# What does Faridabad's engineering cluster use in energy, and what do auto OEMs ask its suppliers for?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/faridabad-engineering-cluster-carbon-footprint

Grid power, backed by a DG set in almost every unit, plus furnace oil, LPG, pet coke, wood and gas, across about 12,015 MSMEs, 35% of them making auto parts. The 5,347 units surveyed used 426,167 toe a year. OEMs ask each vendor for monthly fuel and power, Scope 1 and 2, and a figure per part.

## The cluster, from the last full survey (2011 to 12)

- About 12,015 MSMEs: 4,612 micro, 7,039 small and 364 medium.
- Auto parts make up 35% of units, sheet metal components 14% and fabrication 11%. Castings, forging, heat treatment, electroplating, fasteners, rubber and plastics make up most of the rest.
- A large share work as vendors to car, two-wheeler and tractor OEMs.
- Energy is just over 2% of manufacturing cost in fabrication units and over 44% in foundries, so the same OEM form means very different work for different vendors.

## Where the energy goes

- Grid power from DHBVN runs presses, machine shops and welding. Power cuts mean almost every unit has a DG set, so diesel turns up in nearly every Scope 1 figure.
- Furnace oil, LPG, pet coke, wood and piped gas fire furnaces in forging, heat treatment and foundries.
- The 5,347 units in the survey used 426,167 toe a year: on average about 80 toe a unit, a rough figure that hides a spread from tiny fabricators to large foundries.
- The survey's biggest saving options: switching furnaces from furnace oil to PNG or electric, excess air control, furnace temperature control and inverter welding machines.

## What the OEM supplier form asks, and where each answer comes from

1. Electricity in kWh by month: your DHBVN bills.
2. Diesel for the DG set in litres: fuel purchase slips, less stock in the tank at year end.
3. Furnace fuels by month: furnace oil, LPG, PNG or pet coke invoices.
4. Scope 1 and Scope 2 in tonnes CO2e, with the factors named.
5. Output: parts or tonnes shipped to that OEM, so it can work out a figure per part.
6. Plans to cut emissions: a fuel switch or furnace upgrade, with dates.

## Worked example: a sheet metal press shop with a paint oven, one month

- Grid power: 40,000 kWh x 0.675 kg = 27.0 t CO2 (Scope 2)
- DG set: 1,500 L diesel x 2.645 kg = 3.97 t CO2 (Scope 1)
- Paint oven: 1,200 kg LPG x 2.98 kg = 3.58 t CO2 (Scope 1)
- Total: 34.5 t CO2 for 180 t of pressings shipped, about 0.19 t CO2 per tonne from the plant's own energy
- The steel sheet comes on top. At 1.15 t of sheet per tonne of pressings, the mill's figure per tonne of sheet matters far more than your power bill

Quantities are an example. Factors: CEA grid factor for FY 2025-26 and IPCC 2006 fuel defaults. Use your mill's figure for the sheet; the 1.15 yield is an example.

## What Senseible does here

Upload a year of DHBVN bills, DG diesel slips and furnace fuel invoices, and Senseible returns the monthly Scope 1 and 2 figures an OEM form asks for, each line linked to the bill it came from.

- [Supplier evidence for your OEMs](https://senseible.earth/scope-3-supplier-evidence)
- [Faridabad forging: furnace oil to PNG](https://senseible.earth/answers/faridabad-forging-unit-furnace-oil-to-png)
- [Splitting emissions by machine hours](https://senseible.earth/answers/allocate-plant-emissions-by-machine-hours)
- [DG set diesel in Scope 1](https://senseible.earth/answers/brsr-dg-set-diesel-energy-and-scope-1)

Sources: [TERI and DESL, Cluster profile: Faridabad mixed engineering cluster (SAMEEEKSHA; data 2011 to 12, World Bank, GEF and SIDBI project)](https://sameeeksha.org/pdf/clusterprofile/Faridabad_mixed_engineering_cluster.pdf), [SAMEEEKSHA, Faridabad mixed engineering cluster summary](https://sameeeksha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128&Itemid=502), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy, Tables 1.2 and 1.4](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html), [CEA CO2 Baseline Database, version 22.0](https://cea.nic.in/cdm-co2-baseline-view?mappingId=234&lang=en)

Last reviewed 2026-10-30. Cluster data is from 2011 to 12. Update if a newer Faridabad profile is published.