Free Carbon Reduction Plan and SECR report check

Use this free Report check to test a Carbon Reduction Plan or SECR report before you submit it: copy in its figures and it recalculates electricity and gas with the government conversion factors, checks the total adds up, and lists anything PPN 006 or SECR asks for that is missing. It runs in your browser and saves nothing.

Updated 18 October 2026 by the Carbon Recycling team. Figures use the official UK government conversion factors and are checked against the current gov.uk guidance.

Have your report open next to this page, copy in the figures it gives, and leave the rest blank. The results update as you type. This is an automatic check of the figures you enter, not an assurance review.

1. Which report are you checking?

Carbon Reduction PlanFor PPN 006 or NHS tendersSECR reportThe energy and carbon section of a directors' report

Pick the report type to start. Nothing you type is sent to us or saved.

What the check looks at

Check	How
Electricity and gas tonnes	Your kWh multiplied by the DESNZ factor for the reporting year, compared with the tonnes in the report. A gap over 3% is flagged, with the likely cause.
Factor year	Whether the figures match a different year's factors. DESNZ asks for the set for the calendar year most of your period falls in.
Scope 2 both ways	Location-based must always be there. Market-based uses a REGO tariff, your supplier's figure or the UK residual mix.
The total	Scope 1, 2 and 3 added up and compared with the report's total.
Carbon Reduction Plan contents	The five PPN 006 Scope 3 categories, a baseline year, net zero by 2050, director sign-off and publication.
SECR contents	Total UK energy in kWh, an intensity ratio and a methodology statement.

If it finds a problem

Fix it before the report goes out: a buyer or auditor who spots one wrong figure tends to question the rest. Our kWh to CO2e calculator gives the right Scope 1 and 2 figures for each fuel, and our guide to Carbon Reduction Plans and PPN 006 covers what each section needs. For the two Scope 2 figures, see location-based vs market-based.

How Carbon Recycling helps

Carbon Recycling works out your footprint from your bills and records with the right year's government factors, reports Scope 2 both ways, and produces your Carbon Reduction Plan and SECR figures from the same data, so the checks above pass by design. Every figure shows the factor and year behind it.

Frequently asked questions

Does this tool read my report?

No. You type in the figures your report gives and it checks them. Nothing is uploaded, sent to us or saved, and we don't ask for your name or email.

Is this an audit or an assurance review?

No. It is an automatic check of the arithmetic and of what PPN 006 and SECR ask a report to include. It can't see your bills or confirm your kWh are right, and a clean result doesn't mean anyone has verified your report.

What mistakes does it find?

The common ones: last year's factors used for this year, kWh and MWh mixed up, grid losses counted in Scope 2, gas worked out on a net instead of gross basis, a total that doesn't add up, a market-based figure with no location-based one, and missing parts such as the five PPN 006 Scope 3 categories or an SECR intensity ratio.

Why does it say my market-based figure should be higher?

Without a renewable tariff or your supplier's own figure, the GHG Protocol asks for the residual mix: UK electricity once every renewable claim already sold has been taken out. DESNZ publishes it in its fuel mix disclosure, and for 2025/26 it is about 0.396 kg CO2 per kWh, more than twice the grid average.

My figures are a few per cent out. Is that a problem?

Not always. Differences under 3% are treated as a match, because reports round figures and some cover periods that span two factor years. Larger gaps usually come from a missing bill, the wrong factor year or a unit mix-up.

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