Factory Energy Mix,
Shared Between Brands

The Factory Energy Data Exchange is a data collection program for factory energy data. Each factory maintains one page with its yearly energy consumption per source, which every brand producing there can access. Because the data is collected once and shared, it reduces duplicate outreach across the industry and extends primary-data coverage into Tier 2 and beyond.

This is a free data collection program for brands, which means Carbonfact manages the outreach, follow-up, and data entry. The only requirement is to send an introduction email to the factory with Carbonfact in cc. Across past introduction campaigns, approximately 75% of contacted factories have submitted data.

In that case, the data is already available and is shared between the participating brands. This is the core of the collective model: factory energy data is collected once, and every brand producing there benefits from the data already collected.

No. Access to the network's data is reserved for brands that contribute to it, either by introducing their factories or by sharing energy data already in their Carbonfact account, which is shared with the network in anonymized form. This reciprocity is what keeps the network growing for every participant.

Every submission is reviewed for plausibility before publication. Values inconsistent with the factory's processes, unexplained year-over-year changes, and figures outside the range of comparable sites are flagged and verified with the factory. This review is not a third-party audit, and energy bills you upload yourself always take precedence over network data in your calculations.

The factory's energy mix is used to build a factory-specific emission factor, which is combined with the typical energy consumption of each manufacturing process. Products are allocated their share based on the processes they undergo, without requiring machine-level data from the factory.

Only if the factory has chosen to share its data openly. In all other cases, access must be requested and the factory decides. The same confidentiality applies in both directions: no brand can see which factories another brand uses or has introduced.