Our buyer wants copies of our electricity bills as proof. Should we share them?
You can share them, but you do not have to send everything. Offer bills with tariff details or consumer numbers masked, or a summary of units per month with a verifier's or auditor's check. Agree confidentiality terms first.
Options
- Masked copies showing units and period.
- Monthly unit summary signed by your auditor.
- Read-only access to your records for a limited time.
What to protect
Tariff rates, consumer and account numbers, and anything that reveals your costs.
Put it in writing
Use the buyer's confidentiality clause or an NDA, and limit use to carbon reporting.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.
Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.