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APPENDIX OF SCOPE II CALCULATION EXAMPLES Calculate out the other 500 mwh sources from the grid as we did in the previous example, using the location-based eGRID subregion emissions factor, so that your California total emissions in this location-based example would be around 326,000 In the first column, you can see the location, in the second column you can see the hypothetical electricity consumption used at each site location, and then in the third column you can see the eGRID subregion and emissions factor used for each example. For the calculations at each site, take that total consumption and multiply it by its location-based emissions factor. 1. For the first example, it looks like an organization used 1000 MWh of electricity in Nevada, so you would multiply this total by the subregion emissions factor of 669.23 to get the total lbs of C02e 2. In the second example, you can see that the California emissions factor is lower than the Nevada one, suggesting a cleaner energy mix. Here, an organization is generating half of its electricity through onsite solar, for which the RECs are retained by the organization, instead of feeding the solar energy back into the grid through net metering. In this example, we assume the solar has 0 emissions associated with this solar generation. 3. When you compare both the New York and Florida sites, the energy consumption is the same, but due to New York having a less energy-intensive grid than Florida, New York's total emissions for the same amount of electricity consumed are smaller than the Florida site. This emphasizes the relevance of using the location-based method to highlight such discrepancies. L O C A T I O N - B A S E D C A L C U L A T I O N S

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