open-climate.aiFactors

Emission factor from Syke

Electrical cable, medium voltage

Finland · EPD total · Any year

Each kilogram counts as 7 kg CO₂e: 5.4 up to the factory gate and 1.6 for waste processing.

Value for any year

7kgCO₂e/kg

Fossil only · GWP100 · GWP vintage not stated

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2026

Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of Syke's published parts

Region
Finland FI
Boundary
EPD total
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · Syke terms

Where 7 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 7: Syke prints the two parts separately; open-climate.ai adds them up. recycling credit stays beside it.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

This period

Scope 3, category 1 5.4

Goods and services you buy are Scope 3, category 1, purchased goods and services.

Waste you handle at the end of its life is category 5, waste generated in operations, in the year it happens.

Later, when it happens

At end of life

  • Waste processing Scope 3, category 5 1.6

Outside the scopes, reported separately

  • recycling credit −1.6
CiteAPI

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.

Manufactured goods › Electrical equipment · Finland · per kg · Generic

EPD total · Fossil only

Boundary
EPD total
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy and end of life
GWP method
Not stated by the publisher
CO₂e basis
Fossil onlyFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: partly covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

What Syke counts in the figure for one kilogram, phase by phase.

  1. Upstream

    • Transport to the plant
    • Raw materials
    • Fuel supply chain
    Included

  2. Production

    • Fuel combustion
    • Manufacturing
    • Packaging
    • Purchased electricity and heat
    Included

  3. End of life

    • End of life
    Partly included

  4. Your record

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

    = 7

Outside this boundary

  • Retail

Syke does not count any of this in the figure for one kilogram.

Gases

Syke publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e counts fossil carbon only; biogenic CO₂, biogenic methane and land-use carbon are left out.

From Syke's record to a comparable factor

Syke publishes the two parts; open-climate.ai added them 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, with its own years and source record. Never add a part to the total.

You are here · the totalElectrical cable, medium voltage, EPD total7
Cradle to gateScope 3, cat. 15.477.1% of the totalOpenWaste processingScope 3, cat. 51.622.9% of the totalOpenrecycling creditOutside the scopes−1.6Printed beside the total, not in itOpen

About this factor

From Syke

Voimakaapelit koostuvat yleensä suojaavista polyamidikerroksista ja sisällä kulkevista kupari- tai alumiinijohdoista. Voimakaapelit ovat tavallisesti yksi- tai kolmijohdinkaapeleita. Koska materiaalit ovat suuripäästöisiä, A1-vaihetta voidaan pitää tärkeimpänä tekijänä tuotteen GWP-arvon kannalta. Koska kuparikaapeleita käsitellään markkinakatsauksissa ja EPD-ympäristöselosteissa vain vähän, annettu GWP-arvo koskee vain alumiinijohtimella varustettuja voimakaapeleita.

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Library
Syke v1.01.010
Published
25 September 2026
See the source data at Syke
Syke's terms of use Open

The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

The contents of the databases are freely available for use as a machine-readable and continuously updated file in JSON format.
Credit it with this lineSource: CO2data.fi, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

Cite this factor

Source: CO2data.fi, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/syke/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-syke-electrical_cable_medium-fi-kg-epd_total-3c1982c8/?v=efv1-8039c5ea705f456823da3d99ed441f40

Something looks wrong?

Tell us which value and why. We check it against the source and answer within a week.