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Emission factor from ICM 2019

Electricity, PV, at 3kWp slanted-roof, multi-Si, panel, mounted

Australia · Energy, full life cycle · Any year

Each kilowatt-hour generated this way counts as 0.132 kg CO₂e: 0.0858 for process LCA (AusLCI) and 0.0462 for input-output supplement (services, capital, machinery).

Value for any year

0.132kgCO₂e/kWh

Biogenic CO₂ excluded · GWP100 · AR4

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2015

Region
Australia AU
Boundary
Energy, full life cycle
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 0.132 comes from

Σ 0.132: the two parts add up to ICM's published total.

Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol

Scope 2 + Scope 3, category 3 0.0858

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 · Australia · per kWh · Average

Energy, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR4

Boundary
Energy, full life cycle
Fuel supply, generation, capital goods and overheads and services
GWP method
IPCC AR4, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; inferred by open-climate.ai
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not applicableEnd of life: not applicable

Medium quality · Open 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. Process LCA (AusLCI)

    IncludedScope 20.0858

  2. Input-output supplement (services, capital, machinery)

    Included0.0462

  3. Your meter

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

    = 0.132

Outside this boundary

  • Electricity lost on the network

Gases

ICM publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e leaves biogenic CO₂ out.

From ICM's record to a comparable factor

ICM publishes this factor as one record with two sub-lines. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

The total and its parts

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You are here · the totalElectricity, PV, at 3kWp slanted-roof, multi-Si, panel, mounted, energy, full life cycle0.132
Process LCA (AusLCI)Scope 20.085865% of the totalOpenInput-output supplement (services, capital, machinery)0.046235% of the totalOpen

About this factor

ICM gives no description for this factor.

Source and licence

Publisher
UNSW Sydney, Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Database
Library
ICM 2019
Record
320
CC BY 4.0 Open

The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

Credit it with this lineWiedmann, T., Teh, S. H. and Yu, M. (2019) ICM Database - Integrated Carbon Metrics Embodied Carbon Life Cycle Inventory Database, UNSW Sydney. CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Cite this factor

Wiedmann, T., Teh, S. H. and Yu, M. (2019) ICM Database - Integrated Carbon Metrics Embodied Carbon Life Cycle Inventory Database, UNSW Sydney. CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/icm/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-icm-electricity_pv_at_3kwp-au-kwh-energy_lifecycle-9fc3c43d/?v=efv1-33a862e8e1210e1fe718336cfd7800ab

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