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Electricity maps - data driven decarbonisation

Electricity Maps' mission is to organise the world's electricity data to drive the transition towards a truly decarbonised electricity system. We provide carbon intensity data coming from electricity consumption for more than 200 zones in the world.

Driven by the urgent need to get rid of all fossil fuels, the world is in the midst of the most profound transformation in humankind's history. We envision a world where energy is provided by fossil-free electricity, every second of the year. Electricity Maps' mission is to enable a data-driven decarbonisation of electricity.To do that, we follow state-of-the-art approaches to collect data from official sources. When data is missing, we use a variety of techniques to estimate it. We then run our flow-tracing pipeline to determine how electricity (and its carbon intensity) flows between countries. This allows us to provide carbon intensity information for both production and consumption for each country. Our methodology follows these steps:

Collecting data - Our data sources (how we verify and collect our data).
How missing data is handled - Our estimation models.
Computing CO2 emissions - Carbon intensity and emission factors.
Data processing from collection to carbon intensity calculation.

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Electricity maps - data driven decarbonisation

Electricity Maps' mission is to organise the world's electricity data to drive the transition towards a truly decarbonised electricity system. We provide carbon intensity data coming from electricity consumption for more than 200 zones in the world. Driven by the urgent need to get rid of all fossil ...