Emission factor from Japan MOE R8

Electricity - Okinawa Electric Power Co., Ltd.

Okinawa Prefecture · Generation and network losses · Any year

Each kilowatt-hour drawn from the grid counts as 0.707 kg CO₂e. Japan MOE gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for any year

0.707kgCO₂e/kWh

Location-based · Consumption mix · Fossil only · CO₂ only

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2024

Region
Okinawa Prefecture JP-47
Boundary
Generation and network losses
Data quality
MediumNo reason given by the publisher
Licence
Open · Japan MOE terms

Where 0.707 comes from

Published as one number

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 0.707

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.

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Electricity › Grid electricity · Okinawa Prefecture · per kWh · Average

Generation and network losses · Location-based · Fossil only

Boundary
Generation and network losses
Calculation approach
Location-based, consumption mix
GWP method
None: the value counts CO₂ alone
CO₂ weighs 1 in every IPCC report, so no GWP applies
CO₂e basis
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

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. Generation

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

    Included, not split out
  2. Network losses

    Electricity lost between the plant and your meter, which still had to be generated

    Included, not split out
  3. Your meter

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

    = 0.707

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 onlyFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil

  • Fossil CO₂0.707

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-translated
Because of electricity received from operators whose factor is a substitute value.

Source and licence

Publisher
環境省 / 経済産業省 (Ministry of the Environment / Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
Record
10

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Credit it with this line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
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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-grid_10-jp_47-kwh-generation_and_network-7a050db3/?v=efv1-d53f91c36486adbc0894e7fe8b5fa8aa

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