What proof does an export buyer accept that my RECs were retired for my factory?

Send the registry's redemption or retirement statement, not a broker's certificate. It must name your company and factory as beneficiary, list the certificate IDs and MWh, show the generation period, and match your consumption period. Add the electricity bills it covers and a one-page reconciliation of MWh retired against kWh used.

The fields the redemption statement must show

• Beneficiary: your legal entity name and, where the registry allows it, the factory or site the claim is for. A statement in the trader's name proves nothing for you.
• Certificate identifiers or serial number range, so the buyer can see each MWh is counted once.
• Quantity in MWh. One India REC and one I-REC each stand for 1 MWh.
• Generation period and the generating plant, its technology and its location.
• Consumption or reporting period the redemption is for, and the date of redemption.
• Status shown as redeemed, retired or cancelled, not merely held or transferred.

Why a broker's PDF is not enough

The GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance accepts a certificate only if it is a unique claim and is retired by or on behalf of the reporting company. Only the registry record shows both. A seller's letter or a certificate image can be copied or reused.

Ask the trader to redeem in your name, then download the statement yourself from the registry account, or ask for the registry's own statement with a reference the buyer can look up. For India RECs the registry is run by Grid Controller of India (Grid-India); I-RECs are redeemed in the I-REC registry, which issues a redemption statement naming the beneficiary.

The reconciliation page buyers ask for

1. List each site's kWh by month from the electricity bills for the reporting year.
2. List each redemption: statement reference, MWh, generation period, beneficiary site.
3. Match them: MWh redeemed per site against MWh used per site in the same year. Most buyers will not let surplus at one site cover another unless the statement names both.
4. Report location-based Scope 2 on all kWh, and market-based Scope 2 with the covered MWh at zero and the rest at your residual or grid figure, stating which.

Where evidence packs get rejected

• Generation period from a much earlier year than the consumption being claimed.
• Beneficiary is a trading company, or the group parent with no site named where the buyer asks for site-level claims.
• Same MWh also claimed under a green tariff or a captive PPA for the same site.
• Certificates bought for a renewable purchase obligation and then reused for a voluntary claim to the buyer.

Worked example: one factory, one year

• Bills, April 2025 to March 2026: 1,800,000 kWh, which is 1,800 MWh
• Redemption statement: 1,500 India RECs, beneficiary named as the company and this factory, generation within FY 2025-26
• Covered: 1,500 MWh; uncovered: 300 MWh, which is 300,000 kWh
• Location-based Scope 2: 1,800,000 x 0.710 = 1,278,000 kg CO2, about 1,278 tonnes
• Market-based Scope 2: 300,000 x 0.710 = 213,000 kg CO2, about 213 tonnes, using the grid figure for the uncovered part as stated in the note

If the buyer's method asks for a residual mix factor for the uncovered part, use theirs and say so.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads the kWh from each electricity bill for location-based Scope 2 and reports a market-based figure when you add the certificate quantity and period, keeping the redemption statement with the bills. It does not buy, redeem or check certificates in any registry.

• Do RE100 and CDP accept Indian RECs?
• I-REC or India REC?
• How to buy RECs in India
• Market vs location-based Scope 2

Sources: GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance, Scope 2 Quality Criteria, CERC (Terms and Conditions for Renewable Energy Certificates) Regulations, 2022; India REC mechanism policy (Ministry of Power)

Last reviewed 2026-10-18. Registry operators and statement formats change; check the current India REC registry run by Grid-India and the current I-REC registry statement fields before sending the pack.