What grid emission factor should a factory in Tanzania use?
Tanzania generates from hydro and natural gas, and new large hydro has been lowering the factor. A location based figure of roughly 0.3 to 0.5 kg CO2 per kWh is typical in recent years; use the official or IEA figure for the reporting year and state source and year.
Location based
Use the national figure for the year of the bills. Dry years with less hydro push it up.
Generators
Diesel run during outages is Scope 1, not Scope 2. Keep fuel invoices separate from power bills.
Market based
Without contracts or certificates for renewable power, use the grid average here too.
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.