Long-run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity - Workbooks for 2021 Cambium Data

Dataset · Wed Jan 05 04:00:00 EST 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.7799/1838370· OSTI ID:1838370

Gagnon, Pieter ^[1]; Hale, Elaine ^[2]; Cole, Wesley ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2. Grid Planning and Analysis Center

These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. The LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a long-term (i.e., more than several years) change in electrical demand. It incorporates both the projected changes to the electric grid, as well as the potential for an incremental change in electrical demand to influence the structural evolution of the grid (i.e., the building and retiring of capital assets, such as generators and transmission lines). It is therefore distinct from the more-commonly-known short-run marginal, which treats grid assets as fixed. The Levelized LRMER worksheet within each workbook is set up to produce a levelized long-run marginal emission rate based on user-provided inputs. These levelized LRMER values are intended for analysts to use when estimating the emissions induced (or avoided) by a long-term change in end-use electricity demand. There are two workbooks that supply the data at two different geographic resolutions: states and GEA regions (20 regions that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the US EPA's eGRID regions). For more data underlying these emissions factors, see the Cambium 2021 project at https://cambium.nrel.gov/. For more details on the inputs into the scenarios available in the workbooks, see the Standard Scenarios 2021 Report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80641.pdf). This data was produced as part of the Cambium project. For more details about the methodology, see the Cambium Documentation: Version 2021 (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81611.pdf). This data is planned to be updated annually. Information on the latest versions can be found at https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/cambium.html.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• OSTI ID: 1838370
• Report Number(s): FY21 AOP 2.4.0.1
• Availability: [e-mail]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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