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Table 8 CO2 emission factors for district heating and electricity

From: Techno-economic and environmental analysis of an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) in Germany

CO2 emission factor

Minimum

Mode

Maximum

Electricity (t/MWh)a, b

0.357

0.417

0.476

District heating (t/MWh)b, c

0.068

0.10

0.24

  1. aEnbW (2017), bStadtwerke Karlsruhe (2017), cFair Energy (2018)