See your network's CO₂ avoided, CO₂ emitted, grid intensity and renewable share in Monta Hub — and how to read the numbers for sustainability reporting.
The Sustainability dashboard shows the environmental impact of charging across your network — how much CO₂ your drivers avoided versus driving a petrol or diesel car, how much CO₂ the charging itself emitted, and how clean the energy was. It's built to help you report on CO₂ and renewable-energy performance. This dashboard is rolling out gradually and may not be available to every operator yet.
Where to find it
Open Dashboards in Monta Hub and select the Sustainability dashboard. Choose a time period at the top — for example this quarter, year to date, or the last 12 months — and every figure and chart updates to that period.
The headline figures
- CO₂ avoided — estimated CO₂ your charging saved compared with the same distance driven in an equivalent combustion (petrol/diesel) vehicle.
- CO₂ emitted — the CO₂ produced generating the electricity you delivered, based on the local grid's carbon intensity.
- Energy delivered — total energy (kWh) charged in the period.
- Average grid intensity — how clean the electricity was on average, in grams of CO₂ per kWh, weighted by how much energy each session used.
- Renewable share — the share of delivered energy that came from renewable sources.
- Smart-charging avoided — extra CO₂ avoided by shifting charging to cleaner hours through smart charging.
Each figure also shows how it compares with the previous period.
Impact over time
A chart plots CO₂ emitted and CO₂ avoided across the period, with a line beneath showing data coverage — how much of your energy the figures are based on.
Breakdown
A table breaks the same figures down by Location, Account, Country, AC / DC, or individual charge point. For each row you see energy, CO₂ avoided, CO₂ emitted, grid intensity, coverage and number of sessions — so you can see which sites or countries drive your footprint.
Coverage and "Not configured"
Not every session has the data needed for every figure — some countries may not have a grid-intensity value, for example. Rather than show a misleading "0", the dashboard shows "Not configured" when it can't stand behind a number, and each figure shows the share of your energy it's based on (its coverage). Low coverage means the figure represents only part of your network.
How the numbers are calculated
- CO₂ emitted uses the actual carbon intensity of the local grid, applied to the energy you delivered. In many countries Monta uses detailed hourly grid data for the specific grid region (bidding zone) from a third-party grid-data source, so a charge is measured against how clean the grid really was at the hour it happened. Where that live data isn’t available for a country, a country-level average is used as a fallback.
- CO₂ avoided is what an equivalent petrol/diesel car would have emitted over the same distance, minus what your charging actually emitted. So the cleaner the grid your drivers charge on, the more CO₂ is avoided. On an unusually dirty grid this figure can be small or even negative.
- Renewable share and average grid intensity are energy-weighted, so a network mixing cleaner and dirtier regions reflects the blend it actually delivered rather than a simple average.
The dashboard shows the methodology version and the data sources it used, so the figures are traceable for reporting.
Good to know
- Where live hourly data exists, a charge reflects the grid intensity at the hour it happened; elsewhere a country-level figure is used. The dashboard’s network averages currently use a rolling grid-intensity figure, so a past period’s totals can shift slightly as that figure updates.
- The figures are designed to support insight and reporting; check them against your specific reporting requirements before any external submission.
Reading the numbers for reporting
Because these figures are meant to support CO₂ and renewable reporting, the dashboard is explicit about how solid each number is:
- Coverage, per number — each figure shows how much of your energy it is based on, split by the metric it applies to (combustion baseline, CO₂ measurement, and energy-source attribution) rather than one blended figure.
- How the CO₂ was measured — the CO₂ figure shows the share measured from detailed hourly grid data, from a grid-region (bidding-zone) average, and from a country constant. The more that comes from hourly data, the closer it is to a real measurement.
- Quality over time — data quality is shown per sub-period, so a dip during part of the period isn’t hidden by an average.
- Scope 2 basis: location-based — CO₂ emitted, grid intensity and renewable share are location-based (the grid average for your region at the time of charging). They are not a market-based claim: they reflect the grid you drew from, not energy you procured or guarantees of origin you hold.
CO₂ avoided is “project accounting”. Under the GHG Protocol, avoided emissions are disclosed separately from your Scope 1, 2 and 3 totals — they cannot be netted against them. Avoided emissions are also shared across the driver, the site owner, the energy supplier and Monta. Carry these caveats wherever you report the numbers.
CO₂ avoided vs Smart-charging avoided are two different things: CO₂ avoided is the benefit of the session not happening in a petrol/diesel car (all sessions); Smart-charging avoided is the extra benefit of shifting a charge into cleaner hours (only smart-charged sessions).
The dashboard shows its methodology version together with a changelog — each release lists what changed and, crucially, whether it moved figures that were already published. If it did, a number you reported in an earlier period may need revisiting. While a version is marked as a draft, use the figures internally and wait for a published version before quoting them in an external disclosure.