A* B* C
Activity Data:
Facility / source Electricity, Heat, CO2 emission Indirect CO2 emissions
description and/or Steam factor in metric tons
Purchase
C = A * B / 1,000,000

kWh grams CO2 / kWh metric tons CO2

Facility / source 1 0.00
Facility / source 2 0.00
Facility / source 3 0.00
Facility / source 4 0.00
Facility / source 5 0.00
Facility / source 6 0.00
Facility / source 7 0.00
Facility / source 8 0.00
Facility / source 9 0.00
Facility / source 10 0.00

Step 4: Sum CO2 emissions (in metric tons): 0.00

Indirect CO2 Emissions from Purchased Electricity - Building Estimation Method

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* Please ensure that emission factor units in column F are consistant with activity data units in column A.
** Make sure to use the same measurement units in columns B and C.

A* B** C** F G* H

Activity Data:
Area of Annual Electricity Indirect CO2
Annual CO2 emission
Location Name Total Area of the Building Company's Used by Company emissions in
Electricity Used in the factor
Building Space in Building metric tons
Building

G=ExF/
E = A x (C/B)
1,000,000
kWh kWh grams CO2 / kWh metric tons CO2
Location 1 0 0.00
Location 2 0 0.00
Location 3 0 0.00
Location 4 0 0.00
Location 5 0 0.00
Location 6 0 0.00
Location 7 0 0.00
Location 8 0 0.00
Location 9 0 0.00
Location 10 0 0.00
Location 11 0 0.00
Location 12 0 0.00

Step 7: Sum CO2 emissions (in metric tons): 0.00

Unit Conversion Factors
Mass
1 pound (lb)
1 kilogram (kg)
1 short ton (ton)
1 metric ton (tonne)
To convert from kg to
metric tons, multiply
by 0.001
453.6 grams (g) 0.4536 kilograms (kg) 0.0004536 metric tons (tonne)
2.205 pounds (lb)
2,000 pounds (lb) 907.2 kilograms (kg)
2,205 pounds (lb) 1,000 kilograms (kg) 1.102 short tons (tons)

Volume
1 cubic foot (ft 3)
1 cubic foot (ft 3)
1 US gallon (gal)
1 barrel (bbl)
1 litre (L)
1 cubic meter (m 3)
7.4805 US gallons (gal)
28.32 liters (L)
0.0238 barrel (bbl)
42 US gallons (gal)
0.001 cubic meters (m 3)
6.2897 barrels (bbl)
0.1781 barrel (bbl)
0.02832 cubic meters (m 3)
3.785 liters (L) 0.003785 cubic meters (m 3)
158.99 liters (L) 0.1589 cubic meters (m 3)
0.2642 US gallons (gal)
264.2 US gallons (gal) 1,000 liters (L)

Energy
1 kilowatt hour (kWh)
1 megajoule (MJ)
1 gigajoule (GJ)
1 Btu (btu)
1 million Btu (million btu)
1 therm (therm)
1 hundred cubic feet of
natural gas (CCF)
3,412 Btu (btu) 3,600 kilojoules (KJ)
0.001 gigajoules (GJ)
0.9478 million Btu (million btu) 277.8 kilowatt hours (kWh)
1,055 joules (J)
1.055 gigajoules (GJ) 293 kilowatt hours (kWh)
100,000 btu 0.1055 gigajoules (GJ) 29.3 kilowatt hours (kWh)
1.03 therm (therm)

Other
Kilo 1,000
Mega 1,000,000
Giga 1,000,000,000
Tera 1,000,000,000,000
1 land mile 1.609 land kilometers
1 nautical mile 1.15 land miles
1 metric ton carbon 3.664 metric tons CO2

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