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Quarterly Release: USLCI - Spring 2021 Update

This release is intended as an augmentation to the normal fiscal quarter release scheduled for March 31, 2021, to align with several improvements going forward:

  • Addition of ACC updated PCV virgin resin unit process & updates to the PVC resin supply chain (e.g., EDC-VCM, chlorine, sodium hydroxide, hydrogen)
  • Addition of two updated Kodak-Alaris Office Scanner products and related China electricity grid mix average
  • Update and corrections to coal and natural gas extraction processes (inputs from nature values and/or heating values)
  • Correction to and/or establishment of default providers for all process exchanges with providers in the USLCI
  • Correction to some input and output magnitudes to account for 2017-2018 database migration unit conversion errors
  • Improvements to process, product, and elementary flow nomenclature standardization
  • Augmented some process and sources metadata (including hyperlinks, where available)

Please see the complete Change Log for details of all Spring 2021 updates.

Additionally, please note that current and deleted datasets are always also available in an archive managed by NREL (wherein current and previous USLCI database versions are available) at the USLCI Downloads Page.

Finally, please see the How to Publish in the USLCI section in the USLCI Data Submission Guidelines and/or contact the contact the USLCI Data Curator if you have any data/metadata publishing goals for the next June 30, 2021, Spring release date. We look forward to hearing from you soon.