Scope 2 Factors
The location-based Scope 2 emission factor is the number a company multiplies its metered electricity by for the purchased-electricity line of a CSRD, SECR or CDP disclosure. This is the open stand-in for it, for every country, with its vintage and its revision history: a grid average like the standard's, but a lifecycle one in CO₂e, so it counts the emissions upstream of the plant as well and reads higher than a generation-only factor.
Countries with a factor
Newest factor year
Countries at that year
Spread across grids >10 TWh
The same site reports a different number on address alone
Latest grid emission factor, gCO₂e per kWh (900 or more shown as 900)
Among grids over 10 TWh the factor runs from Ethiopia at 23.1 g per kWh to Turkmenistan at 1,306 g. Under CSRD that figure is audited, and companies buy the generation-only version of this table from consultancies and the IEA. The reference table →
"The latest factor" is not one year
Insisting on this year's factor covers under half the world; accepting last year's covers almost all of it. The cut-off is a choice about how much of the world a filing leaves out. Vintage and restatements →
Where the power is used is not where the emissions land
The twelve sites here are invented, the only fabricated data in this warehouse. The factors they are multiplied by are real.
Lyon and Göteborg draw 17% of the group's electricity and report under 2% of its emissions; Pune, Katowice and Suzhou report far more than they draw. The calculation is only MWh times the factor; the grid does the rest. The worked example →
Lifecycle, location-based, annual and production-based. Upstream emissions included, no contracts, no hourly matching, no electricity trade: each is a reason this factor differs from what a company's filed Scope 2 line, its market-based line or a 24/7 claim would say. What the factor is not →
carbon_intensity_elec, from Ember's lifecycle estimates), modelled as
marts.dim_grid_emission_factors and snapshotted as
history.snap_grid_emission_factors. The GHG Protocol
Scope 2 Guidance is the
standard this page refers to. Nothing here is advice on how to file.