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MetricEnergy consumption and source mix

Energy intensity by boundary and denominator

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Energy intensity by boundary and denominator is a source-independent sustainability result associated with GRI 103: Energy 2025. The reporting boundary, period, observation role, field units and required dimensions remain explicit.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — field-level units: Structured result - retain each source-reported field unit
Reporting basis
The annual reporting period, with target, base-year, baseline, prior-period and restated observations retaining their declared reference period.
Aggregation
Aggregate only compatible, non-overlapping observations with the same reporting entity, boundary, period, population, unit, denominator, classification and GRI edition. Recompute ratios from compatible components.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Energy consumption and source mix
Controlled domain
Energy
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

The reporting organization or significant upstream/downstream value-chain population required by GRI 103: Energy 2025, retaining energy source, carrier, activity and Scope 3 category dimensions.

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.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI 103: Energy 2025

    energy-intensity-by-boundary-and-denominator
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    GRI 103: Energy 2025; effective 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    Disclosure 103-4-a through 103-4-c, PDF pages 15-16
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    GRI 103: Energy 2025; effective 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Disclosure 103-4-a through 103-4-c, PDF pages 15-16
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — field-level units: Structured result - retain each source-reported field unit
Reporting basis
The annual reporting period, with target, base-year, baseline, prior-period and restated observations retaining their declared reference period.

Unit meaning: Each table field uses its stated unit. Retain the unit and scale stated for every component. Energy observations preserve the disclosed J or Wh multiple and conversion factor; current-period biogenic CO2 remains distinct from source-labeled base-year CO2e.

Table fields and units

  • Energy numerator and source-reported J or Wh multiple
  • Organization-specific denominator value and unit
  • Energy intensity ratio and compound unit
  • Within-organization, value-chain or combined boundary
  • Included fuel, electricity, heating, cooling or steam types

Published dimensions

  • GRI requirements: 103-4-a, 103-4-b, 103-4-c
  • Reporting entity and annual reporting period
  • Source-defined population, boundary and dimensional breakdowns
  • Future-effective GRI 2025 edition and early-adoption status

Calculation method

Formula information

Status
Specified
Formula type
Intensity

Formula

E / D

Divide compatible energy consumption by the organization-specific denominator, preserving whether the numerator covers operations, the value chain or both and preserving the compound unit.

Variables

SymbolVariableDefinitionUnit
EEnergy consumptionEnergy in the stated J or Wh multiple after disclosed conversionDimensionless
DOrganization-specific denominatorThe reported physical, production, revenue or other denominator for the same period and boundaryDimensionless

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 1 September 2026

    GRI 103: Energy 2025

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    GRI 103: Energy 2025; effective 1 January 2027
    Locator
    Disclosure 103-4-a through 103-4-c, PDF pages 15-16

    Supports: Energy intensity by boundary and denominator is a quantitative result associated with 103-4-a, 103-4-b, 103-4-c under the stated conditional applicability.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: GRI 103: Energy 2025; effective 1 January 2027

  • State the applicable GRI standard, disclosure fragment, edition and effective or early-adoption status.
  • State the reporting entity, boundary, population, period, unit, denominator and required dimensional classifications.
  • State estimation, energy conversion, restatement, omission and assurance status where applicable.

Record-specific limitations

  • GRI 102 and GRI 103 become effective on 1 January 2027; predecessor editions remain historically applicable before that date and are not overwritten.
  • Applicability is conditional on the topic being material and the disclosure being relevant; no minimum number of these disclosures is imposed.
  • Guidance-only examples, optional presentation values, formula operands and dimension members are not additional metric identities.
  • Comparability requires the same boundary, population, period, unit, denominator, classification and method.

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.