IGES
About IGES
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is an international research organisation that publishes electricity grid emission factors based on national power generation data to support greenhouse gas accounting and reporting.
Visit IGES websiteIGES List of Grid Emission Factors v11.6
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| Description | The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is an international research organisation that publishes electricity grid emission factors based on national power generation data to support greenhouse gas accounting and reporting. |
| Source type | Non-profit research organisation |
| Original dataset URL | URL |
| Year released | 2025 |
| Geography | China, India, Vietnam |
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| Type of data | Activity-based |
| Emission results | CO2 |
| Data Transformation | The source reports emissions in tCO2/MWh, which have been converted to kgCO2/kWh to ensure consistency. |
License
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| Type of license | Public data. Attribution required. No commercial usage. |
Data quality
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| Data quality assurance | Vetted by Climatiq. For further information on data quality assurance, see: https://www.climatiq.io/methodology#Data-Quality |
| Quality flag(s) | Partial factor The source reports emission factors in CO2 only and does not include the impact of other GHGs. |
Methodology
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| IPCC AR method |
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| Methodology description | A grid emission factor is a CO₂ emission factor (tCO₂/MWh) associated with each unit of electricity provided by an electricity system. It is used to determine baseline emissions for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in the renewable energy sector (hydro, wind, solar PV, geothermal, etc.) and the waste heat/gas recovery sector. The IGES Grid Emission Factor Database provides two types of grid emission factor: CDM-based grid emission factors, calculated and used by individual registered CDM projects. Data is extracted from the UNFCCC website and provided in the IGES CDM Project Database. For further information on individual project activities, refer to the CDM Project Database. Official grid emission factors, published either by host country governments or as CDM standardised baselines approved by the CDM Executive Board. Factors from host country governments are taken from publicly available sources; CDM standardised baselines are taken from the CDM website. Climatiq has extracted Operating Margin (OM) and Build Margin (BM) data from the "EFfromCountriesOrSB" sheet, which contains official grid emission factors from host country governments ("National publication") and CDM standardised baselines ("CDM SB"): OM (Operating Margin) is the emission factor representing the group of existing power plants whose current electricity generation would be affected by the proposed CDM project activity. BM (Build Margin) is the emission factor representing the group of prospective power plants whose construction and future operation would be affected by the proposed CDM project activity. For full details, see the IGES List of Grid Emission Factors: https://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/list-grid-emission-factor/en. |
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