# Is power from a captive coal plant in an Indonesian industrial park Scope 1 or Scope 2?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/indonesia-captive-coal-power-scope-1-or-scope-2

It depends on who owns or controls the plant. If your company owns or operates it, the coal burnt is Scope 1. If a park operator or another company runs it and sells you power, it is Scope 2, calculated with that plant's own emission rate rather than the national grid average.

## Owned or controlled

Report the coal combustion in Scope 1 using the coal's own carbon content or the IPCC default for its type. Do not count the same power again in Scope 2.

## Bought from the park

Report it in Scope 2. Because the park is not on the public grid, a location based figure should use the supplying plant's emission rate, from its fuel use and output. The Java and Bali grid average does not describe it.

## Ask the park for

- Annual coal use and its heating value or carbon content.
- Net electricity sent out.
- Emissions per MWh sold, with the year.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads each site's monthly electricity bills into a dated, fingerprinted Scope 2 record. Grid factors outside India are entered from the official source for the country and year, and are labelled with that source.

- [Jakarta data centre on a coal grid](https://senseible.earth/answers/jakarta-data-centre-coal-grid-scope-2)
- [Captive coal plant, Category 3](https://senseible.earth/answers/category-3-for-captive-coal-power-plant)
- [Free grid factors by country](https://senseible.earth/answers/free-grid-emission-factors-by-country)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance](https://ghgprotocol.org/scope-2-guidance), [GHG Protocol Corporate Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.