Emission factor from DEWA
Grid electricity - Dubai (DEWA) - average generation mix
Dubai · Well-to-use · 2025 onwards
Each kilowatt-hour drawn from the grid from 2025 counts as 0.468 kg CO₂e: 0.383 at the power plants, 0.0639 for the fuel supplied to the power plants (estimated) and 0.0209 for the electricity lost on the network (estimated).
Value from 2025 onwards
0.468kgCO₂e/kWh
Location-based · Production mix · Fossil only · GWP100 · AR5
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossilEstimatedAn 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
- Dubai AE-DU
- Boundary
- Well-to-use
- Data quality
- Very lowEstimated from a broader region
- Licence
- Open · DEWA terms
Where 0.468 comes from
- Scope 20.38381.9%
- 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.ai3.3 Energy upstream0.063913.7%
- 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.ai3.3 Energy upstream0.02094.5%
Σ 0.468: open-climate.ai adds up the three parts. DEWA 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 0.383 3.3 Energy upstream 0.0848
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
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Electricity › Grid electricity · Dubai · per kWh · Average
Well-to-use · Location-based · Fossil only · AR5
- 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, 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 AR5, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; set from DEWA'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
- Fossil onlyFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
- Life cycle
- Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not applicableEnd of life: not applicable
Very low quality · Open licence · 2016 to now
All values
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2025 onwards0.468Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai
| AppliesYears | TotalkgCO₂e/kWh |
|---|---|
| 0.468Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.494Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.488Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.494Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.526Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.497Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.513Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.527Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.538Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.544Derived 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
Included3.3 Energy upstream0.0639Generation
Producing the electricity at the power plants that make up the mix
IncludedScope 20.383Network losses
Electricity lost between the plant and your meter, which still had to be generated
Included3.3 Energy upstream0.0209Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0.468
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
DEWA publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e counts fossil carbon only; biogenic CO₂, biogenic methane and land-use carbon are left out.
From DEWA's record to a comparable factor
DEWA 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
- Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA PJSC)
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Cite this factor
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA PJSC), Sustainability Report 2025 and earlier editions (2020-2024). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/dewa/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-dewa-grid_electricity_dubai-ae_du-kwh-well_to_use-87ce5fc2/?v=efv1-1a2c7babf36905917a450fca720e9c42
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