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Self-generated non-fuel renewable energy consumption

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Self-generated non-fuel renewable energy consumption is renewable electricity, heating, cooling or steam generated without fuel input and consumed within the reporting entity's own operations.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-period flow
Aggregation
Compatible consumed MWh only; production, sales and attribute states remain separate
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Self-generated renewable energy
Controlled domain
Energy
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Non-fuel renewable energy generated inside the organizational boundary and consumed by owned or controlled operations. Fuel-based generation and energy sold are excluded, and sold renewable attributes prevent a future-profile renewable-consumption claim.

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

    self-generated-non-fuel-renewable-energy-consumption
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    GRI 103: Energy 2025; effective 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Disclosure 103-2-c, PDF pages 9 and 11
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    Published edition future-effective from 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Effective-date cover; Disclosures 103-2, 103-4 and 103-5
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-period flow

Unit meaning: This metric is reported as a structured table; each field carries the unit stated in the table fields below.

Table fields and units

  • Electricity, heating, cooling or steam carrier and renewable source
  • Energy consumed (MWh — megawatt-hours of self-generated non-fuel renewable energy; 1 MWh = 1,000 kWh)
  • Activity, facility and country
  • Attribute-retained or attribute-sold state and consumed or sold destination
  • Reporting period, method edition and missing-value reason

Published dimensions

  • Self-generated renewable-energy row
  • Electricity, heating, cooling or steam carrier
  • Renewable source
  • Activity, facility and country
  • Attribute-retained or attribute-sold state
  • Consumed or sold destination
  • Reporting method edition

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

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 15 August 2026

    GRI 103: Energy 2025

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    Published edition future-effective from 1 January 2027
    Locator
    Effective-date cover; Disclosures 103-2, 103-4 and 103-5

    Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Self-generated non-fuel renewable energy consumption”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Binding Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 consolidated 1 January 2025, ESRS E1-5 paragraph 37(c)(iii) and AR32(e)-(g); GRI 103: Energy 2025 and the July 2026 ESRS annex are compatibility evidence only.

  • Electricity, heating, cooling or steam carrier and renewable source
  • Activity, facility and country
  • Energy consumed in MWh, spelled out as megawatt-hours of self-generated non-fuel renewable energy
  • Attribute-retained or attribute-sold state
  • Consumed or sold destination
  • Reporting period and method edition
  • Fuel-based self-generation exclusion
  • Controls separating production, consumption, sales and purchased energy
  • Unavailable values with reasons, never silently represented as zero

Record-specific limitations

  • This metric is not total production, installed renewable capacity, gross generation or energy sold.
  • Fuel-based cogeneration is excluded even when its fuel is renewable because its energy is recorded under fuel consumption.
  • Sold energy and sold renewable attributes cannot be represented as own-operations renewable consumption.
  • Self-generated consumption, production and sales remain separate and are not additive.

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.