SECR, the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting framework, requires qualifying UK companies to publish their energy use and associated carbon emissions in their annual Directors Report. The regulation is mandatory. The data is public. The methodology has to be defensible.

For Sarah, sustainability lead at a quoted property company with assets across England and Scotland, the problem was not understanding the requirement. It was the data that was supposed to underpin it.

Electricity figures came from supplier invoices but the invoice periods did not align with the financial year. Gas came from three different suppliers across the portfolio with billing cycles that overlapped and gaps that required estimation. The carbon conversion factors used the previous year’s UK grid intensity figure because no one had updated the template.

The submission went out. It was technically compliant. It was not something Sarah wanted an investor to look at closely.

Monitor Hut connected across the full portfolio ahead of the following financial year. Consumption data flows continuously across all assets, with daily totals and half hourly granularity available on demand. Carbon factors are pre set to the current UK grid intensity of 0.207 kgCO₂e per kWh, with client specific or contractual factors configurable where preferred.