Carbon reporting from metered consumption, not estimates

Scope 1 covers gas burned on your sites. Scope 2 covers purchased electricity, reported both location based and market based. Purely Insights builds both from the consumption already flowing into the platform: half-hourly electricity, gas and water at meter level, refreshed roughly every 30 minutes after settlement, with non-half-hourly meters covered by AMR (daily refresh) and supplier billing data. Nothing is back-filled from floor area or headcount. Where a read is missing, anomaly detection flags it rather than smoothing over the gap.

Conversion factors are the latest published DEFRA set, refreshed annually, applied consistently across every site in the account. Because the platform consolidates every site under one login regardless of supplier, a multi-supplier portfolio produces one emissions position rather than several partial ones. Figures aggregate hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and annually, and drill down to a single half-hour, so a reported annual tonnage can be traced back to the meter and the interval that produced it. Historical data runs up to six years where supplier data flows allow.

SECR, ESOS Phase 4, ISO 50001 evidence pack and CDP exports all draw on the one consumption record, so the number in a board pack matches the number in a compliance submission. Exports are available as CSV, Excel, PDF and board-pack PDF, with a read-only JSON API on request for finance, BI, ESG and BMS integration. Role-based access and an audit trail sit over the top, with unlimited users per account and permissions set per site, group or function, which matters when a reporting sign-off has to be attributable.

Data is held in the UK, the customer owns it, and Purely Energy holds Cyber Essentials Plus with ISO 27001 certification in progress. If supply moves elsewhere the consumption record does not disappear: the dashboard goes read-only at the end of supply and exports stay live for 12 months, in CSV, JSON and Excel, so a reporting year that straddles a contract change can still be closed out. Capacity runs from 1 to 1,000+ meters per account, with sub-meters in addition.

A carbon total on its own does not tell a board whether performance improved. Insights runs weather-adjusted consumption using heating and cooling degree days (HDD and CDD), so year-on-year and month-on-month comparisons are like for like rather than a reflection of a mild winter. Site-against-site benchmarking with quartile and outlier views shows which buildings carry the emissions, and anomaly detection on weekend usage, overnight spikes, missing reads and holiday baselines catches the consumption that inflates a reported figure without doing any work.

Where sub-metering is installed, wireless and clip-on sensors report at circuit, sub-circuit and asset level, which is what turns a site-level tonnage into an attributable one. Purely supplies, installs and owns the sensors, so the hardware sits on Purely's balance sheet and the data sits with the customer, with no lease and no capex. In one published anonymised example, a food and drink manufacturer on a single site consuming 12 GWh used sub-metering across three production lines to isolate a refrigeration setpoint drift, fixed in one shift, taking baseload down 11 percent year-on-year.

Purely Insights is included free with every Purely Energy supply contract. There is no per-meter fee, no kit-rental fee, no minimum portfolio size and no hidden uplift on the unit rate. The platform is funded by a disclosed broker margin on supply of 0.3p to 1.0p per kWh depending on volume and term, shown line by line on every quote and renewal. There is never a separate Insights invoice. For context, standalone third-party monitoring typically costs £15 to £80 per meter per month.

Getting reporting-grade data running is a short exercise. Contract sign to live dashboard takes 7 to 14 working days. On the customer side the work is signing the supply contract, handing over a portfolio list or the latest bills, accepting the data-access letters of authority and nominating alert recipients. Because historical data can reach up to six years where supplier data flows allow, a first SECR or CDP submission does not have to wait for a full year of new readings to accumulate.