Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152
Electricity mix, VE, 2015
Venezuela · Energy, full life cycle · Any year
Value for any year
0.292kgCO₂e/kWh
Location-based · Production mix · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventoriesOne value, for any year
ProBas sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2015
- Region
- Venezuela VE
- Boundary
- Energy, full life cycle
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · ProBas terms
Where 0.292 comes from
ProBas prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 2 + Scope 3, category 3 0.292
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.
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.
Electricity › Grid electricity · Venezuela · per kWh · Average
Energy, full life cycle · Location-based · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6
- BoundaryEnergy, full life cycleFull life-cycle emissions of one unit of energy service (a kWh generated, or a vehicle-, passenger- or tonne-kilometre moved): extraction and delivery of the fuel or electricity, its combustion in the plant or vehicle, and the manufacture of the generating asset or vehicle itself amortized over its lifetime output. Learn more
- Energy, full life cycle
- Fuel supply, generation and capital goods
- 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
- Location-based, production 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
- IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
- Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ProBas's AR5 figure of 0.292 kgCO₂e/kWh
- 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
- Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Split by gas
- Life cycle
- Upstream: partly 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.
Fuel supply
Extracting, processing and transporting the fuel the plants burn
Included, not split outGeneration
Producing the electricity at the power plants that make up the mix
Included, not split outAlso counted
- Building the power plants
Included, not split outYour meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0.292
Outside this boundary
- Electricity lost on the network
Gases
Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂Biogenic CO₂ and land-use change are left out; fossil CO₂, the other greenhouse gases and methane from biogenic sources are counted. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Fossil CO₂0.27393.5%
- Methane (CH₄)0.01595.4%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.003141.1%
Σ 0.273 + 0.0159 + 0.00314 = 0.291659, which ProBas rounds to 0.292.
Also printed, as zero: sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆).
Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.
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About this factor
From ProBas
Translated from GermanElectricity generation mix for Venezuela, data according to #1Show ProBas's original (German)
Stromerzeugungsmix für Venezuela, Daten nach #1Source and licence
- Publisher
- Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
- Library
- ProBas v02.44.152
- Record
- b5523f71-c418-4d58-b064-7e6ab114f41d
- Published
- 16 September 2020
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
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Cite this factor
ProBas, Umweltbundesamt. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/probas/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-probas-elmixve2015-ve-kwh-energy_lifecycle-a37a8875/?v=efv1-30236f3271d8375dc7df328604c9e59f
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