Emissions
Emissions
In our daily operations we see a lot of openings for us to reduce our carbon footprint and that of our value chain partners. One example is how we have for years been working hard to reduce the methane emissions released during the management and maintenance of our infrastructure.
Our emissions in the first half of 2024 *
| In kilotonnes CO₂e | First half-year of 2024 | First half-year of 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Scope 1 | ||
| Lease cars and service vehicles | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| Gas usage in buildings | 1.0 | 0.6 |
| Methane | 61.8 | 71.4 |
| Gas usage in installations | 116.5 | 130.1 |
| Refrigerants | 0.1 | - |
| Total scope 1 | 180.5 | 203.3 |
| Scope 2 | ||
| Heat usage in installations | 0.4 | 93.8 |
| Electrictiy usage in buildings | - | - |
| Electricity usage in installations | - | - |
| Electricity usage of leased cars | - | - |
| Total scope 2 | 0.4 | 93.8 |
| Scope 3** | ||
| Business travel by car, air and rail | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Commuting | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| N₂ procurement | 1.3 | 18.4 |
| Total scope 3 | 2.0 | 18.9 |
| Total Scope 1 + 2 + 3 including greening (market based) | 182.9 | 316.0 |
| Greening by Guarantees of Origin | 186.8 | 128.7 |
| Total Scope 1 + 2 + 3 excluding greening (location based) | 369.7 | 444.7 |
| Total Scope 1 + 2 excluding greening (location based) | 367.7 | 425.8 |
Heat usage in installations
In the first half of 2023, EemsEnergyTerminal used the heat connection with the nearby power plant, resulting in emissions of 93.8 kilotons CO2 equivalents (scope 2). By commissioning gas-fired boilers and replacing generators with shore power, the heat connection to the nearby power plant was only used incidentally in the first half of 2024. As a result, emissions from heat utilisation plants were reduced to 0.4 kilotons of CO2 equivalents. The emissions from these gas-fired boilers are included under gas consumption installations (scope 1). The reduction due to shore power instead of generators is included in our scope 2 and fully greened.
N₂ procurement
Quality conversion from imported high-calorific gas to pseudo G-gas takes place using self-produced nitrogen (Scope 2) and nitrogen procured from third parties (Scope 3). The producers from which GTS sources its nitrogen have greened their emissions through the purchase of GOs, reducing emissions of purchased N2 from 18.4 kilotons of CO2 equivalents in the first half of 2023 to 1.3 kilotons of CO2 equivalents in the first half of 2024.