Name: Waste in municipal waste incineration plants (KVA)
Creator: Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU
License: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1993/1798_1798_1798/de

Value per kWh, net calorific value

0.167kgCO₂e/kWh

Net calorific value · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · CO₂ only

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

BAFU sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2023

Region: Switzerland CH
Boundary: Combustion
Data quality: MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence: Open · BAFU terms

Where 0.167 comes from

Fossil emissions
Scope 10.167100%
Biogenic CO₂
Outside the scopes0.165beside

Σ 0.167: the fossil emissions are the total. BAFU reports 0.165 of biogenic CO₂ beside it, never in it.

Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 0.167

You burn the fuel, so its combustion is your Scope 1.

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Fuels › Waste-derived fuels · Switzerland · per kWh · Average

Category: Fuels › Waste-derived fuels; Browse it to compare every publisher's factors
Activity: Waste in municipal waste incineration plants (KVA); BAFU: Abfälle in KVA (2023)
Region: SwitzerlandCH; Not on the record; set from BAFU's coverage
Per unit: kWh; Published as t CO2 / TJ; multiplied by 0.0036 to serve it per kWh
Data type: Average; No supplier named

Combustion · Excl. biogenic CO₂

Boundary: Combustion; Fuel combustion
GWP method: None: the value counts CO₂ alone; CO₂ weighs 1 in every IPCC report, so no GWP applies
CO₂e basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories; All of it is CO₂

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

Data quality: Medium; Rated by us, not by the source
Applies to: Any year; Reference year 2023 · one value; BAFU sets no date window
Origin: Printed by BAFU
Licence: Open · BAFU's terms of use; Free to reuse, with attribution

What this number covers

The path of one kilowatt-hour of this fuel, from the waste it is made from to the boiler.

Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
Burning it
In the boiler or kiln: CO₂ from the fossil and biogenic carbon in the waste, with a little CH₄ and N₂O
0.167

= 0.167 per kWh

Outside this boundary

Producing and delivering the fuel
Making the boiler that burns it
Building the pipelines and the network

BAFU counts only burning the fuel, not producing and delivering it or the things built to extract, move and burn it.

Gases

Fossil CO₂e0.167
Biogenic CO₂e0.165

The CO₂e leaves biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon out; methane from biogenic sources is counted.

From BAFU's record to a comparable factor

BAFU publishes this factor as one record. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

BAFU fields and their standardised form
BAFU field	As printed		Served as
Name	Abfälle in KVA (2023)	→	Waste in municipal waste incineration plants (KVA)
Category	5 Abfälle in KVA und alternative Brennstoffe	→	Fuels › Waste-derived fuels
Total	46.4	→	0.167 kgCO₂e/kWh, combustion
Unit	t CO2 / TJ	→	per kWh, multiplied by 0.0036
GWP	not on the record	→	None: the value counts CO₂ alone
Publication date	22/01/2026	→	Published 22 January 2026; applies to any year

Checks this factor passed

Printed value multiplied by 0.0036 to serve it per kWh.
Unit, region, boundary and method mapped to fixed code lists.

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About this factor

From BAFU

In German

Zur Bestimmung der Emissionsfaktoren (EF) in t CO2 / t wird der Kohlenstoffgehalt des Brenn- oder Treibstoffs bestimmt. Bei vollständiger Verbrennung wird der gesamte Kohlenstoff als Kohlenstoffdioxid (CO2) freigesetzt. Ausgehend von diesem gewichtsbezogenen Emissionsfaktor kann unter Einbezug des Heizwerts der Emissionsfaktor in t CO2 / TJ oder unter Einbezug der Dichte in t CO2 / m3 abgeleitet werden. Abfallbrennstoffe bestehen oft aus Material biogener und fossiler Herkunft. Für die Treibhausgasbilanzierung ist jedoch lediglich der fossile Anteil der CO2-Emissionen massgebend. Daher wird bei Abfallbrennstoffen zusätzlich der fossile Anteil bestimmt und daraus der entsprechende Emissionsfaktor für fossiles CO2 abgeleitet.

Source and licence

Publisher: Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU
Library: BAFU 01-2026
Published: 22 January 2026

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Credit it with this lineBundesamt für Umwelt BAFU, Faktenblatt CO2-Emissionsfaktoren des Treibhausgasinventars der Schweiz, Januar 2026

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Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU, Faktenblatt CO2-Emissionsfaktoren des Treibhausgasinventars der Schweiz, Januar 2026. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/bafu_ch/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-bafuch-wasteincineratedkva-ch-kwh-combustion-48bd60a2/?v=efv1-b00bc53b94aad3ce2e4043d124ecc194

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