Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Electricity production is one of the largest sources of environmental emissions-especially greenhouse gases (GHGs)-in the USA. Emission factors (EFs) vary from region to region, which requires the use of spatially relevant EF data for electricity production while performing life cycle assessments (LCAs). Uncertainty information, which is sought by LCA practitioners, is rarely supplied with available life cycle inventories (LCIs).

Methods

To address these challenges, we present a method for collecting data from different sources for electricity generation and environmental emissions; discuss the challenges involved in agglomerating such data; provide relevant suggestions and solutions to merge the information; and calculate EFs for electricity generation processes fro

SUBMITTER: Ghosh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9990895 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature