Value for any year
0kgCO₂e/kWh
Location-based · Production mix · Fossil only · GWP100 · AR6
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossilOne value, for any year
CoM sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2024
- Region
- World GLOBAL
- Boundary
- Generation
- Data quality
- HighGenuinely zero
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0 comes from
CoM prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 2 0
You buy the energy, so its generation is your Scope 2.
The factor, standardised
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Electricity › Electricity by generation technology · World · per kWh · Generic
Generation · Location-based · Fossil only · AR6
- BoundaryGenerationCombustion at the generating plant for purchased energy carriers. Learn more
- Generation
- 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, production 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
- IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
- As printed by CoM
- 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
- Fossil onlyFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
- Life cycle
- Upstream: not coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not applicableEnd of life: not applicable
High quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of one kilowatt-hour, from the fuel to your meter. Not every step on it is counted; what is left out is listed below.
Generation
Producing the electricity at the power plants that make up the mix
Included0Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0
Outside this boundary
- Electricity lost on the network
- Producing and delivering the plants' fuel
- Building the power plants
CoM counts burning fuel at the plants, not producing and delivering that fuel or building the plants.
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About this factor
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Wind
CoM gives no description for this factor.
Source and licence
- 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-wind-global-kwh-generation-70a7effa/?v=efv1-796b8336c6d8645b6a6b079cb18d3974
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