What grid emission factor should a supplier in Qatar use?
Qatar runs its grid almost entirely on natural gas, with a growing share of solar, so the location based factor sits close to half a kilogram of CO2 per kWh. Use the official or IEA figure for the reporting year, state source and year, and report contracted solar separately under the market based method.
Location based
The national average for the year of the bills. Large solar plants added in recent years lower it gradually.
Market based
Only contractual instruments that meet the Scope 2 quality criteria change this figure. Without them it equals the grid average.
What to send a buyer
- Monthly kWh from bills.
- Both totals, labelled, with factor source and year.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads electricity bills into dated, fingerprinted records and keeps location based and market based figures side by side, each with the factor and year used.
Sources: GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance, IEA, electricity and emissions data
Last reviewed 2026-10-21.