What does the Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) quantity verifier check in my energy figures?

The Quantitative Metrics Verifier, called the quantity verifier here, compares your energy totals with the bills and meter records behind them, month by month. Then they check units, estimates and your spreadsheet formulas. A change of over 10% on last year should have a known cause. Every verification team must name one.

What they check, from the protocol

• Source data, for example utility invoices, on-site meters and metering logs, against your aggregated totals. They shall request copies of all of it.
• Source data for each period, whether month, week or day, against your tracking records and the totals in the form.
• This year against history. The protocol says any significant change, for example an increase or decrease of over 10%, should be attributable to known changes at the facility. If not, further investigation should be conducted.
• The units you reported, and every conversion from the source units to reported units.
• Estimates and the calculations behind them.
• The systems that collect the data, including spreadsheet formulas and unit conversions, to make sure automated calculations are correct.

Who they are

A verifier is an outside examiner who checks your answers against your papers, like an examiner checking an answer sheet against the textbook. The protocol says a verification team shall include a designated Quantitative Metrics Verifier. If there is only one verifier, that person is also the quantity verifier.

Some Level 1 numbers that fall to them

• Energy: the sources of energy you select, the vehicle fuel sources, certificates bought, carbon offsets bought, the split between domestic and production energy, and tracking of vehicle fuel.
• Air emissions: whether you track refrigerant use.
• Site information: total employees and annual volume.
• The Verifier Field Guide labels the energy questions that ask whether you track energy as Reporting and Current. If today's practice differs from the reported year, the verifier flags it and comments.

The 10% test on one electricity connection

• Last year: 1,100,000 kilowatt hours (kWh). This year: 1,288,000 kWh.
• Change: 1,288,000 minus 1,100,000 = 188,000 kWh
• As a share of last year: 188,000 / 1,100,000 = 17.1%
• 17.1% is above 10%, so have the reason ready, for example a second shift or a new machine, with the dates

Figures are an example, not a real mill.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so each month's units are in one place to total, with missing months flagged. The self-serve product does not enter anything into the Higg FEM, and its records are not FEM-verified.

• Upload every bill to Higg FEM, or a sample?
• Higg FEM energy and GHG data
• Buyer carbon questionnaires: what your bills answer

Sources: Cascale, Higg FEM Verification Protocol, version 1.7 (September 2026), Cascale, Higg FEM Verifier Field Guide, version 1.3 (September 2026), Cascale, Higg FEM How to Higg Guide 2026 (English)

Last reviewed 2026-11-07. From the verification protocol (September 2026, effective 1 January 2027) and the Verifier Field Guide version 1.3. Which questions are verified changes by cycle; the protocol limits FEM2026 verification to Level 1.