Finalise the regulated energy and emissions report

What is going on

GreenLoop's regulated energy and emissions report for the financial year is due at the end of September and is in second review under internal project CP-26-046. The Windsor fleet fuel card data has a gap for May because a card was replaced, the method for estimating composting emissions changed this reporting year and the electricity invoices for Newcastle include a period when the site was on a different retailer. Amara Okonkwo needs the gaps closed with documented estimates, the totals recalculated using the current factors, a reconciliation to the invoices, the review checklist completed and an approval note for Fiona Ashcroft. Any error found after lodgement must be reported to the regulator, so the review has to be thorough.

Your brief

Close the data gaps with documented and defensible estimation methods, recalculate scope one and scope two emissions and energy using the current factors and methods, reconcile the data set to the invoices, complete the second reviewer checklist and prepare the report and the approval note for the General Manager.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the site energy and emissions management plan, the sustainability policy reporting requirements and the reporting obligations in the legal obligations register, and record the reporting boundary and thresholds.
• Identify every gap and change in the data set, and for the May fuel gap develop an estimate from the loader hour meters and the average consumption, documenting the method and its uncertainty.
• Apply the current composting emissions method and the current national emission factors, and record the factor sources and versions in the workbook.
• Reconcile electricity, gas and fuel totals to the invoices for all three sites including the retailer change at Newcastle, and record any variance with its explanation.
• Recalculate the scope one and scope two totals and the energy consumed and produced, and compare them with the previous year with an explanation of movements above ten percent.
• Complete the second reviewer checklist covering boundary, methods, factors, arithmetic, sources and uncertainty, and correct any error found.
• Prepare the approval note for Fiona Ashcroft summarising the totals, the estimates and their basis, the movements and the residual risks, and update CP-26-046 in the client projects register.
• Draft the record of the report for the improvement register showing the data quality improvements needed before next year.

What someone in this role would produce

• Gap and estimation method note
• Recalculated emissions and energy workbook with factor sources
• Reconciliation to invoices
• Completed second reviewer checklist
• Approval note for the General Manager