What is the total energy consumption per year?

Total energy consumption in MWh, combusted and purchased combined

The requested figure is the total energy consumption of the undertaking in one year, expressed in MWh. It is the sum of all energy consumed within the undertaking's own activities: fuel combusted directly (for vehicles, machinery or heating) plus purchased electricity, heat, steam and cooling. This concerns the total before breakdown by source — the question about the share of renewable energy is a separate data point, and these two figures must be internally consistent: the renewable share can never be larger than this total.

Those who have the electricity and gas invoices at hand, plus the fuel receipts or invoices from their own vehicle fleet, can usually add up this figure within a quarter of an hour. If a part is missing — for example consumption at a location that only opened halfway through the year — an estimate based on the remaining months is more common than leaving the figure blank. Note the unit: some invoices provide kWh or GJ, and these must be converted to MWh before being added together. This figure is also related to the question about direct greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1), because combusted fuel appears in both data points, and to indirect emissions from purchased energy (scope 2), which is calculated directly from the purchased part of this total.

Where this data point comes from: VSME basic module

This data point comes from the basic module of the VSME, the voluntary reporting standard of EFRAG for non-listed SME undertakings. The basic module requests total energy consumption in MWh as the starting point for the energy and emissions section, and links to it the share of renewable energy as a separate figure within the same table.