Scope 2 electricity consumption hourly matched with low-carbon electricity
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Scope 2 electricity consumption hourly matched with low-carbon electricity is a future-effective SBTi Version 2.0 result. It preserves the applicable company population, reporting boundary, period, denominator and required disaggregation without importing source prose.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- % — percentage of the compatible denominator
- Reporting basis
- The annual reporting period or applicable target, validation or OER cycle; base, target, cumulative and current-period observations remain separately identified.
- Aggregation
- Calculate within each activity pool and time-matching interval; aggregate only by summing matched and total electricity quantities before recomputing the percentage.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Climate targets and net-zero transition
- Controlled domain
- Climate and greenhouse gases
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Electricity consumption within each significant activity pool that is eligible for hourly matching with low-carbon electricity.
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 DisclosureSource evidence
SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2.0
- Publisher
- Science Based Targets initiative
- Edition
- Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2.0, June 2026; effective 1 February 2027
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- C32.2, PDF page 63; C32.5, PDF pages 63, 64
- Adopting Disclosurescope2-hourly-matching-share
SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2.0
- Publisher
- Science Based Targets initiative
- Edition
- Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2.0, June 2026; effective 1 February 2027
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- C32.2; PDF page 63 | C32.5; PDF pages 63, 64
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- % — percentage of the compatible denominator
- Reporting basis
- The annual reporting period or applicable target, validation or OER cycle; base, target, cumulative and current-period observations remain separately identified.
Unit meaning: Percentage points from zero to one hundred unless the reporting method states otherwise.
Published dimensions
- significant activity pool
- hour or matching interval
- deliverability region
- target timeframe
- applicability: Category A companies with significant electricity use; optional for Category B companies.
- requirement level: conditional
- SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard edition and transition status
Calculation method
Formula information
- Status
- Specified
- Formula type
- Percentage
Formula
(N / D) × 100Divide the compatible hourly matched low-carbon electricity numerator by its disclosed total-population denominator for the same period and boundary, then multiply by 100.
Variables
| Symbol | Variable | Definition | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
N | hourly matched low-carbon electricity numerator | The portion of the reporting population that satisfies the hourly matched low-carbon electricity condition | Dimensionless |
D | Compatible denominator | The complete eligible population for the same entity, period and reporting boundary | Dimensionless |
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 2 September 2026
SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2.0
- Publisher
- Science Based Targets initiative
- Edition
- Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2.0, June 2026; effective 1 February 2027
- Locator
- C32.2, PDF page 63; C32.5, PDF pages 63, 64
Supports: Scope 2 electricity consumption hourly matched with low-carbon electricity is a quantitative or structured result associated with C32.2, C32.5 under the stated applicability.
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Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2.0, June 2026; effective 1 February 2027
- State the SBTi standard edition, applicable criterion, company category and effective or transition status.
- State the reporting entity, boundary, population, period, unit, denominator and dimensional classifications used.
- State estimation, conversion, exclusion, allocation, recalculation and assurance treatment where applicable.
- Link to the official SBTi source and retain the source-defined applicability conditions.
Record-specific limitations
- Version 2.0 becomes available for validation on 1 February 2027; Version 1.3.1 remains a distinct applicable edition through 31 January 2028.
- The June 2026 Methods, Metrics and Pathways consultation document is not used as final formula or benchmark authority.
- Comparability requires compatible company category, boundary, period, unit, denominator, classification and target or OER status.
- This page is an independently authored measurement aid and does not reproduce the source standard, tables, figures or equations.
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.