Hi,
We are working on an EPD for a construction material which means that we will need to use residual electricity mix for the calculations.
I read that Ecoinvent has been involved in the work of AIB to calculate European residual mixes, are there any plan to include residual mixes for specific countries in coming versions of Ecoinvent?
I also wonder if there are any guidelines or suggestions on how to model residual mix based on Ecoinvent data and statistics from AIB.
Thanks for support!
Good morning,
I have the same problem. Please let me know how I can manage it in the meantime that you will find a solution to include residual mixes for specific countries.
Thank you for your support
Dear Users,
Thank you for reaching out to us. You are correct, that currently ecoinvent does not provide residual electricity mixes. We do plan on integrating residual mixes in ecoinvent, however I cannot give you a forecast on its availability as this is not an official project yet. Please apologize the vague information. Thus we also cannot provide any guidelines for their calculation. We can suggest to model the residual mixes similar to our current electricity markets, using the shares given by the AIB statistics and using our country-specific electricity production datasets. Although you need to define technology splits for some of the categories in the residual mixes as we do not have a 1:1 match for all categories in the database. E.g. for 'Nuclear Total' we have dataset for boiling water and pressure water reactors.
Best regards on behalf of the ecoinvent team,
Johannes Müller, Data Analyst, ecoinvent association