Emission factor from Japan MOE R8
Electricity - Q.ENEST Electric Co., Ltd. /
Japan · Generation and network losses · Any year
Value for any year
0.326kgCO₂e/kWh
Market-based · Supplier-specific mix · Fossil only · CO₂ only
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossilOne value, for any year
Japan MOE sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2024
- Region
- Japan JP
- Boundary
- Generation and network losses
- Data quality
- Very lowNo reason given by the publisher
- Licence
- Open · Japan MOE terms
Where 0.326 comes from
Japan MOE prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 2 + 3.3 Energy upstream 0.326
This one figure covers both together; no split between them is given.
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 · Japan · per kWh · Average
Generation and network losses · Market-based · Fossil only
- BoundaryGeneration and network lossesDelivered without its upstream chain: one unit of a delivered energy carrier (electricity, steam or hot water, chilled water) priced as the generation or heat production plus the transmission and distribution losses between the plant and the point of use, without the well-to-tank chain of the fuel the plant burns. Learn more
- 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
- Market-based, supplier-specific 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
- None: the value counts CO₂ alone
- CO₂ weighs 1 in every IPCC report, so no GWP applies
- 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
- All of it is CO₂
- Life cycle
- Upstream: not coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not applicableEnd of life: not applicable
Very low 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.
Generation
Producing the electricity at the power plants that make up the mix
Included, not split outNetwork losses
Electricity lost between the plant and your meter, which still had to be generated
Included, not split outYour meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0.326
Outside this boundary
- Producing and delivering the plants' fuel
- Building the power plants
- Building the grid
Japan MOE counts burning fuel at the plants, not producing and delivering that fuel or building the plants.
Gases
Basis: Fossil onlyFossil carbon only: biogenic CO₂, methane from biogenic sources and land-use change are left out. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil
- Fossil CO₂0.326
The CO₂e counts fossil carbon only; biogenic CO₂, biogenic methane and land-use carbon are left out.
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About this factor
From Japan MOE
Where it applies
Machine-translatedBecause of electricity received from operators whose factor is a substitute valueSource and licence
- Publisher
- 環境省 / 経済産業省 (Ministry of the Environment / Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
- Library
- Japan MOE R8
- Record
- A0491
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Cite this factor
出典：電気事業者別排出係数（環境省・経済産業省）https://policies.env.go.jp/earth/ghg-santeikohyo/calc.html. Source: Emission factors by electricity business operator (Ministry of the Environment / Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), PDL1.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/japan_moe/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-japanmoe-electricity_a0491_all-jp-kwh-generation_and_network-0c015d96/?v=efv1-bf3ad29ff6bcec86a055e22f53885ca9
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