Electrical impact factors
User declaration
Users can give their own impact factors.
Warning
We recommend using impact factors describing your national or regional electrical mix. An impact factor constructed from a market-based approach should not be used.
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The factor is given in the usage object of the request.
Boavizta's impact factors
Users can use the average impact factors per country available in BoaviztAPI.
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Impact factors will depend on the usage_location defined by the user in usage object. By default, the average european mix is used.
usage_location are given in a trigram format, according to the list of the available countries.
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Available countries can be retrieve using the API endpoint /v1/utils/country_code.
You can find bellow the data source and methodology used for each impact criteria.
GWP - Global warming potential factor
Source :
- For Europe (2019): Quantification of the carbon intensity of electricity produced and used in Europe
- For the rest of the world: Ember Climate
PE - Primary energy factor
Source :
PE impact factor are not available in open access. We use the consumption of fossil resources per kwh (APDf/kwh) per country and extrapolate this consumption to renewable energy :
PE/kwh = ADPf/kwh / (1-%RenewableEnergyInMix)
%RenewableEnergyInMix(2016): List of countries by renewable electricity production from IRENAADPf(2011): Base IMPACTS® ADEME
Other impact factors
| Criteria | Implemented | Source |
|---|---|---|
| adp | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| gwppb | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| gwppf | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| gwpplu | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| ir | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| lu | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| odp | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| pm | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| pocp | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| wu | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| mips | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| adpe | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| adpf | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| ap | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| ctue | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| ctuh_c | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| ctuh_nc | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| epf | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| epm | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
| ept | yes | Base IMPACTS® ADEME |
Electricity map integration
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