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Table 1 Life-cycle GHG emission for power plants, expressed in gCO2eq/kWh

From: Household CO2-efficient energy management

Biomass

Solar PV

Wind onshore

Wind offshore

Geothermal

Pumped-Storage

71

43

8

9

45 *

34

Run-of-the-river

Reservoir

Nuclear

Lignite

Coal

Coal-derived gas

4

9

11

820

800

800

Gas

Oil

Waste

Other

  

400

520

690 **

247

  
  1. The main source for these values is (Weisser 2007). Values marked with * are taken from (Edenhofer et al. 2011), and those marked with ** are from (Johnke 2009). Since it is not specified which sources are included in “Other”, the life-cycle GHG emission factor for this category is calculated as the mean value of all other known factors
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