Emission factor from CoM
Electricity consumption - IEA, no trade adjustment
Egypt · Well-to-use · 2020 onwards
Each kilowatt-hour drawn from the grid from 2020 counts as 0.669 kg CO₂e: 0.48 at the power plants, 0.0808 for the fuel supplied to the power plants (estimated) and 0.108 for the electricity lost on the network (estimated).
Value from 2020 onwards
0.669kgCO₂e/kWh
Location-based · Consumption mix · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · Mixed GWP vintages
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventoriesEstimatedAn estimate by open-climate.ai, not a number the publisher printed. Where an electricity publisher prints generation only, we add the grid losses and the fuel chain behind it, computed by one stated rule from the publisher's own generation value and public statistics. Learn more Summed by open-climate.ai from 3 parts, 2 of them estimated by us
- Region
- Egypt EG
- Boundary
- Well-to-use
- Data quality
- LowRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.669 comes from
- Scope 20.4871.8%
- Fuel supplyEstimatedAn estimate by open-climate.ai, not a number the publisher printed. Where an electricity publisher prints generation only, we add the grid losses and the fuel chain behind it, computed by one stated rule from the publisher's own generation value and public statistics. Learn moreDerived by open-climate.aiScope 3, cat. 30.080812.1%
- Network lossesEstimatedAn estimate by open-climate.ai, not a number the publisher printed. Where an electricity publisher prints generation only, we add the grid losses and the fuel chain behind it, computed by one stated rule from the publisher's own generation value and public statistics. Learn moreDerived by open-climate.aiScope 3, cat. 30.10816.1%
Σ 0.669: open-climate.ai adds up the three parts. CoM prints generation. open-climate.ai estimates fuel supply and network losses from other published figures.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 2 0.48 Scope 3, category 3 0.188
You buy the energy, so its generation is your Scope 2.
The fuel behind it and the energy lost on the way to you are Scope 3, category 3.
The factor, standardised
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Electricity › Grid electricity · Egypt · per kWh · Average
Well-to-use · Location-based · Excl. biogenic CO₂
- BoundaryWell-to-useOne unit of energy as consumed, priced from the well to the point of use: the well-to-tank chain plus the burn for a fuel; generation, its well-to-tank and the transmission and distribution losses for a delivered carrier (electricity, steam or hot water, chilled water). Learn more
- Well-to-use
- Fuel supply, generation and network losses
- Calculation approachLocation-based uses the average grid mix where the electricity was consumed; market-based uses the supplier contract or the residual mix. The two can differ by an order of magnitude on the same kilowatt-hour, so they are never interchangeable. Learn more
- Location-based, consumption mix
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- Mixed IPCC reports, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; set from CoM's method notes
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic methane, land-use change and biogenic CO₂; excl. biogenic CO₂ counts biogenic methane but not the other two; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
- Life cycle
- Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not applicableEnd of life: not applicable
Low quality · Open licence · 1990 to now
All values
31 values, one per year back to 1990. Every one is location-based, consumption mix, biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded, Mixed GWP100, so the years compare directly.
2020 onwards0.669Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai
| AppliesYears | TotalkgCO₂e/kWh |
|---|---|
| 0.669Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.726Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.771Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.826Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.824Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.774Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.769Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.734Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.734Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.68Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.702Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.77Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.765Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.727Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.777Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.792Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.824Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.671Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.667Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.646Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.587Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.726Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.74Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.697Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.689Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.734Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.766Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.838Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.883Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.88Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.867Derived by open-climate.ai |
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What this number covers
The path of one kilowatt-hour, from the fuel to your meter. Every step on it is counted.
Fuel supply
Extracting, processing and transporting the fuel the plants burn
IncludedScope 3, cat. 30.0808Generation
Producing the electricity at the power plants that make up the mix
IncludedScope 20.48Network losses
Electricity lost between the plant and your meter, which still had to be generated
IncludedScope 3, cat. 30.108Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0.669
Outside this boundary
- Building the power plants
- Building the grid
Capital goods and infrastructure sit outside every well-to-use factor, in every library.
Gases
CoM publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e leaves biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon out; methane from biogenic sources is counted.
From CoM's record to a comparable factor
CoM publishes one of the three parts; open-climate.ai estimated the others and added them all up to this total. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
The total and its parts
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About this factor
Source and licence
- Value
- Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
- Publisher
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Covenant of Mayors)
- Library
- CoM 2024
- Published
- 17 January 2024
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
© European Union, 1995-2026. Covenant of Mayors default emission factors, European Commission Joint Research Centre, 2024 edition (DOI 10.2905/JRC.4800KC0, 10.2905/JRC.70BBR68). Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (CC BY 4.0). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/covenant_of_mayors/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-covenantofmayors-electricity_consumption-eg-kwh-well_to_use-ea54991c/?v=efv1-9421bc4c9cf6158068649047ad5690a7
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