Hydropower plant - reservoir (hydropower plant construction - reservoir)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. This is an immobile infrastructure representing the construction of a hydropower plant reservoir. The infrastructure is based on a representative sample of various types of dams from 52 reservoir power plants with an annual gross production output of 17.8 TWh and an installed capacity of 9 130 MW. The lifetime of the dam can be between 100 to 150 years while for the rest of the materials the lifetime is 80 years. Users should consult the specific geography of this infrastructure for more detailed information. The process includes all materials necessary to construct it electricity and water consumption during manufacturing and decommission. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.