Each kilowatt-hour of this fuel counts as 0.408 kg CO₂e: 0.351 from burning it and 0.0569 for producing it and bringing it to you (estimated).
Value per kWh, net calorific value
0.408kgCO₂e/kWh
Net calorific value · Fossil only · GWP100 · AR5
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossilOne value, for any year
MEE sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2026
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
- China CN
- Boundary
- Well-to-use
- Data quality
- Very lowEstimated from another country's supply chain
- Licence
- Open · MEE terms
Where 0.408 comes from
- Scope 10.35186.1%
- 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.ai3.3 Energy upstream0.056913.9%
Σ 0.408: open-climate.ai adds up the two parts. MEE prints fuel combustion. open-climate.ai estimates fuel supply from other published figures.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 1 0.351 3.3 Energy upstream 0.0569
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
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Fuels › Solid fossil fuels · China · per kWh · Average
Well-to-use · Fossil only · AR5
- 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
- IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; set from MEE'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. MEE gives one figure for the first three steps together.
Well-to-tank0.05693.3 Energy upstream
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 10.351
0.0569 + 0.351 = 0.408 per kWh
Outside this boundary
- Making the boiler that burns it
- Building the pipelines and the network
MEE counts the fuel, not the things built to extract, move and burn it.
Gases
MEE 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 MEE's record to a comparable factor
MEE 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
Each part has its own page. Use a part on its own when you report Scope 1 and Scope 3 separately; never add a part to the total.
About this factor
Source and licence
- Value
- Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
- Publisher
- 生态环境部 / Ministry of Ecology and Environment
- Library
- MEE v2
- Published
- 1 March 2026
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