Exiobase energy accounts

Improving precision in an open‐sourced procedure applicable to any MRIO database

Bibliographic Data

ID19467640
AuthorsKajwan Rasul (0000-0001-9853-4032, Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway, corresponding author), Sarah Schmidt (0000-0001-5828-9052, Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway), Edgar G Hertwich (0000-0002-4934-3421, Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway), Richard Wood (0000-0002-7906-3324, Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway)
Year2024
Volume28
Issue6
Pages1771-1785
Publication date2024-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Industrial Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1088-1980 • E-ISSN: 1530-9290
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/jiec.13563
OpenAlexW4403250105
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited25

As environmentally extended input–output tables are increasingly used for footprint and supply chain analysis, there has been a growing demand for precise, reliable, and intertemporally consistent environmental accounts. Energy accounts are particularly relevant. As well as providing insights into embodied energy, in the case of the multi‐regional input–output (MRIO) database EXIOBASE, they are the basis of the air emissions from fuel combustion. In this study we review previous methods and provide a more integrated and robust implementation for the EXIOBASE energy accounts that ensures higher levels of consistency between economic and physical data. Our results show that the new procedure significantly improves the precision of the energy use coefficients and multipliers, while reducing the number of outliers. The procedure is made publicly available for full transparency and made open source such that users and developers may raise issues and suggest improvements to the procedure. Furthermore, the procedure is standardized so it can be applied to any MRIO model with only minor adjustments to the input data

Database · Industrial ecology · Sustainability · Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Computer Science · Environmental Impact and Sustainability

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