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Life Cycle Assessment Commons

USLCI Quarterly Release: Winter 2023 Update

The USLCI Winter Quarter 2023 release is ready. The new release is available on the Federal LCA Commons in the NREL USLCI group repository:  https://www.lcacommons.gov/, and the update in openLCA zolca and JSON-LD formats can also be downloaded from the USLCI GitHub Support Content Downloads page. 

 

Overview of USLCI 2023 Winter Quarter Changes:

  • Updated natural gas extraction processes
  • Updated natural gas extraction mixture process
  • Fixed database validation errors caused due missing natural gas flows
  • Deleted multiple orphan flows and the tar Technosphere flow

 

More details are available in the USLCI Press Release brief. The Change Log is here and USLCI Content Support is available at https://github.com/uslci-admin/uslci-content/wiki, which includes access to archived versions of the USLCI.   

Please see the "How to Publish in the USLCI" section in the USLCI Data Submission Handbook and/or contact the USLCI Data Curator (uslci@erg.com) if you have any USLCI publishing goals for the next release date, March 31, 2024.

Please contact lci@nrel.gov and/or uslci@erg.com with any questions or concerns you may have about submitting data to the USLCI Database.

To be added to the USLCI updates please email us at USLCI@erg.com. 

Thank you for your continued support!