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Emission factor from DCE 2024

Natural gas - Food and Tobacco, Combustion plants < 50 MW (boilers)

Denmark · Well-to-use · Any year

Each kilowatt-hour of this fuel counts as 0.24 kg CO₂e: 0.207 from burning it and 0.0332 for producing it and bringing it to you (estimated).

Value per kWh, net calorific value

0.24kgCO₂e/kWh

Net calorific value · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · Mixed GWP vintages

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2024

Estimated Summed by open-climate.ai from 2 parts, 1 of them estimated by us

Region
Denmark DK
Boundary
Well-to-use
Data quality
Very lowEstimated from a broader region
Licence
Open · DCE terms

Where 0.24 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 0.24: open-climate.ai adds up the two parts. DCE prints fuel combustion. open-climate.ai estimates fuel supply from other published figures.

Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 0.207 Scope 3, category 3 0.0332

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

Supplying the fuel is Scope 3, category 3 for whoever burns it.

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Fuels › Gaseous fossil fuels · Denmark · per kWh · Average

Well-to-use · Excl. biogenic CO₂

Boundary
Well-to-use
Fuel supply and fuel combustion
GWP method
Mixed IPCC reports, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; set from DCE's method notes
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂
Not split by gas; CO₂e only

Very low quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

The path of one kilowatt-hour of this fuel, from the well to your flame. DCE gives one figure for the first three steps together.

  1. Well-to-tank0.0332Scope 3, cat. 3

    1. Extraction

      Getting the fuel out of the ground

    2. Processing

      Treating it to the quality it is sold at

    3. Transport

      Moving it to your site

  2. Your meter

    1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.

  3. Burning it

    In your boiler, furnace or engine: CO₂, with a little CH₄ and N₂O

    Scope 10.207

0.0332 + 0.207 = 0.24 per kWh

Outside this boundary

  • Making the boiler that burns it
  • Building the pipelines and the network

DCE counts the fuel, not the things built to extract, move and burn it.

Gases

DCE 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 DCE's record to a comparable factor

DCE publishes one of the two 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

Each part has its own page. Use a part on its own when you report Scope 1 and Scope 3 separately; never add a part to the total.

You are here · the totalNatural gas, food and Tobacco, Combustion plants < 50 MW (boilers), well-to-use0.24
CombustionScope 10.20786.2% of the totalOpenUpstream fuelScope 3, cat. 30.033213.8% of the totalOpen

About this factor

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University
Library
DCE 2024
Published
2 January 2026
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Source: DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University. Emission factors used in the Danish national emission inventories, 2024. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/dce_denmark/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-dcedenmark-natural_gas_food_and-dk-kwh-well_to_use-7429b778/?v=efv1-7330187c4e71befee5cd7c17bd3bc50f

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