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Grid electricity, Western Denmark price area (DK1) - location-based consumption mix of the price area, imports included; combustion at the plant only, grid loss excluded (reported separately in Scope 3); heat from combined plants credited at 125 % efficiency, the default reading: the one the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use

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Grid electricity
Grid electricity, Western Denmark price area (DK1) - location-based consumption mix of the price area, imports included; combustion at the plant only, grid loss excluded (reported separately in Scope 3); heat from combined plants credited at 125 % efficiency, the default reading: the one the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use

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Grid electricity, Western Denmark price area (DK1) - location-based consumption mix of the price area, imports included; combustion at the plant only, grid loss excluded (reported separately in Scope 3); heat from combined plants credited at 125 % efficiency, the default reading: the one the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use

Name: Grid electricity, Western Denmark price area (DK1) - location-based consumption mix of the price area, imports included; combustion at the plant only, grid loss excluded (reported separately in Scope 3); heat from combined plants credited at 125 % efficiency, the default reading: the one the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use
Creator: Energinet
License: https://www.energidataservice.dk/terms-and-conditions

DK-DK1 · Well-to-use · 2025 onwards

Each kilowatt-hour drawn from the grid from 2025 counts as 0.105 kg CO₂e: 0.068 at the power plants, 0.0302 for the fuel supplied to the power plants (estimated) and 0.00674 for the electricity lost on the network (estimated).

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Value from 2025 onwards

0.105kgCO₂e/kWh

Location-based · Consumption mix · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR5

2025–

Default: the latest year−11.4% on 2024

Estimated Summed by open-climate.ai from 3 parts, 2 of them estimated by us

Region: DK-DK1 DK-DK1
Boundary: Well-to-use
Data quality: Very lowEstimated from a broader region
Licence: Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 0.105 comes from

Generation
Scope 20.06864.8%
Fuel supplyEstimatedDerived by open-climate.ai
Scope 3, cat. 30.030228.8%
Network lossesEstimatedDerived by open-climate.ai
Scope 3, cat. 30.006746.4%

Σ 0.105: open-climate.ai adds up the three parts. Energinet 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 0.068 Scope 3, category 3 0.037

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.

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The factor, standardised

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Electricity › Grid electricity · DK-DK1 · per kWh · Average

Category: Electricity › Grid electricity; Browse it to compare every publisher's factors
Activity: Grid electricity, Western Denmark price area (DK1) - location-based consumption mix of the price area, imports included; combustion at the plant only, grid loss excluded (reported separately in Scope 3); heat from combined plants credited at 125 % efficiency, the default reading: the one the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use
Region: DK-DK1
Per unit: kWh; Converted from the publisher's unit, multiplied by 0.001
Data type: Average; No supplier named

Well-to-use · Location-based · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR5

Boundary: Well-to-use; Fuel supply, generation and network losses
Calculation approach: Location-based, consumption mix
GWP method: IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon; Not on the record; set from Energinet's method notes
CO₂e basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂; Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle: Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not applicableEnd of life: not applicable

Very low quality · Open licence · 2015 to now

Data quality: Very low; Estimated from a broader region
Applies to: 2025– (2025 onwards); Reference year 2025 · a value for every year back to 2015
Origin: Summed by open-climate.ai from Energinet's parts; 2 of 3 parts estimated by open-climate.ai
Licence: Open · CC BY 4.0; Free to reuse, with attribution

All values

11 values, one per year back to 2015. Every one is location-based, consumption mix, biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded, AR5 GWP100, so the years compare directly. Tap a bar.

Latest, and lowest on record0.105 2025–

Highest0.276 2016

Change since 2015−53%

Upstream fuel share18% → 29%

2025 onwards0.105Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai

Every value of Grid electricity, Western Denmark price area (DK1) - location-based consumption mix of the price area, imports included; combustion at the plant only, grid loss excluded (reported separately in Scope 3); heat from combined plants credited at 125 % efficiency, the default reading: the one the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use, DK-DK1
TotalkgCO₂e/kWh	Generation	Upstream fuel	Transmission and distribution losses
0.105Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai	0.068	0.0302	0.00674
0.119Derived by open-climate.ai	0.0812	0.0294	0.00801
0.146Derived by open-climate.ai	0.104	0.0321	0.00966
0.204Derived by open-climate.ai	0.149	0.0412	0.0142
0.21Derived by open-climate.ai	0.15	0.0456	0.014
0.175Derived by open-climate.ai	0.124	0.0371	0.0135
0.208Derived by open-climate.ai	0.152	0.0416	0.0148
0.238Derived by open-climate.ai	0.177	0.0452	0.0157
0.207Derived by open-climate.ai	0.152	0.0413	0.0132
0.276Derived by open-climate.ai	0.211	0.0486	0.0168
0.223Derived by open-climate.ai	0.17	0.0405	0.0127

