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CA-ON (Ontario) Emission factors #4886

Closed pierresegonne closed 8 months ago

pierresegonne commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

What appear to be trustworthy emission factors have been computed for Ontario. See here and here for discussions.

Describe the solution you'd like Add the identified lifecycle emission factors for CA-ON

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The source for those should be (except for solar)

Mallia, Eric, and Geoffrey Lewis. "Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of electricity generation in the province of Ontario, Canada." The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18.2 (2013): 377-391.

with a link to https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-012-0501-0

MisterClean commented 1 year ago

🙋‍♂️ I'll take this one!

VIKTORVAV99 commented 1 year ago

Sure thing! I'll assign the issue to you and if you have any questions just ping me and I'll see what I can do.

Nil-Cipher commented 1 year ago

Does this still need help? @VIKTORVAV99

VIKTORVAV99 commented 1 year ago

Looks like it does as the other PR has gone stale. Feel free to pick this up but please take note of the feedback for the other PR.