Energinet

Denmark's two electricity declarations from Energinet, the Danish transmission system operator: a location-based factor for each of the two price areas, DK1 and DK2, and the national residual mix for market-based reporting.

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Grid mix
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miljoedeklaration-2025-260519

published 1 Jun 2026 · all versions

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Overview

Energinet is the state-owned operator of Denmark's electricity and gas transmission grids. Each year it publishes two declarations for electricity consumed in Denmark, on energinet.dk.

The environmental declaration (Miljødeklaration) gives the emissions of the electricity consumed in each price area: DK1, Western Denmark (Jutland and Funen), and DK2, Eastern Denmark (Zealand and the islands). It is the location-based figure. The general electricity declaration (Generel eldeklaration) gives the residual mix: the electricity left once every Guarantee of Origin has been cancelled. It is the market-based figure for electricity bought without a certificate, and it covers Denmark as a whole.

The edition loaded is the environmental declaration published in May 2026 (data years up to 2025) and the general declaration for 2025.

At a glance

Publisher: Energinet
Kind: Government
Scope: SpecialistOne category holds at least 5% of its factors: Electricity, with 100.0%. A generalist needs 4.
Home region: Denmark
Edition: miljoedeklaration-2025-260519
Licence: Open licence (cc-by-4.0)

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One category axis

26 of 26 factor values mapped to one category

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Coded regions

3 regions as ISO or registry codes

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Canonical units

1 canonical unit in 1 unit families, raw unit kept

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Warming potentials

1 factor value recalculated on AR6

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25 factor values left on the publisher's GWP

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Declared boundaries

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Parts and parents

20 factor values grouped under 6 parents

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Estimated electricity legs

13 estimated legs the publisher does not print (grid losses, the fuel chain)

8 totals that include an estimated leg

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Electricity mix

26 electricity factors state their instrument; one default, market first

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Data quality

26 of 26 factor values rated on one quality tier

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Languages

English: 100.0% of factor values

Danish: 100.0% of factor values

French: 0.0% of factor values

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Traceable to the source

100 source rows archived

40 rows skipped, each with a reason

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Boundary scope terms are known codes
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Warming potentials

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Methane and nitrous oxide figures match the stated GWP
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Every convertible value has its AR6 version
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CO2e totals leave out what their basis excludes
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No factor is an unlinked part of another factor
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Every factor points to its top parent
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Estimated electricity legs

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No estimate is served where the publisher printed the figure
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Every estimate is built only from data we may redistribute
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No estimated factor is rated above the data it was built from
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Every estimated factor still matches the inputs it was computed from
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A total built on an estimated part is marked as estimated
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Every estimated factor carries its description in each language
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Why it matters An estimated factor is one we computed, not one a publisher printed. Its description says so and names the data behind it. Without it, you could not tell the estimate from a published figure.
The text of each estimated factor matches its current figures
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Why it matters An estimated factor's description states the year, shares and quality behind it. If those moved, the text would explain a different number than the one served.
The text of each estimated electricity total matches its current figures
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Why it matters The description of an estimated electricity total states its year, mix, quality and the parts it adds up. If those moved, the text would explain a different number than the one served.

Electricity mix

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Every electricity factor states its mix
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Why it matters Without its mix you cannot tell a location-based figure from a market-based one, and Scope 2 reporting needs both side by side.
The market-based value is the default
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Why it matters The default then matches the figure most Scope 2 reports lead with, and a green-tariff zero is never the default when another figure exists.
One default value per factor and year
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Why it matters Two defaults for one year give two answers to the same lookup.
Every green-electricity zero is a market-based value
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Why it matters A zero from a green contract only holds for the buyer of that contract. Filed as location-based, it would put a zero on the physical grid.
Green-electricity zeros are not rated below market-based peers
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Why it matters A green-contract zero is the contract's own figure. Marked down for being zero, it would lose to less relevant values when you look up contracted supply.

