Do I upload every electricity and fuel bill to the Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM), or just a sample?

The Higg FEM guide says you need not upload every bill, but all of them must be ready when the verifier asks. The verification protocol says the quantity verifier shall request and review all your source data. So upload a sample and keep every month's papers in one place.

Two papers, two sentences

• The 2026 guide says uploading all utility bills is not required, but they should be available for review at the time of verification. It suggests an inventory or tracking records and samples of invoices or metering records.
• A verifier is an outside examiner who checks your answers against your papers, like an examiner checking an answer sheet against the textbook. The verification protocol says the Quantitative Metrics Verifier shall request and review copies of all source data from the facility.
• Our reading: these fit together, because you upload a sample and they then ask for the rest, month by month. Cascale does not say this in one place.

What counts as enough

• A yearly spreadsheet is fine, the guide says, if detailed consumption records are available for review.
• Meter calibration records, where they apply, and any written method for estimates.
• The protocol says source data for each month, week or day is compared with your tracking records and the totals you entered.
• The guide warns not to report data if its source is unknown, and not to report estimates without a method that can be checked, for example engineering calculations.

A checklist for a typical mill

• Every state electricity bill, for every connection.
• Diesel purchase invoices, and generator run logs if kept.
• Coal, briquette or furnace oil invoices with weighment slips.
• Gas or steam statements.
• Refrigerant top-up and service records.
• Dispatch records for the product shipped, since the form asks for volume shipped or sold.

How many papers one electricity source needs

• Two connections x 12 monthly bills = 24 electricity bills for the year
• Upload: 2 bills as a sample, one from each connection, plus the yearly sheet
• Keep ready: the other 22 bills, so that 2 + 22 = 24 can be shown on the day

Counts are an example.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so each month's bills sit in one list to tie against the papers a verifier asks for. The self-serve product does not enter anything into the Higg FEM, and its records are not FEM-verified.

• Higg FEM energy and GHG data
• What the Higg FEM quantity verifier checks
• Buyer carbon questionnaires: what your bills answer

Sources: Cascale, Higg FEM How to Higg Guide 2026 (English), Cascale, Higg FEM Verification Protocol, version 1.7 (September 2026)

Last reviewed 2026-11-07. The guide and the protocol word this differently, so both are reported. Verifier practice can vary, so ask your verifier body what it wants ahead of the visit.