Biomass emission factors

[Stefhis974]

Dear all,

I went on the Electricity map website to better understand the recently announced emissions factors update. I am quite puzzled about the emisssion factor value for biomass power plant in Europe. It is stated that “Direct biomass emissions are generally accounted as 0 (See [BEIS 2021]). We have therefore accounted reported emissions from power plants as upstream emissions. » But in the EU ETS, biomass combustion is accounted to 0. Thus emissions reported in the EU ETS for a so called biomass power plant means that the plant runs under a co-combustion mode ie burning biomass + fossils fuels and reported emissions are due to the combustion of fossil fuels. Nothing to do with the biomass life cycle. In one of your file, you mentioned about a biomass to power plant in France that is reported to emit more than 800 gr CO2/KWh in 2021. In fact the plant did run mostly on coal in 2021.

I really believe that there an issue here since your emissions factors for biomass plant are not life cycle emissions factors but rather co-combustion emissions. This is very different, but I may be wrong. Let me know your views on this.

Best Regards.