Data quality

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Quality ratings fall inside their scale
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Why it matters An out-of-scale rating cannot be compared, so the value would be ranked arbitrarily.
Every zero value is explained
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Why it matters A zero can be real (contracted renewable power) or a gap in the data. A gap read as real erases emissions from your total.
No default value is withheld for poor quality
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Why it matters A default rated too poor to serve is hidden from search and exports, so that factor is missing for you even when it is the right one.
No implausibly high per-kilogram value is rated reliable
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Why it matters Above 1,000 kgCO2e per kg is often a unit slip, such as grams read as kilograms. Rated reliable, such a value could inflate a footprint a thousandfold.
Every quality level gives a recognised reason
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Why it matters The reason explains why a value got its quality level. An unrecognised one cannot be filtered on or explained to you.
A zero that is only a gap in the source is withheld
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Why it matters A zero with no quality signal, or an implausible regulatory default of zero, is more likely missing data than a real zero. Served, it would erase emissions from your total.
The library is not rated entirely on one fallback quality level
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Every factor has an English name
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Translations match the current source text
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Why it matters When the publisher rewords a label, an old translation can describe a different activity than the one priced.
Translations follow a corrected source text
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Why it matters When we correct an English label, a French or German label translated from the old wording can still describe what the old wording said.
Recorded translations survive a reload
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Every served factor has a name
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Factors are searched on their English name where one exists
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Every language with a main name also has a full name
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Full names are built from their parts in the same language
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Every text is labelled with its real language
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Why it matters A French name labelled English would be shown to English readers and matched against English searches.
Every description is available for display and translation
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Why it matters A description missing from the per-language text store is not shown in your language, and never gets translated.
Every usage note is available for display and translation
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Traceable to the source

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Values traced to one source row agree with each other
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No duplicate factors are served
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No factor value claims two things that cannot both be true
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Why it matters For example, a purchaser price that leaves out retail or delivery, or packaging on an energy unit. One of the two claims is wrong, and you cannot tell which.
No factor value the publisher has withdrawn is still served
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One activity keeps one family across its units
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An activity's grouping key names only the activity
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No note of ours appears in the credit or licence notice
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The credit line carries no terms of use
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Every impact assessment method is a recognised code
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Summed totals keep their parts' classification
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An avoided credit is linked to the burden it belongs to
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No battery-electric vehicle carries tailpipe emissions
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No estimate sits beside a total of unclear scope
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No estimate repeats a stage the publisher's total already includes
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Why it matters If the publisher's figure already covers, say, grid losses, adding our estimate of those losses would count them twice and overstate your emissions.
Every factor we complete has all of its estimated parts
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We only estimate for publishers whose rule allows it
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No estimated total competes with a published one
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The text of each fuel supply-chain estimate matches its current figures
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No fuel supply-chain estimate is rated above what its method allows
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Every fuel estimate is built only from data we may redistribute
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Every fuel eligible for a supply-chain estimate is classified
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No fuel estimate is served where the publisher printed the supply-chain figure
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No supply-chain estimate is served for a fuel we deliberately left out
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Every fuel supply-chain estimate still matches the figures it was computed from
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Every tagged gas has a known GWP
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Every fixed group of regions lists what it covers
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Where both exist, the residual mix is shown before the green-tariff zero
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Why it matters Green electricity counts as zero only for buyers who hold the matching certificates. Showing zero by default would understate everyone else's emissions.
Every publisher has a rule on whether we estimate its missing parts
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Why it matters For electricity and fuels we can estimate parts a publisher leaves out, such as grid losses or the fuel supply chain. Without a rule, a missing part could be a gap or a deliberate choice, so nothing is estimated until one is set.
Factor descriptions describe the factor, not the whole library
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No fossil electricity mix has a zero fuel supply chain
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Every green-electricity zero is exactly zero and says why
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Why it matters A green-tariff factor is zero by rule. Any other number, or a zero with no stated reason, would mean the rule was applied wrongly.
Green-electricity zeros cover power generation only
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Why it matters Certificates cover the power plant's emissions, not grid losses or the upstream fuel chain. A zero on those stages would understate your Scope 2 and Scope 3 figures.
No factor description is too long to display in full
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The library-wide answers on what a factor covers are up to date
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Every library-wide answer applies to at least one factor
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Every residual mix has its green-tariff counterpart
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Every publisher's quality rating system is read
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Every factor is filed under the most specific category its source allows
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Every factor has a category
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Every categorised factor has a GHG Protocol scope
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Single-gas values have their AR6 version
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No factor answers a question that does not arise for it
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What can I do with this data?

