Unified Metrics Library - Energy Consumption intensity

"Energy consumption intensity" means the ratio of energy consumption per unit of activity, output or any other metric of the investee company to the total energy consumption of that investee company.

Regulatory Definition

According to the (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022, the metric is defined as "Energy consumption in GWh per million EUR of revenue of investee companies, per high-impact climate sector"

"Energy Consumption intensity" = "Total energy consumption (Gwh)" / "Total revenue (€m)"

• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the details of the content and presentation of the information in relation to the principle of do no significant harm. ANNEX I (Table 2, Indicators applicable to investments in investee companies, Greenhouse gas emissions section, Indicator 6)

• Regulation (EU) 2019/2089 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 as regards EU Climate Transition Benchmarks, EU Paris-aligned Benchmarks and sustainability-related disclosures for benchmarks

• Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 200 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE (Sections A to H and Section L of Annex I)

Suppose your organisation falls under one of the high-impact climate sectors based on EC No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament regulations that classify economic activities. In that case, your organisation should report energy consumption intensity in GWh per million EUR of revenue.