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CO2 Emissions Life Cycle in the Swiss GO system

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Leo Robert

From now on, the Swiss GO system “calculates for all electricity marking depreciations per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced the greenhouse gas emissions in kg CO2 equivalent (kg CO2 eq.) over the life cycle of the product and the ecological load units (ELU)”.

What does this change?

Before, the Swiss GO system was considering the CO2 emissions for GOs, but only those emitted during the production of electricity, not the whole life cycle of production. Now, electricity producers emitting Swiss GOs can present to their clients the CO2 ­­­life cycles of their electricity production.

The values to calculate the CO­2 ­emissions of one GO are available