Our Greenhouse Gas Disclosure

Per the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, ITility will explain the assumptions made in the GHG calculations reported here. Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions were calculated from one year’s worth of gas and electricity bills, where possible. Bills included one year’s worth of monthly utility data. For utility bills which included incomplete monthly data from 2022, but some monthly data from 2023, a sum of 12 months data from the earliest available month in 2022 was considered representative of year-long usage in 2022 as operations have not significantly grown or lessened since 2022 for any reported site. This assumption is supported by the comparable energy usage between the same months in 2022 and 2023 when available. The Farm Center only had bills available for electricity, while no bills were available for the Headquarters site, as both electric and gas are wrapped into a lump bill with rent each month. As such, estimates were made based on approximate square footage for areas where data was missing using the factors included in the EPA’s GHG calculation tool. Because the farm center consists of only two ITility-owned buildings which use gas and electricity, the square footage was calculated from these buildings alone rather than the entire site. Similarly, the square footage of the Headquarters site was estimated based on the square footage in the site plan of the building. An aerial view from Google Earth was used to determine the approximate square footage of the Research and Development center for completeness, although this was not needed for direct use in estimation calculations as both gas and electric bills were available.