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Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152

Grid: district heating, NO, 2015, energy allocation

Norway · Useful heat, full life cycle · Any year

Each kilowatt-hour of heat or steam bought counts as 0.0365 kg CO₂e. ProBas gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for any year

0.0365kgCO₂e/kWh

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2015

Region
Norway NO
Boundary
Useful heat, full life cycle
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · ProBas terms

Where 0.0365 comes from

Published as one number

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 0.0365

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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Heat and cooling › District heat and steam · Norway · per kWh · Average

Useful heat, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Useful heat, full life cycle
Fuel supply, generation and capital goods
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ProBas's AR5 figure of 0.0365 kgCO₂e/kWh
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Split by gas

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

The path of one kilowatt-hour of heat, from the fuel to your meter. Every step on it is counted.

  1. Fuel supply

    Extracting, processing and transporting the fuel the heat plants burn

    Included, not split out

  2. Heat generation

    Producing the heat and steam at the plants that feed the network

    Included, not split out

  3. Also counted

    • Building the heat plants
    Included, not split out

  4. Your meter

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

    = 0.0365

Gases

Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

  • Fossil CO₂0.033892.8%
  • Methane (CH₄)0.001323.6%
  • Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.001323.6%

Σ 0.0338 + 0.00132 + 0.00132 = 0.0364837, which ProBas rounds to 0.0365.

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 German
Large district heating network for cities, fed from a mix of CHP and heat from peak-load boilers. Auxiliary energy demand (electricity for pumps) and material input from #2, data on the generation mix and losses from #1. Here with energy-based allocation between CHP electricity and CHP heat! Load factor: 2500h/a Fuel/input: Heat, space heating Land use: 100000m² Year: 2015 Length: 100km Lifetime: 25a Capacity: 100MW Product: Heat, space heating Loss: 15%/100 km
Show ProBas's original (German)
Großes Fernwärmenetz für Städte, Einspeisung aus Mix von KWK und Wärme aus Spitzenkesseln. Hilfsenergiebedarf (Strom für Pumpen) und Materialaufwand nach #2, Daten zum Erzeugungsmix und Verlusten aus #1. Hier mit energetischer Allokation zwischen KWK-Strom und KWK-Wärme! Auslastung: 2500h/a Brenn-/Einsatzstoff: Wärme - Heizen Flächeninanspruchnahme: 100000m² Jahr: 2015 Länge: 100km Lebensdauer: 25a Leistung: 100MW Produkt: Wärme - Heizen Verlust: 15%/100 km

Source and licence

Publisher
Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
Library
ProBas v02.44.152
Record
2c785cb0-f6b7-467c-98bd-533c3fb7bfe3
Published
16 September 2020
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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-netzfernwarmeno2015en-no-kwh-useful_heat_lifecycle-bcc5040c/?v=efv1-ca98868a2bd371306e51503af0f85308

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