# Which electricity emission factor should an Indian exporter use for CBAM indirect emissions?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-indirect-emissions-electricity-factor-india

For cement and fertilisers, start with the default electricity factor the Commission sets for India. A lower actual factor needs a direct technical link to a generator or a qualifying power purchase agreement, with evidence. Check whether the importer's verifier accepts the CEA factor of 0.710 before relying on it.

## The options

- Default factor for India, from the Commission's default values.
- Actual factor from a captive or directly linked plant, backed by metering and fuel records.
- Actual factor under a power purchase agreement that meets the CBAM conditions.

## Steel and aluminium

Indirect emissions are not part of the charged figure for iron, steel, aluminium or hydrogen, so this choice matters mainly for cement and fertilisers.

## What to keep

Monthly units by source, contracts, renewable certificates if any, and a note of which factor you used and why.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel, electricity and production documents into dated, fingerprinted installation records, the starting point for the actual emissions an EU importer asks for.

- [Is the CEA factor CO2 or CO2e?](https://senseible.earth/answers/is-cea-grid-factor-co2-or-co2e)
- [Which CEA version](https://senseible.earth/answers/which-cea-grid-factor-version-for-which-year)
- [Fertiliser electricity in CBAM](https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-fertiliser-indirect-emissions-electricity)

Sources: [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621, CBAM default values](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2621/oj/eng), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773, monitoring rules](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1773/oj/eng), [CEA CO2 Baseline Database](https://cea.nic.in/cdm-co2-baseline-database/?lang=en)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.