Our electricity bills are still in the old company name after a merger. Can we count them?

Yes. What matters is that the site sits inside your reporting boundary, not the name printed on the bill. Keep the merger or name-change document next to the bills, and recalculate your base year if the merger brought in a large new site.

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• The board resolution, merger order or name-change certificate.
• The consumer number on the bill, matched to the site you now run.

Base year

A merger is a structural change. If it shifts your total materially, the GHG Protocol asks you to restate the base year as if the site had always been yours.

What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps each figure tied to its invoice, factor and method version, so a verifier can trace any number back to the document it came from.

• Bought a unit mid-year
• Choosing a base year

Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.