Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152
Heat, process, mix, DE, industry, 2015
Germany · Useful heat, full life cycle · Any year
Value for any year
0.315kgCO₂e/kWh
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
- Germany DE
- Boundary
- Useful heat, full life cycle
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · ProBas terms
Where 0.315 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 0.315
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.
The factor, standardised
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Heat and cooling · 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, generation 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 0.315 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 heat, from the fuel to your meter. Every step on it is counted.
Fuel supply
Extracting, processing and transporting the fuel the heat plants burn
Included, not split outHeat generation
Producing the heat and steam at the plants that feed the network
Included, not split outAlso counted
- Building the heat plants
Included, not split outYour meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0.315
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 CO₂0.29192.2%
- Methane (CH₄)0.01374.4%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.01093.5%
Σ 0.291 + 0.0137 + 0.0109 = 0.315294, which ProBas rounds to 0.315.
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 GermanMix for the provision of process heat in German industry, shares per #1Show ProBas's original (German)
Mix zur Bereitstellung von Prozesswärme in der deutschen Industrie, Anteile nach #1Source and licence
- Publisher
- Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
- Library
- ProBas v02.44.152
- Record
- a4c15752-d209-4244-89bd-2098f90e1ce9
- 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-warmeprozessmixdeindustr-de-kwh-useful_heat_lifecycle-045c76b5/?v=efv1-52ec7e977fbf19ffcf329b0b900ab999
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