Finalize Your Assessment

Before generating your report, your assessment must reach sufficient coverage. This page explains what that means and how to achieve it.

What is the coverage rate?

The coverage rate measures the proportion of your emission sources that are actually documented in your assessment. The BEGES V5 methodology requires a minimum of 95%.

In practice: if your company has 10 possible emission categories and you've documented 9 (either by entering data or excluding with justification), your coverage rate is 90%. You're still missing 1 category.

95% doesn't mean perfection

The goal isn't to have perfect data for every category. A category can be covered by an estimate (e.g., "approximately 5,000 kWh/year based on floor area") or excluded with justification. The important thing is to leave no category empty without explanation.

Strategies to reach 95%

Here are recommended approaches in order of reliability:

  1. Actual data (invoices) — Import your energy invoices via OCR. This is the most reliable and easiest source to audit.
  2. Manual entry with documentation — If you have the data but not the digital invoice (e.g., paper record), enter manually and note the source in a comment.
  3. Estimate — Without exact data, use an estimate. For example: floor area × average consumption per m² for heating. Dekko marks this data as "estimated" in the report.
  4. Justified exclusion — If a category doesn't apply to your activity, exclude it with a clear justification (see below).

Site confirmation

Before finalizing, Dekko asks you to confirm all your sites are up to date. Verify for each site:

  • Employee count is correct for the assessment period.
  • Floor area is entered (useful for report ratios).
  • Heating type is correct.
  • No site has been forgotten (e.g., new office opened during the year).

Excluding a BEGES category

Some categories don't apply to all companies. You can exclude them from your assessment provided you give a justification. Examples:

  • Vehicle fuel — "The company owns no company vehicles. All travel is by public transport or personal vehicles (Scope 3)."
  • Gas heating — "Premises are heated exclusively with electricity. No gas connection."
  • Refrigerants — "No air conditioning or cooling system in the premises."
  • District heating — "The building is not connected to a district heating network."

An exclusion must be verifiable

In case of audit, the exclusion justification must be credible. "I don't know" or "I don't have the data" are not valid exclusion reasons — in that case, use an estimate rather than an exclusion.

Checklist before finalization

Before setting your assessment to "Completed" status, verify that:

  • Coverage rate reaches at least 95%.
  • All sites are confirmed with up-to-date information.
  • OCR data has been verified and validated.
  • Excluded categories have a clear justification.
  • Estimated data is identified as such.
  • The total in tCO2e seems consistent (no x10 or x100 data entry error).

You can always go back

Setting an assessment to "Completed" doesn't lock it permanently. You can switch it back to "Draft" to modify it, then re-complete it. Only report generation creates a frozen snapshot.

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