Emission Factor

Geothermal power plant - undefined type (geothermal power plant construction)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is geothermal power plant construction, undefined type. The Reference Product is geothermal power plant, undefined type. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a geothermal power plant. The infrastructure covers all types of geothermal power plants except for binary cycle (Hot-Dry-Rock) geothermal plants. It represents a plant with three deep boreholes with depths between 5,000 m and 6,000 m that has a flow rate of 224 m3/h, a land area of 7,500 m2 and a lifetime of 20 years. The process includes all materials necessary to construct it, infrastructure and energy used in the machinery during the construction. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/6113/documentation

PropertyValue
NameGeothermal power plant - undefined type (geothermal power plant construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2008
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/number
Scopes3.1, 3.2
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_geothermal_power_plant_undefined_type_geothermal_power_plant_construction_undefined_type
UUID
cb43c32a-e67a-4201-a62f-2b1ef610197d
Code Snippet
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