How does a Singrauli pithead power plant count upstream emissions of its coal?
Add mining diesel and electricity, methane from the opencast mines, and the short haul to the plant by conveyor, merry go round rail or truck, per tonne received. This is Scope 3 category 3. A pithead plant's haul is short, so mining and methane usually dominate.
The pieces
- Mining diesel and power, from the supplier or an estimate per tonne.
- Methane: surface mining 1.2 cubic metres per tonne on the IPCC default.
- Conveyor power, if it is your own, is already in your electricity.
- Rail or truck fuel for the haul.
Own or bought
Coal from a mine your group runs is your Scope 1. Coal bought from another company is Scope 3.
Records
Coal receipts by source mine, and the transport mode for each.
What Senseible does here
Senseible turns supplier invoices into a Scope 3 record with the supplier, quantity and factor behind every figure, so you can see which supplier data is still missing.
Sources: 2006 IPCC Guidelines, Volume 2: Energy, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, CEA CO2 Baseline Database, v21.0
Last reviewed 2026-10-21.