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What's New in Sustainability: Track Your Energy Consumption (2025 release wave 2)

Energy consumption tracking in Business Central Sustainability (2025 release wave 2): recording kilowatt hours from the sustainability journal or purchase documents, with energy source defaults and required-value rules set on the sustainability account subcategory. Includes a live demo of setup and posting.

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  1. 0:00 Why Energy Tracking Matters for ESG Compliance
  2. 1:12 Energy Consumption Tracking: Fields and Sources
  3. 2:27 Energy Source Setup and Mandatory Requirements
  4. 3:57 Posting Rules for Energy and Emissions
  5. 4:36 Live Demo: Setting Up and Posting Energy Data
  6. 6:15 Resources and Closing
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Overview

The video explains why energy tracking matters for ESG compliance, noting that regulations such as CSRD require energy reporting. It then covers the new fields and sources for recording energy consumption in kilowatt hours, either from actual consumption or from default values for an energy source.

It walks through setting up energy sources and the mandatory-entry rules, the posting rules for energy and emissions, and a live demo of setup and posting. The content is subject to change, as stated in the launch edition 2025 release wave 2 disclaimer.

Key points

  • Energy consumption in kilowatt hours can be tracked from the sustainability journal or from purchase documents.
  • Energy source choices include nuclear, solar, wind, power, coal or other sources. Default values are set at sustainability account subcategory level, not account level, and can also be chosen manually on journals and purchase documents.
  • With Energy Value Required enabled on the sustainability account subcategory, a document cannot be posted without an energy value.
  • If Energy Value Required is true and Renewable Energy is false, energy consumption must have a value. If Renewable Energy is true, entering the value is the user’s choice.
  • The Renewable Energy boolean field is not new; it has existed since early in the sustainability module.
  • A field indicates whether the energy source generation is on site or not.
  • A sustainability journal line normally cannot be posted without emissions, but it can be posted with zero emissions if it has an energy value, e.g. when energy was forgotten when emissions were posted.

Features

Feature Status At
Energy Consumption Tracking status not stated, demoed 1:24
Energy Source Selection status not stated, demoed 2:02
Energy Value Required Field status not stated, demoed 3:04
Renewable Energy Field status not stated, demoed 2:52
Energy Posting Without Emissions status not stated 3:57

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

Not found in BC28-30: table “Sustainability Account Subcategory”, page “Sustainability Hub”, page “Chart of Sustainability Accounts”.

Quotes

  • 0:33 “Because of many of uh regulations, for example, CSRD and other require to report energy as well.”
  • 1:24 “You can take track check your energy consumptions in kilowatt hours from sustainability journal or from purchase documents.”
  • 2:27 “if you you can if you choose to enable energy value required you cannot post document without that.”
  • 2:52 “This is a newable energy field. You this is boolean field. You can set to true or false. But this is something what we”
  • 3:14 “renewable energy is false in this case energy consumptions must have value in sustainability journal approaches documents”
  • 3:57 “post energy consump consumption even when emission do not have a value in general without enabling”

Disclaimers in the video

  • 0:05 subject-to-change: Business Central launch edition 2025 release wave 2

Presenters (as heard): Alexander, Jacob Pang.