This guide helps ensure the accuracy of your data submissions on the M2030 platform. To verify accuracy, review your CO2e & resource reduction pathway reports for anomalies and trends. Use the checklist to check for accuracy, completeness, and consistency. Ensure your data tells the expected story and matches your reduction targets.

The Importance of accurate data

Ensuring your data is accurate will clearly illustrate the progress you are making and minimize the time you spend responding to questions from your customers.

On the platform, you can report your various energy uses in; kWh, MWh, MJ, GJ, TJ, kcal, mmBtu, Therms, US Gallon, Imp. Gallon, L, ft3, m3, MCF and CCF, depending on the measurement question.

Once you’ve entered your data, it is important to conduct a thorough review and make sure there are no anomalies. Your customers will be grateful for good-quality data, and it will also make it easier for your organization to monitor progress against your carbon reduction targets. 

“From planning and forecasting to procurement and logistics, every facet of supply chain management relies on data to function effectively.” - Towards Data Science 

Identifying anomalies in your reports

Checking the quality of your data added to your Measurement page(s) should always begin with sense checking your reports. The best place to start is the CO2 & resource reduction pathway report:

• 🚩 Look at each of your reports and keep an eye out for very high or low values or unexpected trends.

  Your CO2e & resource reduction pathway waterfall chart shows your future reduction pathway. This can be enriched by populating and updating savings data and target dates in your Reduction Plan. You can modify the ‘Period’ within your report and check the absolute CO2e, energy, water, and waste data to see if the totals match your expectations:

  

  CO2e & resource intensity - This chart shows the percentage change of resource intensity relative to your total output based on your earliest year of measurements submitted. Pay close attention to your year-on-year changes in trend for your facility(s).

  Customer Reports - This report is your opportunity to view your facility through the eyes of your customer(s).

  The Reduction Plan Overview report provides tabled summaries of your Reduction Plan progress which can be filtered by time periods and process areas. Here, you can also export your Reduction Plan data to Excel and a partial CDP report in Excel format.

• You can use this checklist to see if your measurements meet our data quality standards:

  ✅ Accuracy – Check for any typos in your completed measurements fields. One extra digit can drastically increase your facility’s Greenhouse Gas (CO2e) output. Also make sure that you are reporting the correct measurement unit (kWh, MWh, MJ, GJ etc.). You can see how to correct these units here.

  ✅ Completeness – Have you completed all fields for the relevant year for submission and ticked the confirmation box at the bottom of the page? For more details on how to complete your measurements, click here.

  ✅ Consistency – Check your reports to assess your CO2e, Energy, Waste, and Water consumption trends at your sites in recent years. Your Co2e Resource Reduction Pathway report adjusted to cover all years of measurements submitted will highlight any extreme changes that could be caused by a data quality issue.

  ✅ Uniqueness – Are the data points you are adding within your measurements page unique? Especially year-on-year changes. For example, if the 2021, 2022, and 2023 ‘Electricity Standard’ are all exactly 1,000 kWh, this could suggest that the data is incorrect, as it is unlikely that the consumption amount will be identical across all measurement years.

  ✅ Fit for purpose – When checking your reports on the M2030 platform, does the data tell the story that you expect it to?
  
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