What grid emission factor sits behind the Panipat profile's carbon dioxide totals, and how does it compare with 0.675?
Two Panipat unit types in the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) profile burn no fuel. Floor covering, 1,362 tonnes of oil equivalent and 14,096 tonnes of carbon dioxide, and yarn units, 692 and 7,159, both imply about 0.89 kilograms a kilowatt hour, against 0.675 for financial year 2025-26.
The two electricity-only rows
- Floor covering: electricity 16 million kilowatt hours (kWh), thermal energy none, total 1,362 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), 14,096 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2).
- Yarn processing and looms: 8 million kWh, thermal none, 692 toe, 7,159 tonnes CO2.
- Our reading: both electricity rows look rounded to whole millions. A better route is to turn toe back into kWh, using 860 kilocalories (kcal) a kWh and 10 million kcal a toe, the factors that fit the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) Tiruppur manual's tables (878 lakh kcal for 102,128 kWh is 860 kcal a kWh; 42,478 lakh kcal is 425 toe). Applying them to Panipat is our assumption: 1,362 toe is 15.84 million kWh and 692 toe is 8.05 million.
The factor that falls out
14,096 tonnes / 15.84 million kWh = 0.890 kilograms (kg) of CO2 a kWh. 7,159 / 8.05 million = 0.890. On the printed millions it is 0.881 and 0.895. The profile prints no factor, so this is our reading from its own rows: about 0.89.
That is 32% above 0.675, the factor for financial year (FY) 2025-26 (Central Electricity Authority, version 22.0). We have not checked 0.89 against the Authority's figure for 2014-15, the survey year.
What it does to the totals
- The cluster's power is printed as 85 million kWh (the four rows add to 86; the profile does not say why it prints 85). At 0.89 that is 75,650 tonnes; at 0.675 it is 57,375 tonnes.
- The difference, 18,275 tonnes, is 4.8% of the profile's 383,470 tonnes, so the grid factor moves the cluster total a little and the electricity-only rows a lot.
- The two electricity-only rows alone, at 0.675: 15.84 million kWh gives 10,690 tonnes and 8.05 million gives 5,431, against 14,096 and 7,159 printed.
Do not mix the two bases
If you set your own FY 2025-26 figure, built at 0.675, next to the profile's total, or next to a share of it, part of any difference is the factor and not your efficiency. Use the factor for the financial year on your bill: 0.675 for FY 2025-26, 0.710 for FY 2024-25.
Both rows, one factor
- Floor covering: 1,362 toe x 10,000,000 / 860 = 15,837,209 kWh; 14,096,000 kg / 15,837,209 = 0.890
- Yarn and looms: 692 toe x 10,000,000 / 860 = 8,046,512 kWh; 7,159,000 / 8,046,512 = 0.890
- Same power at 0.675: 15.84 million x 0.675 = 10,690 tonnes; 8.05 million x 0.675 = 5,431 tonnes
- Cluster power at both factors: 85 million x 0.89 = 75,650 tonnes; 85 million x 0.675 = 57,375 tonnes
Inputs are TERI's 2014-15 rows and conversions that fit the BEE Tiruppur manual's tables. The factor reading is ours.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so each month's kWh is kept with the bill's period and the factor for that period applies to it. It does not change a published survey's totals.
Sources: TERI, Energy Profile: Panipat Textile Cluster (SAMEEEKSHA), BEE, Manual on Energy Conservation Measures in Textile Cluster, Tirupur (SAMEEEKSHA), CEA CO2 Baseline Database, version 22.0
Last reviewed 2026-11-06. Check the Central Electricity Authority baseline database each April for the new financial year's factor.