Life Cycle Emissions Factors for Electricity Generation Technologies
Description
This dataset consists of a table containing the distribution of literature estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for the following electricity generation and storage technologies: biopower, coal, concentrating solar power, geothermal, hydrogen storage, hydropower, lithium-ion battery storage, natural gas, nuclear, ocean, oil, photovoltaic, pumped-storage hydropower, and wind. Quartile estimates of life cycle emissions factors in units of grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour of generation (g CO2e/kWh) are provided for the following life cycle stages: one-time upstream, ongoing combustion, ongoing non-combustion, one-time downstream, and total. Literature estimates were compiled by the LCA Harmonization study and subsequent updates, as detailed in the factsheet which accompanies this dataset, https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf.
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- greenhouse-gas-emissions
- natural-gas
- photovoltaic
- battery-energy-storage
- bioenergy
- life-cycle-assessment
- electricity
- water-power
- oil
- concentrating-solar-power
- wind-energy
- coal
- hydropower
- nuclear-power