# What grid emission factor should a supplier in Serbia use?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/serbia-grid-emission-factor-for-suppliers

Serbia's power comes mostly from lignite, with hydro making up most of the rest, so its grid factor is high, roughly 0.7 kg CO2 per kWh or a little above. Use the official or IEA figure for the reporting year and name it.

## Which figure

- Location based: national average for the year.
- Market based: guarantees of origin for hydro or wind, if you buy them.
- State both and the year.

## Why it matters

EU customers compare suppliers. A lignite grid can double a factory's footprint against a supplier on a cleaner grid.

## Lowering it

Rooftop solar and renewable contracts cut market based Scope 2. Keep meter data and certificates.

## 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.

- [Smederevo coil](https://senseible.earth/answers/smederevo-steel-hot-rolled-coil-cbam)
- [Balkans electricity and CBAM](https://senseible.earth/answers/western-balkans-electricity-exports-cbam)
- [Electricity bill footprint](https://senseible.earth/climate-intelligence/how-to-calculate-carbon-footprint-electricity-bills)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance](https://ghgprotocol.org/scope-2-guidance), [IEA, electricity and emissions data](https://www.iea.org)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.