Each kilowatt-hour of this fuel counts as 0.392 kg CO₂e: 0.339 from burning it and 0.0533 for producing it and bringing it to you (estimated).
Value per kWh, net calorific value
0.392kgCO₂e/kWh
Net calorific value · Fossil only · GWP100 · Mixed GWP vintages
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossilOne value, for any year
GHGPI sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2022
EstimatedAn estimate by open-climate.ai, not a number the publisher printed. Where a fuel publisher prints combustion only, we add the supply chain before the burn (well-to-tank), computed by one stated rule from the publisher's own combustion value and a published supply-chain ratio. Learn more Summed by open-climate.ai from 2 parts, 1 of them estimated by us
- Region
- India IN
- Boundary
- Well-to-use
- Data quality
- Very lowEstimated from another country's supply chain
- Licence
- Open · GHGPI terms
Where 0.392 comes from
- Scope 10.33986.4%
- Fuel supplyEstimatedAn estimate by open-climate.ai, not a number the publisher printed. Where a fuel publisher prints combustion only, we add the supply chain before the burn (well-to-tank), computed by one stated rule from the publisher's own combustion value and a published supply-chain ratio. Learn moreDerived by open-climate.aiScope 3, cat. 30.053313.6%
Σ 0.392: open-climate.ai adds up the two parts. GHGPI prints fuel combustion. open-climate.ai estimates fuel supply from other published figures.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 1 0.339 Scope 3, category 3 0.0533
You burn the fuel, so its combustion is your Scope 1.
Supplying the fuel is Scope 3, category 3 for whoever burns it.
The factor, standardised
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Fuels › Solid fossil fuels · India · per kWh · Average
Well-to-use · Fossil only
- 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 and fuel combustion
- 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
- Mixed IPCC reports, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; set from GHGPI'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
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. GHGPI gives one figure for the first three steps together.
Well-to-tank0.0533Scope 3, cat. 3
Extraction
Getting the fuel out of the ground
Processing
Treating it to the quality it is sold at
Transport
Moving it to your site
Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
Burning it
In your boiler, furnace or engine: CO₂, with a little CH₄ and N₂O
Scope 10.339
0.0533 + 0.339 = 0.392 per kWh
Outside this boundary
- Making the boiler that burns it
- Building the pipelines and the network
GHGPI counts the fuel, not the things built to extract, move and burn it.
Gases
GHGPI 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 GHGPI's record to a comparable factor
GHGPI 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
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About this factor
Source and licence
- Value
- Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
- Publisher
- GHG Platform India
- Library
- GHGPI 2022-series
- Published
- 1 September 2022
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Cite this factor
Source: GHG Platform India. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/ghgp_india/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-ghgpindia-electricity_sector-in-kwh-well_to_use-fe1c29a7/?v=efv1-ad5177921c2469beb1329c9864359375
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