Emission Factor

Electricity - medium voltage (market for electricity - medium voltage)

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Emission factor summary

Electricity emission factor (Scope 3 - without transmission and distribution losses) using allocation - cut-off system model. Scope 3 emissions happen in the supply chain of the electricity production including the extraction/transport/transformation of the fuel as well as infrastructure/maintenance/other chemicals and consumables necessary to the functioning of the power plant. Retrieved from ecoinvent v3.8.

PropertyValue
NameElectricity - medium voltage (market for electricity - medium voltage)
SectorEnergy
CategoryElectricity
Sourceecoinvent
Region
Unit Type
Year
2021
Year Released
2021
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kWh
LCA Activity
upstream
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
electricity-supply_grid-source_market_for_electricity_medium_voltage
UUID
59cc3b17-ef47-42a8-898b-1d0df5003c72
Code Snippet
Request
Response
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.climatiq.io/estimate \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $CLIMATIQ_API_KEY" \
--data '{
"emission_factor": {
"activity_id": "electricity-supply_grid-source_market_for_electricity_medium_voltage",
"source": "ecoinvent",
"region": "CI",
"year": 2021,
"source_lca_activity": "upstream",
"data_version": "^0"
},
"parameters": {
"energy": 1000,
"energy_unit": "kWh"
}
}'
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