Emission Factor

Photovoltaic cell - multi-Si wafer (photovoltaic cell production)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is photovoltaic cell production, multi-Si wafer. The reference product is photovoltaic cell, multi-Si wafer. This product represents 1 m2 of photovoltaic cell. A photovoltaic cell converts light into electricity and is used as the building block for large solar panels. Multi-Si, or polycrystalline silicon consists of many small silicon crystals compared to single-Si that consist of one single continuous crystal. Multi-Si cells are usually less efficient than single-Si photovoltaic cells The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/974/documentation.

PropertyValue
NamePhotovoltaic cell - multi-Si wafer (photovoltaic cell production)
SectorEquipment
CategoryElectrical Equipment
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2004
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/m2
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
electrical_equipment-type_photovoltaic_cell_multi_si_wafer_photovoltaic_cell_production_multi_si_wafer
UUID
267220fa-b292-4e65-aace-20d5a58e9511
Code Snippet
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