Is chilled water bought from a district cooling plant Scope 2?

Yes. Purchased cooling is Scope 2, like purchased electricity and steam. Ask the provider for the emissions per unit of cooling, usually per TR-hour or kWh of cooling, based on their electricity and fuel. Without it, estimate from their chiller efficiency and the grid factor, and label it an estimate.

What to ask the provider

• Cooling delivered to you per month, from the meter.
• Their plant electricity and fuel per unit of cooling.
• Refrigerant top-ups, which they report in their own Scope 1.

If you get only a bill in rupees

Ask for the metered TR-hours. A rupee-based estimate is weak evidence and verifiers will ask for the meter data.

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.

• Emissions from purchased steam
• Chiller plant per TR-hour

Sources: GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance, GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.