Real-time carbon accounting method for the European electricity markets

By Bo Tranberg, Olivier Corradi, Bruno Lajoie, Thomas Gibon, Iain Staffell, Gorm Bruun Andresen. Energy Strategy Reviews, 2018

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Electricity accounts for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing emissions related to electricity consumption requires accurate measurements readily available to consumers, regulators and investors. In this case study, we propose a new real-time consumption-based accounting approach based on flow tracing. This method traces power flows from producer to consumer thereby representing the underlying physics of the electricity system, in contrast to the traditional input-output models of carbon accounting. With this method we explore the hourly structure of electricity trade across Europe in 2017, and find substantial differences between production and consumption intensities. This emphasizes the importance of considering cross-border flows for increased transparency regarding carbon emission accounting of electricity.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering

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1. Joelle Pineau
2. Dan Jurafsky
3. Gorm Bruun Andresen
4. Emma Brunskill
5. Peter Henderson
6. Aimee van Wynsberghe

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1. Joelle Pineau
2. Gorm Bruun Andresen
3. Bo Tranberg
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Citations in the corpus

• Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning (2020, methodology): “We note that electricitymap.org estimates are based on a closed-source system and uses the methodology described by Tranberg et al. (2019).”
• Short-term CO2 emissions forecasting based on decomposition approaches and its impact on electricity market scheduling (2020, methodology): “This data for 2017 was the foundation for [16], where a real-time carbon accounting method was proposed for the European electricity markets.”