What emissions factors are recommended for electricity in the U.S. Local Government Operations Protocol?
• In order to align with emissions factors in use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA), and California Climate Action Registry (CCAR), and The Climate Registry (TCR), the new protocols have opted to recommend electricity emissions factors provided by the EPA as part of eGRID as the default factors for use in the U.S. under the Local Government Operations Protocol. The protocol also provides guidance on employing an optional utility-specific emissions factor. The recommendation to use these factors is a change from guidance provided by ICLEI in the past. ICLEI suggests that members begin to use the eGRID electricity emission factors for inventories of government operations and communities. CACP can be easily updated to utilize these factors. We will be providing guidance on how to implement these changes before the final publication of the U.S. Local Government Operations Protocol. The next CACP update will likely change the default coefficients for electricity to those pr
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