Tracing carbon dioxide emissions in the European electricity markets
Abstract
Consumption-based carbon emission measures aim to account for emissions associated with power transmission from distant regions, as opposed to measures which only consider local power generation. Outlining key differences between two different methodological variants of this approach, we report results on consumption-based emission intensities of power generation for European countries from 2016 to 2019. We find that in particular for well connected smaller countries, the consideration of imports has a significant impact on the attributed emissions. For these countries, implicit methodological choices in the input-output model are reflected in both hourly and average yearly emission measures.
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@article{arxiv.2008.00893,
title = {Tracing carbon dioxide emissions in the European electricity markets},
author = {Mirko Schäfer and Bo Tranberg and Dave Jones and Anke Weidlich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.00893},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Accepted conference proceedings paper for the EEM 2020