Electricity and natural gas data sourcing, emissions

[LimerickSam]

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[LimerickSam]

You're right, eGRID MROW emissions are just lbs., so not a CO2e for CH4 and N2O. They do provide a catch-all CO2e number that we can use directly if we so choose, rather than calculating via GWP.

And that run order is correct!

One thing to note about cprg_emissions_county.RDS$category -- all of the electricity is tagged as residential, but our figures are ALL electricity/natural gas use, residential and non-residential.

Thanks for your super thorough review and beautiful organization work.

[eroten]

Oh, okay so do we need to multiply by CH4 and N2O by their GWP to get CO2e in processed_mn_electric and processed_wi_electric?

[LimerickSam]

Yes, or we could just add the factor for CO2e eGRID provides that covers all of the gases! 1003.1 for the MROW sub region covering our study area