Electric Utilities Methodology

The Assessing low-Carbon Transition (ACT) Electric Utilities sector methodology is a product of the ACT initiative, which assesses an organisation’s readiness to transition to a low-carbon economy and aims to drive action by companies to move to a well-below 2-degree pathway in terms of their climate strategy, business model, investments, operations, and GHG emissions management. The ACT initiative, a joint project between ADEME and CDP, has created an overarching framework and sector-specific methodologies, of which the electric utilities methodology is one. 

The ACT electric utilities methodology includes principles, scope, boundaries and performance indicators as well as performance, narrative and trend scoring explanations. The methodology was developed through research and multi-stakeholder dialogue. ACT builds on the Sectoral Decarbonization Approach (SDA), developed by the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), to compare a company’s alignment to the low-carbon pathway.