Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152
Straw bales heat-only plant, SNCR, DE, 2010 (final energy)
Germany · Useful heat, full life cycle · Any year
Value per kWh, net calorific value
0.0163kgCO₂e/kWh
Net calorific value · 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 2010
- Region
- Germany DE
- Boundary
- Useful heat, full life cycle
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · ProBas terms
Where 0.0163 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 1 + Scope 2 + Scope 3, categories 2 and 3 0.0163
This one figure covers all four together; no split between them is given.
You burn the fuel, so its combustion is your Scope 1.
The plant and equipment behind your fuel are capital goods: Scope 3, category 2.
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 › Biofuels · Germany · per kWh · Average
Useful heat, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6
- BoundaryUseful heat, full life cycleFull life-cycle emissions of one kWh of useful heat delivered by a heating system: extraction and delivery of the fuel or electricity the system takes in, its combustion or conversion in the boiler, stove or heat pump, and the manufacture of the heating system itself amortized over its lifetime heat output. Learn more
- Useful heat, full life cycle
- Fuel supply, fuel combustion and capital goods
- 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 0.0163 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
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of one kilowatt-hour of this fuel, from the crops or residues it is made from to your engine or boiler. ProBas also counts its share of the plant and equipment.
Fuel supply
Feedstock
Growing the crops or collecting the residues
Processing
Pressing, fermenting or refining it into fuel
Transport
Moving it to your site
Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
Burning it
In your engine or boiler: mostly CO₂ the plants took up as they grew, with a little CH₄ and N₂O
= 0.0163 per kWh
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 CO₂0.014890.9%
- Methane (CH₄)0.000754.6%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.0007324.5%
Σ 0.0148 + 0.00075 + 0.000732 = 0.0162601, which ProBas rounds to 0.0163.
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.
From ProBas's record to a comparable factor
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About this factor
From ProBas
Translated from GermanStraw-fired heating plant for local heating, incl. fuel storage, bale shredder and SNCR; data according to #1, updated for emissions according to #3 (PAH, CH₄ and N₂O according to #4) and for costs according to #2; projection for 2020: efficiency + 1%, costs -10% (according to #5), combustion-related emissions reduced. Note: Here the efficiency was set to 100% for direct accounting with input-related final-energy data !
Load factor: 4000h/a
Fuel/input: Fuels-bio-solid
Land use: 1222m²
Firm capacity: 100%
Year: 2010
Lifetime: 20a
Power: 5MW
Efficiency: 100%
Product: Heat, heatingShow ProBas's original (German)
stroh-befeuertes Heizwerk für Nahwärme, inkl. Brennstofflager, Ballenzerkleinerer und SNCR; Daten nach #1, aktualisiert für Emissionen nach #3 (PAH, CH4 und N2O nach #4) und für Kosten nach #2; Fortschreibung für 2020: Effizienz + 1%, Kosten -10% (nach #5), verbrennungsbedingte Emissionen reduziert. Achtung: Hier wurde der Nutzungsgrad mit 100% angesetzt zur direkten Verrechnung mit inputbezogenene Endenergie-Daten !
Auslastung: 4000h/a
Brenn-/Einsatzstoff: Brennstoffe-Bio-fest
Flächeninanspruchnahme: 1222m²
gesicherte Leistung: 100%
Jahr: 2010
Lebensdauer: 20a
Leistung: 5MW
Nutzungsgrad: 100%
Produkt: Wärme - HeizenSource and licence
- Publisher
- Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
- Library
- ProBas v02.44.152
- Record
- 7d26352d-8a22-46a1-888b-64b57c56fea1
- 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-strohballenhwsncrde2010-de-kwh-useful_heat_lifecycle-7d55bfaf/?v=efv1-9ad9412f7923caec9498d3e70aedaedf
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