# Our boiler is run by a contractor and a tenant shares the site: whose energy goes in the Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM)?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/higg-fem-contractor-boiler-tenant-canteen-energy

Your contractor's boiler fuel goes in, because the Higg FEM guide says boilers must be reported even when a third party manages them. A tenant's energy stays out if you do not own or control the tenant. Your own canteen and separated offices count as domestic energy, not production.

## What the guide says

- Facilities with onsite boilers must report them as onsite boilers, regardless of third-party management. The fuel used in the boiler must be selected as an energy source.
- The form counts energy within the site's physical boundary and operations under your business control: owned, operated or directly leased.
- Energy used by facilities or tenants on site that you do not own or control should be excluded from your reporting.

## Domestic or production

- Domestic energy is used in non-production areas, for example employee washrooms, office areas separated from production, the canteen and kitchen, security posts, outdoor lighting and a medical centre.
- Production energy is used in production areas and processes, including onsite steam or power for production, effluent treatment and production-area lighting and cooling.
- If industrial and domestic wastewater are treated together, the energy of the combined plant goes under production.
- The question on tracking domestic and production energy apart is a Level 1 question. If you cannot split them, you fill in one table of total energy by source.

## Contract papers worth having

- Our suggestion, not a Cascale rule: the contractor's fuel purchase bills or a monthly statement of fuel burnt for your boiler, in your site's name.
- Our suggestion, not a Cascale rule: a sub meter or a written method for splitting a shared electricity connection with a tenant.

## One shared connection, one boiler

- Boiler run by a contractor, coal bought by the contractor and billed to you: report the coal, as your boiler fuel
- Tenant canteen under a separate licence on one shared meter: the guide says tenant energy you do not own or control should be excluded, but it does not cover a shared meter, so ask Worldly support
- Your own canteen and a separated office block: domestic energy; the rest of the connection: production

The setup is an example. The rules are the guide's, except the shared meter, which the guide does not cover.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so fuel and electricity can be totalled for your own site by month. Standard reads of bills do not split a shared meter, though sub-meters can be set up on request. Senseible cannot tell you who controls a tenant.

- [Higg FEM energy and GHG data](https://senseible.earth/answers/higg-fem-energy-and-emissions-data)
- [One Higg FEM per unit or per company?](https://senseible.earth/answers/higg-fem-one-assessment-per-site-or-entity)
- [Textile industry](https://senseible.earth/industries/textile)

Sources: [Cascale, Higg FEM How to Higg Guide 2026 (English)](https://howtohigg.cascale.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Higg-FEM-How-to-Higg-Guide-2026-October-1st-2026-English-Final.pdf)

Last reviewed 2026-11-07. From the 2026 guide (energy question 1 note, intro on domestic and production energy, and the tracking guidance). Splits of shared meters are our suggestion and are labelled so.