Emission factor from Naturvårdsverket
Natural Gas - Power plants and district heating
Sweden · Well-to-use · 2024 onwards
Each kilowatt-hour of this fuel from 2024 counts as 0.239 kg CO₂e: 0.206 from burning it and 0.033 for producing it and bringing it to you (estimated).
Value per kWh, net calorific value
0.239kgCO₂e/kWh
Net calorific value · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · Mixed GWP vintages
Estimated Summed by open-climate.ai from 2 parts, 1 of them estimated by us
- Region
- Sweden SE
- Boundary
- Well-to-use
- Data quality
- Very lowEstimated from a broader region
- Licence
- Open · Naturvårdsverket terms
Where 0.239 comes from
- Scope 10.20686.2%
- Fuel supplyEstimatedDerived by open-climate.aiScope 3, cat. 30.03313.8%
Σ 0.239: open-climate.ai adds up the two parts. Naturvårdsverket prints fuel combustion. open-climate.ai estimates fuel supply from other published figures.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 1 0.206 Scope 3, category 3 0.033
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 › Gaseous fossil fuels · Sweden · per kWh · Average
Well-to-use · Excl. biogenic CO₂
- 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 Naturvårdsverket's method notes
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic CO₂ and land use; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Very low quality · Open licence · 1990 to now
All values
34 values, one per period back to 1990. Every one is biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded, Mixed GWP100, so the years compare directly.
2024 onwards0.239Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai
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What this number covers
The path of one kilowatt-hour of this fuel, from the well to your flame. Naturvårdsverket gives one figure for the first three steps together.
Well-to-tank0.033Scope 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 10.206
0.033 + 0.206 = 0.239 per kWh
Outside this boundary
- Making the boiler that burns it
- Building the pipelines and the network
Naturvårdsverket counts the fuel, not the things built to extract, move and burn it.
Gases
Naturvårdsverket publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e leaves biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon out; methane from biogenic sources is counted.
From Naturvårdsverket's record to a comparable factor
Naturvårdsverket 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
- Naturvårdsverket (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency)
- Library
- Naturvårdsverket
- Published
- 2 March 2026
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
Source: Naturvårdsverket, Emissionsfaktorer och värmevärden, submission 2026 (2026-03-02). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/naturvardsverket/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-naturvardsverket-natural_gas_power_plants-se-kwh-well_to_use-d1256916/?v=efv1-88075027881be9bc6d070538543e502e
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