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Emission factor from SSB

Coal - Boilers

Norway · Well-to-use · Any year

Each kilogram of this fuel counts as 3.26 kg CO₂e: 2.78 from burning it and 0.482 for producing it and bringing it to you (estimated).

Value for any year

3.26kgCO₂e/kg

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · Mixed GWP vintages

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2024

Estimated Summed by open-climate.ai from 2 parts, 1 of them estimated by us

Region
Norway NO
Boundary
Well-to-use
Data quality
Very lowEstimated from another country's supply chain
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 3.26 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 3.26: open-climate.ai adds up the two parts. SSB prints fuel combustion. open-climate.ai estimates fuel supply from other published figures.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 2.78 Scope 3, category 3 0.482

You burn the fuel, so its combustion is your Scope 1.

Supplying the fuel is Scope 3, category 3 for whoever burns it.

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Fuels › Solid fossil fuels · Norway · per kg · Average

Well-to-use · Excl. biogenic CO₂

Boundary
Well-to-use
Fuel supply and fuel combustion
GWP method
Mixed IPCC reports, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; set from SSB's method notes
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂
Not split by gas; CO₂e only

Very low quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

The path of one kilogram of this fuel, from the well to your flame. SSB gives one figure for the first three steps together.

  1. Well-to-tank0.482Scope 3, cat. 3

    1. Extraction

      Getting the fuel out of the ground

    2. Processing

      Treating it to the quality it is sold at

    3. Transport

      Moving it to your site

  2. Your record

    1 kg in your records. The factor is per kg.

  3. Burning it

    In your boiler, furnace or engine: CO₂, with a little CH₄ and N₂O

    Scope 12.78

0.482 + 2.78 = 3.26 per kg

Outside this boundary

  • Making the boiler that burns it
  • Building the pipelines and the network

SSB counts the fuel, not the things built to extract, move and burn it.

Gases

SSB 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 SSB's record to a comparable factor

SSB 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

Each part has its own page. Use a part on its own when you report Scope 1 and Scope 3 separately; never add a part to the total.

You are here · the totalCoal, boilers, well-to-use3.26
CombustionScope 12.7885.2% of the totalOpenUpstream fuelScope 3, cat. 30.48214.8% of the totalOpen

About this factor

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
Statistisk sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway)
Library
SSB 2024
Published
3 November 2025
See the source data at SSB
CC BY 4.0 Open

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Credit it with this lineStatistisk sentralbyrå (SSB), licensed under CC BY 4.0
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Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/ssb/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-ssb-coal_boilers-no-kg-well_to_use-02b8c530/?v=efv1-7c0e590afba5ff09adb37d9b80d9b1bc

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