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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. 30.0302
Generation
Producing the electricity at the power plants that make up the mix
IncludedScope 20.068
Network losses
Electricity lost between the plant and your meter, which still had to be generated
IncludedScope 3, cat. 30.00674
Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0.105

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

Energinet 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 Energinet's record to a comparable factor

Energinet 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.

Energinet fields and their standardised form
Energinet field	As printed		Served as
Total	not on the record	→	0.105 kgCO₂e/kWh, well-to-use; summed by open-climate.ai from the parts
Generation	68.0082	→	0.068 kgCO₂e/kWh
Upstream fuel	not on the record	→	0.0302 kgCO₂e/kWh, estimated by open-climate.ai
Transmission and distribution losses	not on the record	→	0.00674 kgCO₂e/kWh, estimated by open-climate.ai
GWP	not on the record	→	AR5, GWP100, from Energinet's method notes
Publication date	01/06/2026	→	Published 1 June 2026; applies 2025 onwards

Checks this factor passed

The three parts add up to the total in each of the 11 years.
One value per year from 2015, no gaps, no overlaps.
Every printed part divided by 1,000 to serve it per kWh.
Unit, region, boundary and method mapped to fixed code lists.

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The total and its parts

Each part has its own page. Use a part on its own when you report Scope 2 and Scope 3 separately; never add a part to the total.

You are here · the totalGrid electricity, Western Denmark price area (DK1), location-based consumption mix of the price area, imports included; combustion at the plant only, grid loss excluded (reported separately in Scope 3); heat from combined plants credited at 125 % efficiency, the default reading: the one the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use, well-to-use0.105

GenerationScope 20.06864.8% of the totalOpen Upstream fuelScope 3, cat. 30.030228.8% of the totalOpen T&D lossesScope 3, cat. 30.006746.4% of the totalOpen

About this factor

Note from open-climate.ai

Added by open-climate.ai: Energinet's published generation factor for this grid (Western Denmark price area DK1) plus open-climate.ai's estimates of the fuel supply chain upstream of generation and of the electricity lost in transmission and distribution, with its own fuel supply chain. For 2025 (consumption mix): 0.0680082 kg CO₂e/kWh for generation, 0.03022999 kg CO₂e/kWh for the fuel supply chain upstream of generation and 0.00674428 kg CO₂e/kWh for the electricity lost in transmission and distribution with its own fuel supply chain, 0.10498247 kg CO₂e/kWh in total. Under the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance (Appendix B), losses are reported with the location-based factor whatever the mix, so a market-based or green value of this factor carries the same loss part as a location-based one. Quality: very low, the lowest of its parts (estimated from a broader region). Sources: Energinet (CC BY 4.0); Energinet Miljødeklaration, electricity balance per price area (CC BY 4.0, loss share computed from distribution and transmission losses and net consumption); UK Government GHG conversion factors (Open Government Licence v3.0); Ember yearly electricity data (CC BY 4.0, fuel shares recomputed as shares of fossil emissions); co2emissiefactoren.nl (co2emissiefactoren.nl terms of use). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Not published or endorsed by Energinet, the UK Government, Ember or co2emissiefactoren.nl. Every value of this factor is the sum of the parts of its own year or period.

Source and licence

Value: Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher: Energinet
Library: Energinet Miljoedeklaration 2025 260519
Published: 1 June 2026

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Changes: values converted from g/kWh to kg/kWh; methane and nitrous oxide stated as CO2e using the weights Energinet prints (28, 265). Energinet does not endorse this use.

Credit it with this lineSource: Energinet (www.energidataservice.dk), Miljødeklaration (location-based declaration), annual averages per price area 2015-2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Source: Energinet (www.energidataservice.dk), Miljødeklaration (location-based declaration), annual averages per price area 2015-2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/energinet/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-energinet-miljdeklaration-dk_dk1-kwh-well_to_use-cefd9f46/?v=efv1-8f0faa2a42ebb2dff40311d48ad4b94b

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