Description
In the context of EU and Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, the JRC provides energy related GHG emission factors. This dataset provides updated CoM emission factors for local energy use and local electricity generation.
Three types of emission factors can be found in this dataset, following two approaches: an activity-based (IPCC) approach and a life-cycle (LC) approach. In the activity-based approach, (i) an emission factor is provided for CO2 emissions (in tonnes of CO2/MWh) only, and (ii) another for GHG emissions including CO2, CH4 and N2O (in tonnes of CO2-eq/MWh); in the LC approach (iii) an emission factor is provided accounting for GHG emissions, namely CO2, N2O and CH4 (in tonnes of CO2-eq/MWh), including upstream (supply chain) emissions.
Further details on the data and methodology used to calculate the emission factors presented in this version can be found in Bastos, Monforti-Ferrario and Melica (2024).
Contact
Contributors
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- Joana Bastos
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- Fabio Monforti-Ferrario
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- Giulia Melica
How to cite
Bastos, Joana; Monforti-Ferrario, Fabio; Melica, Giulia (2024): GHG Emission Factors for Local Energy Use. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/72fac2b2-aa63-4dc1-ade3-4e56b37e4b7c
Keywords
emission inventory energy GHG greenhouse gas emission factor
Data access
Publications
- European Commission
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Abstract
In the context of EU and Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, the JRC provides energy related GHG emission factors. This dataset provides updated CoM emission factors for local energy use and local electricity generation.
Three types of emission factors can be found in this dataset, following two approaches: an activity-based (IPCC) approach and a life-cycle (LC) approach. In the activity-based approach, (i) an emission factor is provided for CO2 emissions (in t CO2/MWh) only, and (ii) another for GHG emissions including CO2, CH4 and N2O (in tCO2-eq/MWh); in the LC approach (iii) an emission factor is provided accounting for GHG emissions including CO2, N2O and CH4 (in t CO2-eq/MWh), including upstream (supply chain) emissions.
Further details on the data and methodology used to calculate the emission factors presented in this version can be found in Bastos, Monforti-Ferrario and Melica (2024).
Temporal coverage
From date | To date |
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1990-01-01 | 2021-01-01 |
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2022-02-07
- Modified date
- 2024-02-07
- Issued date
- 2024-01-17
- Data theme(s)
- Energy, Environment
- Update frequency
- biennial
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/72fac2b2-aa63-4dc1-ade3-4e56b37e4b7c
- Popularity
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