Average energy efficiency of sold products
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Average energy efficiency of relevant sold products, expressed as energy service or output per unit of energy input.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Single value
- Unit
- energy service or output per unit energy input — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Average energy efficiency across the relevant sold-product use population.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Scope 3 Category 11: Use of sold products
- Controlled domain
- Products and life-cycle assessment
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Energy performance during use of sold products within Scope 3 Category 11 context; excludes offsets, allowances, avoided emissions, project reductions, and removals.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Measurement AuthoritySource evidence
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Measurement
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- page 105, chapter 09, category 11 additional metrics list
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GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- page 105, chapter 09, category 11 additional metrics list
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- energy service or output per unit energy input — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use energy service or output per unit energy input under the disclosed Scope 3 method, period and boundary.
Published dimensions
- Sold product or product group
- Energy service or output measure
- Energy input measure
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. The source presents average energy efficiency of sold products as an additional Category 11 performance metric. The shortlist contains sector-specific ship design indices and energy-consumption profiles, not the same sold-product use-phase efficiency construct.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
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Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 26 August 2026
Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2011 publication
- Locator
- page 105, chapter 09, category 11 additional metrics list
Supports: The official GHG Protocol source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Average energy efficiency of sold products”.
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Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard, 2011 publication.
- Identify the sold products included in the average.
- Disclose the energy service or output basis used in the numerator.
- Disclose the energy-input basis used in the denominator.
- Disclose the basis used to calculate the reported average efficiency.
Record-specific limitations
- This is an additional performance metric and does not replace the Category 11 emissions inventory result.
- The metric is especially relevant where product-durability changes could distort lifetime-emissions trends.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.