Open licence · Restricted licence · credit the publisher

miljoedeklaration

Open licence · cc-by-4.0

Use it to calculate my own footprint: Yes
Publish my footprint results: Yes, if
you credit the publisher
you say what you changed
Share the file with my customers: Yes, if
you credit the publisher
you say what you changed
Put the factors in a product I sell: Yes, if
you credit the publisher
you say what you changed
Modify it or combine it with my own data: Yes, if
you credit the publisher
you say what you changed

Named licence, checked on 2 Aug 2026

CC BY 4.0 §2(a)(1) grants the right to reproduce and Share the Licensed Material and to produce and Share Adapted Material, for any purpose, commercial included; §3(a) requires attribution and an indication of changes.

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Source: Energinet (www.energidataservice.dk), Miljødeklaration (location-based declaration), annual averages per price area 2015-2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/energinet/ (CC BY 4.0)

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eldeklaration

Restricted licence · energinet-eldeklaration-unstated

Use it to calculate my own footprint: Yes
Publish my footprint results: Yes, if
you credit the publisher
Share the file with my customers: Unclear: ask Energinet
Put the factors in a product I sell: Unclear: ask Energinet
Modify it or combine it with my own data: Unclear: ask Energinet

Statute, checked on 1 Oct 2026

No reuse terms on the history workbook or the audited PDF (headed "Til arbejdsbrug/Restricted"). The general declaration is a statutory publication (elmærkningsbekendtgørelsen, BEK nr. 1322 af 30/11/2010, section 6(3)) that every Danish supplier must reproduce "i uændret form" on its own website; that makes it public, not a reuse licence for a database. Withheld from open distribution until Energinet confirms in writing (IMP-0036).

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Source: Energinet, Generel eldeklaration (general electricity declaration), 2010-2025. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/energinet/ (CC BY 4.0)

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Methodology

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Both declarations are in g CO2e per kWh. We serve them in kg per kWh.
The environmental declaration blends Danish generation with imports hour by hour, so it describes the electricity consumed in the area, not only the electricity produced there.
Much Danish power comes from combined heat and power plants, which make electricity and district heat from the same fuel. Energinet prints two ways of splitting the fuel between them. The 125 % method charges the electricity with less of the fuel, the 200 % method with more, so the 200 % figure is always higher. Energinet recommends neither. Both load as separate factors; we name 125 % the default, because the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet's own residual declaration use it.
Methane and nitrous oxide are printed as gas masses. We state them as CO2e with the weights Energinet prints for the environmental declaration (28 for methane, 265 for nitrous oxide, IPCC AR5).
Energinet does not state the weights behind the residual mix, and they changed over the years. We read them from the figures: each year's total matches one IPCC table exactly or within rounding. That gives the Second Assessment Report for 2010 to 2012, AR4 for 2013 to 2018 and AR5 for 2020 to 2022, 2024 and 2025. For 2019 and 2023 no table matches, so those two years carry the total and the CO2 only, with the vintage marked unknown.
Biogenic CO2 is printed on its own row and is not in the total. We keep it beside the value, outside the headline.
Both declarations cover direct emissions from generation. Grid losses, the fuel supply chain and the construction of plants are not included in Energinet's figures. We add estimates of the first two as separate factors (see below).
The year of a value is the data year. For the residual mix it is the declaration year, which follows the certificate calendar (1 April to 31 March).

