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Waste wood CHP plant

Germany · Energy, full life cycle · Any year

Each kilowatt-hour generated this way counts as 0.0115 kg CO₂e. GEMIS gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for any year

0.0115kgCO₂e/kWh

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2020

Region
Germany DE
Boundary
Energy, full life cycle
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Share-alike · GEMIS terms

Where 0.0115 comes from

Published as one number

GEMIS prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.

Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol

Scope 2 + Scope 3, category 3 0.0115

This one figure covers both together; no split between them is given.

You buy the energy, so its generation is your Scope 2.

What happens before the power station, from extracting the fuel to building the plant, is Scope 3, category 3.

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Electricity › Electricity by generation technology · Germany · per kWh · Average

Energy, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Energy, full life cycle
Fuel supply, generation and capital goods
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from GEMIS's AR5 figure of 0.0114 kgCO₂e/kWh
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Split by gas
Life cycle
Upstream: partly coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not applicableEnd of life: not applicable

Medium quality · Copyleft 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.

  1. Fuel supply

    Extracting, processing and transporting the fuel the plants burn

    Included, not split out

  2. Generation

    Producing the electricity at the power plants that make up the mix

    Included, not split out

  3. Also counted

    • Building the power plants
    Included, not split out

  4. Your meter

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

    = 0.0115

Outside this boundary

  • Electricity lost on the network

Gases

Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

  • Fossil CO₂0.0073564%
  • Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.0032228%
  • Methane (CH₄)0.000928%

Σ 0.00735 + 0.00092 + 0.00322 = 0.0114837, which GEMIS rounds to 0.0115.

Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.

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About this factor

From GEMIS

What it is

In German
Altholz-Kraftwerk (Dampfturbine) mit 20 MW elektrisch ohne Wärmenutzung

What it includes

In German
Gesamter Lebenszyklus inkl. Transporte + Materialvorleistung, ohne Entsorgung

Source and licence

Publisher
IINAS (International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy)
Library
GEMIS 5.2 (2025-12-01)
Published
1 December 2025
Open the record at GEMIS
GEMIS's terms of use Copyleft

Served in full. Whatever you build on it must carry the same licence.

Credit it with this lineIINAS (2025): GEMIS 5.2, iinas.org/gemis
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

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IINAS (2025): GEMIS 5.2, iinas.org/gemis. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/gemis/ (CC BY-SA 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-gemis-altholzhkw-de-kwh-energy_lifecycle-39be6d15/?v=efv1-4a0a1911ccc541b42d7dc8470bef064c

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