About this Dataset

2016 U.S. Electricity Generation Air Emissions, Hazardous Waste And Steam Emission Factors By Subregion

This dataset contain records factors for emissions and releases of chemicals to air, water and ground, waste generation, from electricity generation, All values are per megawatt-hour (MWh) of eletricity generated at power plants or other generating facilities.

Subregion is an acronym of a U.S. EPA eGRID subregion. See https://www.epa.gov/egrid

FlowName, Context, and Unit are defined as they are in the Flow table format specification for the U.S. EPA Standardized Inventories (StEWI) tool. https://github.com/USEPA/standardizedinventories/blob/master/format%20specs/Flow.md
FlowName is the name of the chemical, waste, input or product.
Chemical (context is air, water or ground) use the nomenclature of the Federal LCA Commons Elementary Flow List.
Wastes use the names for waste code descriptions from the 2017 RCRA Biennial Waste Report.
There are also "Heat" input and "Steam" co-product output factors. These names and data come from the eGRID 2016 database.

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Ghosh, T., W.W. Ingwersen, M. Jamieson, T.R. Hawkins, S. Cashman, T. Hottle, A. Carpenter, and K. Richa. Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT. Ecomed Verlagsgesellschaft AG, Landsberg, GERMANY, 28(2): 156-171, (2023).
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Last updated: 2023-03-25T06:08:55.426751
Tags: egrid, nei, rcrainfo, tri

Tables

Egrid Generationmix Efs Ijlca Elci

@usgov.epa_gov_2016_u_s_electricity_generation_air_emissions__77ed2907.egrid_generationmix_efs_ijlca_elci

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CREATE TABLE egrid_generationmix_efs_ijlca_elci (
  "subregion" VARCHAR,
  "flowname" VARCHAR,
  "emission_factor" DOUBLE,
  "compartment" VARCHAR,
  "unit" VARCHAR,
  "year" BIGINT
);