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Life Cycle Assessment Commons

National Energy Technology Laboratory Releases the Electricity Baseline Repository

NETL’s Life Cycle Analysis Team, in collaboration with the EPA and NREL, has developed a new, open-source model to quantify baseline life cycle impacts of U.S. electricity consumption. The framework connects inventory data collected from various EPA reporting programs with fossil supply chain and non-fossil inventory data.

The model is compiled using the ElectricityLCI v1.0.1 (https://github.com/USEPA/ElectricityLCI) and provides consumption mixes for electricity reflective of 2016 at various levels of geographic resolution.