Gate to gate life cycle inventory (LCI) data for the US national grid. Includes generation and transmission of electricity for US electricity grid. Representative of year 2008 mix of fuels used for utility electricity generation in US. Fuels include biomass, coal, petroleum, geothermal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, hydroelectric and wind energy sources.
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Data is derived from reports from EIA, IEA, US DOE, Statistics Canada, USEPA, and NERC. A methodology report is available online at the USLCI Database website (http://www.nrel.gov/lci/)
Data is also available with additional information and in ecospold (XLS and XML) formats at the USLCI Database website (http://www.nrel.gov/lci/).
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The dataset was generated during the graduation project of Luuk van Hagen "Life Cycle Assessment of Multi-Megawatt Airborne Wind Energy" at Delft University of Technology, completed on 8 July 2021. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:472a961d-1815-41f2-81b0-0c6245361efb
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Gate to gate life cycle inventory (LCI) data for the US national grid. Includes generation and transmission of electricity for US electricity grid. Representative of year 2008 mix of fuels used for utility electricity generation in US. Fuels include biomass, coal, petroleum, geothermal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, hydroelectric and wind energy sources.
This data was developed by:
Data is derived from reports from EIA, IEA, US DOE, Statistics Canada, USEPA, and NERC. A methodology report is available online at the USLCI Database website (http://www.nrel.gov/lci/)
Data is also available with additional information and in ecospold (XLS and XML) formats at the USLCI Database website (http://www.nrel.gov/lci/).