Emission Factor

Electricity - high voltage (electricity production - hydro - pumped storage)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is electricity production, hydro, pumped storage. The reference product is electricity, high voltage. This product represents electrical energy measured in kWh. If electricity is taken from a market for electricity, the transmission infrastructure, country-specific losses and transformation losses (for markets for medium and low voltage) are included. Covers voltages above 24 kV. 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/3532/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameElectricity - high voltage (electricity production - hydro - pumped storage)
SectorEnergy
CategoryElectricity
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1945
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kWh
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
electricity-supply_grid-source_electricity_production_hydro_pumped_storage
UUID
de9f718a-0fa0-4f1b-ab9e-7417eeb80074
Code Snippet
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