Power Statistics - 2010 Edition - Full Report - Eurelectric

Environment
5.3 Comments
AUSTRIA (at)
According to data of the federal environmental agency a decoupling of electricity production and GHGemissions
has been observed over the last years. From 1990 to 2007 the amount of GHG-emissions from
public electricity and heat production decreased by 3.8% per year while electricity production increased
in absolute terms by 23% and heat production by 129,1%.
Energy supply was responsible for 16% of overall GHG-emissions in Austria in 2007. The major part
of the national GHG emissions falls upon the sectors of transport and industries with approximately
30% of overall GHG emissions each.
GERMANy (de)
The figures in Table 5.2 only contain the emissions from electricity generation of the public supply sector
respectively electricity generating companies. The emissions of autoproducers are not included.
The SO 2 emissions of the public utilities in 2008 amount to 132,000 tons. This means a reduction
of 94% compared to 1990 when public utility power plants emitted about 2 million tons of SO 2 .
NO x emissions were reduced by 51% in the same period. CO 2 emissions from electricity production
slightly increased by 2.4%. Reasons for the increase are a growing electricity production in absolute
terms and statistical regrouping of power plants formerly grouped at autoproducers, now classified in
the public supply sector. Overall, specific CO 2 emissions in Germany declined substantially in Germany
since 1990.
SPAIN (es)
Table 5.1: brown coal plants will burn imported coal from 2010.
Table 5.2: it can be seen that the CO 2 emissions correspond to the total electricity generation of Spain,
including electricity and CHP plants of any size. Only 50% of the CO 2 emissions of CHP plants have been
assigned to electricity generated by such plants (this assumption also applies to CHP fuel consumption).
The SO 2 and NO x future emission data have been estimated taking into account the expected evolution
of the corresponding international protocols and their implementation in the European Union.
FINLAND (fi)
Unfortunately future estimations of emission in power production are not available.
FRANCE (fr)
Data was provided by CITEPA, the French Institute in charge of national emission inventories. Most of the
data can be found on www.citepa.org in the annual SECTEN emission inventory report. CO 2 emissions
cover only the emission from combustion.
The emission and consumption figures include France and Corsica and do not include overseas
departments. Only electricity generation from centralised power production is considered (i.e. district
heating is not taken into account).
Projections on fuels consumption and CO 2 emissions are taken from the 2009 national reporting for
UNFCCC (energy scenario “Grenelle central”).
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