Improving emission factors for solar ☀️ #6976
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As an example, we could consider looking at installation increase per year and use these numbers to calculate the emission factor dynamically for each year. |
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Relevant papers to investigate: |
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We'd love to gather the discussions on improving emission factors for solar here.
By the time of this writing, we use IPCC (2014) for the global fallback with a value of 45g CO2eq/kWh.
For Europe, we used INCER ACV to calculate the emission factor for each country based on average solar irradiance of the area, giving a range of 25-42g CO2eq/kWh.
Since this production mode is rapidly increasing in capacity across the world, we should investigate if we can find/calculate more up-to-date numbers since efficiency of PV is also increasing.
This is the place to gather and discuss alternative sources, or perhaps consider alternative approaches to calculate more accurate emission factors per country.
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