Data year: the calendar year of the declaration on the price-area factors; on the national residual, the declaration year, whose guarantees are cancelled from 1 April to 31 March.

What we import

The environmental declaration workbook, price areas DK1 and DK2, data years 2015 to 2025: four factors (two areas, two allocation methods), 11 values each.
The general declaration workbook, 2010 to 2025: one national factor with 16 residual values.
Beside each residual value, a market-based value of 0 for a green contract, which open-climate.ai adds and marks as assigned. Under the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance a certificate carries the emission factor of the plant that generated the electricity, which is 0 for wind, solar and hydro, the case this value stands for. A certificate from a plant that burns fuel, such as biomass, carries a factor above 0.
Not imported: the price-area figures for 2005 to 2014, which follow an older method with grid losses included and are kept in our archive; the figures per municipality; Energinet's third, combined allocation; and the hourly series.
The Danish names and descriptions are Energinet's own text. The English names are ours.

Beside the four price-area factors open-climate.ai adds three legs Energinet never printed, each as its own factor marked as an estimate: grid losses, the fuel chain (extracting, refining and transporting the fuel the plants burn) and the fuel chain of the losses, plus a delivered total per price-area factor. The national residual mix gets the fuel chain only and no delivered total. The losses are computed by a stated rule from Energinet's own loss figures for each price area and are rated low quality. The fuel chain uses Ember's generation mix for Denmark as a whole: it is rated very low quality on the price areas, which that national mix fits less closely, and low on the national residual mix. How the legs are estimated.

Licence

How this works

Two tiers. Open: the environmental declaration is reused under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, the terms of Energinet's Energi Data Service, which publishes the same data. The workbook itself carries no licence notice; this reading is ours. Attribution: "Source: Energinet (www.energidataservice.dk), Miljødeklaration (location-based declaration), annual averages per price area 2015-2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0." Changes: values converted from g/kWh to kg/kWh, methane and nitrous oxide stated as CO2e with Energinet's printed weights. Energinet does not endorse this use.

Restricted: Energinet states no reuse terms for the general declaration, a statutory document electricity suppliers republish unchanged. You can use the residual mix for your own footprint; we do not redistribute it in exports until Energinet grants more.

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Credit line: Source: Energinet (www.energidataservice.dk), Miljødeklaration (location-based declaration), annual averages per price area 2015-2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Changes: values converted from g/kWh to kg/kWh; methane and nitrous oxide stated as CO2e using the weights Energinet prints (28, 265). Energinet does not endorse this use.

Limitations

The location-based and market-based values answer different questions and must never be added.
The allocation method matters: in 2025 the 200 % figure is 9 % above the 125 % figure in DK1 (0.07414 against 0.06801 kg per kWh) and 17 % above it in DK2 (0.05048 against 0.04324).
Energinet states a tolerance of about 2 g per kWh on the price-area figures, and prints whole grams for 2015 to 2023.
The two areas differ: in 2025 DK2 is about a third lower than DK1 at 125 %. Use the area where the electricity is consumed.
The residual mix for 2025 is 0.348 kg per kWh, well above the location-based figures, because the renewable generation sold with certificates is taken out of it. The Danish residual mix published by the Association of Issuing Bodies differs from Energinet's for the same year; do not count both.
For 2019 and 2023 the residual mix has no methane or nitrous oxide value and no conversion to newer IPCC weights.
Tier: medium quality for Energinet's values (metered settlement data, with modelled imports); low or very low for the legs we estimate. How tiers are set.

Changelog

2026-10-05: first load. Price areas DK1 and DK2 for 2015 to 2025 under both allocation methods, and the national residual mix for 2010 to 2025 with a green value of 0 beside each year. Estimated grid-loss and fuel-chain legs, and a delivered total for each price-area factor.

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