Mandatory and optional fields by data type

Electricity

Required Fields

  • Facility - The specific location where the electricity consumption occurs. This location will be used to attribute the data to a specific Facility in the Emitwise platform.
  • End Date - The final date of your billing period. If the electricity billing is calendarized with one value a month, input that date here
  • Supplier- The name of your electricity vendor. If unknown, enter "Unknown, supplier of electricity".
  • Quantity - The total amount of electricity consumed during the reported period.
  • Quantity Unit - The unit of measurement for your electricity consumption (e.g., kWh, MWh).

Optional Fields

    • Start Date - The first date of your billing period. If the electricity billing is calendarized with one value a month, you may leave this field empty and just enter an End Date.
    • Country - The country where the electricity consumption takes place. If left blank, the system will use the country associated with the facility in the Emitwise Platform.
    • External ID - An internal reference code to help match emissions data with meter readings or invoices during audits.
    • Custom Tags - Any additional data points to analyse your emissions by. We recommend confirming your selection with your Account Team before uploading your data.

Natural Gas, Fuel consumption in stationary equipment and Fuel consumption in mobile equipment (excluding transport)

Required Fields

  • Facility - The specific location where the consumption occurs. This location will be used to attribute the data to a specific Facility in the Emitwise platform.
  • End Date:
    • For fuels: The date of purchase
    • For natural gas: The final date of the billing period. If the billing is calendarized with one value a month, input that date here
  • Supplier - The vendor name for fuel or natural gas supply.
    • If unknown:
      • For mobile and stationary fuels: "Unknown, supplier of fuels"
      • For natural gas: "Unknown, supplier of natural gas"
  • Quantity - The volume of fuel or natural gas consumed during the reported period.
  • Quantity Unit - The measurement unit for the fuel or natural gas consumption. Available units can be viewed in the dropdown menu.
  • Calorific Value Suffixes:
    • Natural gas units: Use "gross_cv" suffix (e.g., kilowatthour_gross_cv)
    • Mobile and stationary fuel units: Use "net_cv" suffix
    • Standard units without cv distinction: litres, barrel_us, kilogram
  • Fuel Description:
    • Natural gas: "Natural gas, from grid"
    • Mobile and stationary fuels: The specific fuel type (LPG, Diesel, Petrol, Gasoline, Biodiesel, Ethanol, etc.)

Optional Fields

  • Start Date
    • For natural gas: The first date of the billing period. If the billing is calendarized with one value a month, you may leave this field empty and just enter an End Date.
    • For fuels: Can match reporting period start date to distribute data evenly across months
  • Country - The location of fuel or natural gas consumption. If blank, this defaults to the country of the Facility you input.
  • External ID - An internal reference number for linking emissions data to meter readings or invoices during audits.
  • Custom Tags - Any additional data points to analyse your emissions by. We recommend confirming your selection with your Account Team before uploading your data.

Purchasing of goods and services

Required Fields

  • Facility - The specific location where the spend took place. This location will be used to attribute the data to a specific Facility in the Emitwise platform.
  • End Date - The transaction date of the purchase. If unavailable, the invoice date.
  • Supplier - The vendor name for the purchased good or service.
  • Value - The monetary amount of the transaction.
  • Currency - The currency of the transaction, preferably in ISO 3-Letter Currency codes (e.g. - USD, GBP, EUR)

Optional Fields


    • Start Date - Used only when distributing a transaction across multiple months. Setting start and end dates to the reporting period boundaries will split the data equally across those months.
    • Spend Category - The broad internal classification of the expense (e.g., Office supplies, Travel, IT - Software).
    • Product Description - A description of the purchased item or service.
    • Spend Country - The location where the transaction occurs. Defaults to the country linked to the facility in the Emitwise Platform.
    • External ID - An internal reference number for linking emissions data to invoices during audits.
    • Quantity - The physical amount of goods purchased (e.g., tonnes of HDPE).
      • When available and a matching emissions factor exists, this will be used instead of spend-based calculations.
      • Must be provided alongside spend value, not in place of it.
    • Quantity Unit - The measurement unit for the purchased goods. Available units are listed in the template dropdown.
    • Custom Tags - Any additional data points to analyse your emissions by. We recommend confirming your selection with your Account Team before uploading your data.