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Reporting Tools

The Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program has developed spreadsheet-based tools to assist reporters in calculating their emissions and emission reductions.

Note: All inventory tools were created in Microsoft Office Excel 2003. Users of later versions of Excel should save each calculation tools as an Excel 97-2003 Workbook (.xls file extension) prior to opening it. Alternatively, you may enable Compatibility Mode as the default mode for your version of Excel. For more information about the benefits and drawbacks of using Compatibility Mode, please see Microsoft’s explanation.

Note: As tools become available their status will change from (Under Development) to (Available).

Other Tools Available:

Simplified Emissions Inventory Tool (SEIT)

The Simplified Emissions Inventory Tool (SEIT) is intended to help you prepare a preliminary estimate of your entity's emissions. (Note: This is version 2.5 of SEIT posted April 2011. It supersedes version 2.4 of SEIT that was released in May 2010). You may use SEIT to:

  • provide a preliminary estimate of your emissions;
  • determine whether your entity is a small or large emitter; and
  • identify de minimis emissions sources, which can be excluded from your entity’s emissions inventory.

Emission Inventory Tools

Inventory calculation tools are designed to help you fill out Schedules I and II of Form EIA-1605 by calculating your emissions and carbon sequestration resulting from your entity’s operations, including fuel consumption, electricity use, industrial processes, forestry, and agriculture.

Direct Emissions

Indirect Emissions

Changes in Carbon Stocks

Agricultural Emissions

Industrial Process Emissions

Energy Sector Emissions

High GWP Gases

Emission Reduction Tools

If you are submitting a Reporting Year report, reduction calculation tools are designed to assist you in calculating emission reductions and carbon storage required for completion of Schedule III.

CEMS Emission Allocation Tool

The CEMS Emission Allocation Tool is an excel-based spreadsheet tool, developed by EIA, designed to help you allocate emissions from a continued emissions monitoring system (CEMS).

 

Subentities Tool

The Subentities Tool is a PowerPoint document, developed by EIA, designed to help you determine whether or not you should delineate components of your entity as subentities. In addition to explaining what subentities are and why they are necessary or desirable, the tool provides guidance on how you can subdivide your entity into appropriate subentities.

CarbOn Management Evaluation Tool (COMET-VR)

 

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, in collaboration with researchers at the Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University, developed the CarbOn Management Evaluation Tool (COMET-VR) to help entities obtain default estimates of annual soil carbon fluxes for purposes of reporting under the 1605(b) Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program.

COMET-VR is a web-based calculation tool that allows users to estimate changes in mineral soil carbon storage on cultivated lands for most regions and cropping systems prevalent in the United States. The COMET-VR system has a simple interface where users provide basic information about a parcel of land including soil characteristics and land management and COMET-VR provides estimates of annual soil carbon flux and the corresponding uncertainty. COMET-VR may be treated as an A rated method if uncertainty estimates are less than or equal to 15 percent, or a B rated method if uncertainty estimates are over 15 percent.

Carbon Online Estimation (COLE)

Carbon Online Estimation (COLE) is a user-friendly model developed by the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS) that provides customized estimates of forest carbon for user-selected areas of the conterminous United States. The model allows users to designate an area of interest, and currently provides area, growing-stock volume, and carbon pool estimates for the conterminous United States.