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Utilities — Electricity · Transmission & Distribution System Operators

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Grid transmission + distribution operators' own carbon is small vs the enabled emissions they unlock — how fast they can connect new low-carbon generation + reinforce the network dominates the country's power-sector trajectory.

Companies tracked
1
Phase 1 cohort
With SBTi target
0/ 1
0% coverage
Reporting years
2020–2025
latest disclosed per firm
SBTi coverage
0%of 1 firms

Where this sector sits globally

Median operational intensity (Carbon / USDm OpEx) per sector · log scale · click any dot to switch
8 sectors
10
100
1.0k
10k
← cleanest: Consulting (25.2)dirtiest: Real Estate Services (999.6) →
Key carbon drivers
  • SF6 fugitive emissions
    SF6 has 24,300× GWP over CO2 and leaks from HV switchgear. Single largest Scope 1 category for most TSOs.
    Scope 1
  • Network losses (own use)
    ~2-3% of transmitted energy dissipates in lines + transformers. Loss reduction is a direct Scope 2 lever proportional to load.
    Scope 2
  • Grid buildout materials
    Steel, aluminium, copper, concrete in every new circuit + substation. Embodied Scope 3 that grows with every reinforcement scheme.
    Scope 3 · cat 2
  • Enabled connection emissions
    Not formally counted by most TSOs, but connection queue depth and reinforcement pace directly cap national low-carbon generation rollout.
    Scope 3 · downstream
Scope references follow the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard + Scope 3 Standard.
Reference transition plan
SBTi Power + UK CCC balanced pathway + TPT Disclosure

TSOs align to SBTi Power for their own operational trajectory and to the national net-zero pathway (UK CCC balanced pathway; equivalent US ISO / EU TSO documents) for enabled emissions. TPT Disclosure Framework is the UK reporting standard.

Methodology
MethodologyWhy enabled emissions dominate for grid TSOs
Own-Scope-1 is meaningful (SF6 leaks + fugitives) but bounded. The real climate lever is connection queue depth + reinforcement pace + network losses — every year of delay locks in fossil dispatch in the wholesale market.

Sector benchmarks · headline intensities

Per-company latest year · USD-normalised at 12-month average rates · snapshot 2026-05-05
1 firms in cohort

Each strip shows where every firm in the cohort sits on one intensity axis. Lower is better — left of the strip is best, right is worst. Each peer dot tooltips its value and the year it came from. Financial denominators are converted to USD before computing so cross-currency comparisons are apples-to-apples.

Revenue intensity

Carbon / USDm revenue
n=1 · median 874.41 · IQR 874.41874.41
0.00
137
275
412
550
687
824
962
median 874.41

Operational intensity

Carbon / USDm OpEx
n=0
no firms in this cohort have the inputs needed for this intensity

Economic intensity

Carbon / USDm EVIC
n=0
no firms in this cohort have the inputs needed for this intensity

Asset intensity

Carbon / USDm PP&E + leased
n=0
no firms in this cohort have the inputs needed for this intensity

Companies · 1 firms

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RVB IDCompanyTickerSubtypeHQRevenueOperationalEconomicAssetSources
National GridUnited Kingdom874.41
SBTiCDPReport

Reference carbon factors · Utilities — Electricity

Authoritative benchmark factors curated from published sources. Citation-anchored · pre-pilot vintage · refreshed manually as new releases land.

Below sit every reference factor relevant to a utilities — electricity firm. Use these as starting points when you need to estimate emissions for a category the cohort doesn't disclose, or to spot-check disclosed figures against the consensus range. Each value is anchored to the published source — click any source slug to open the citation.

No carbon-factor reference set built yet for Utilities — Electricity.

Sectors currently populated: management consultancy, cloud infrastructure, marketing & advertising, IT hardware laptops, agriculture (tea / dairy / eggs). To add a sector, map the procurement category inweb/src/lib/carbon-factors/procurement-to-industry.ts.