Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity - Workbooks for 2021 Cambium Data
These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. The LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a long-term (i.e., more than several years) change in electrical demand. It incorporates both the projected changes to the electric grid, as well as the potential for an incremental change in electrical demand to influence the structural evolution of the grid (i.e., the building and retiring of capital assets, such as generators and transmission lines). It is therefore distinct from the more-commonly-known short-run marginal, which treats grid assets as fixed. The Levelized LRMER worksheet within each workbook is set up to produce a levelized long-run marginal emission rate based on user-provided inputs. These levelized LRMER values are intended for analysts to use when estimating the emissions induced (or avoided) by a long-term change in end-use electricity demand. There are two workbooks that supply the data at two different geographic resolutions: states and GEA regions (20 regions that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the US EPA's eGRID regions). For more data underlying these emissions factors, see the Cambium 2021 project at https://cambium.nrel.gov/. For more details on the inputs into the scenarios available in the workbooks, see the Standard Scenarios 2021 Report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80641.pdf). This data was produced as part of the Cambium project. For more details about the methodology, see the Cambium Documentation: Version 2021 (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81611.pdf). This data is planned to be updated annually. Information on the latest versions can be found at https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/cambium.html.
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AB - These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. The LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a long-term (i.e., more than several years) change in electrical demand. It incorporates both the projected changes to the electric grid, as well as the potential for an incremental change in electrical demand to influence the structural evolution of the grid (i.e., the building and retiring of capital assets, such as generators and transmission lines). It is therefore distinct from the more-commonly-known short-run marginal, which treats grid assets as fixed. The Levelized LRMER worksheet within each workbook is set up to produce a levelized long-run marginal emission rate based on user-provided inputs. These levelized LRMER values are intended for analysts to use when estimating the emissions induced (or avoided) by a long-term change in end-use electricity demand. There are two workbooks that supply the data at two different geographic resolutions: states and GEA regions (20 regions that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the US EPA's eGRID regions). For more data underlying these emissions factors, see the Cambium 2021 project at https://cambium.nrel.gov/. For more details on the inputs into the scenarios available in the workbooks, see the Standard Scenarios 2021 Report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80641.pdf). This data was produced as part of the Cambium project. For more details about the methodology, see the Cambium Documentation: Version 2021 (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81611.pdf). This data is planned to be updated annually. Information on the latest versions can be found at https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/cambium.html.
AU - Gagnon
A2 - Hale
A3 - Cole
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - greenhouse gas emissions
KW - ReEDS
KW - Long-run
KW - Marginal emissions
KW - Cambium
KW - NREL
KW - PLEXOS
LA - English
DA - 2022/01/05
PY - 2022
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity - Workbooks for 2021 Cambium Data
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8238
ER -
Gagnon, et al. Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity - Workbooks for 2021 Cambium Data. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 5 January, 2022, NREL. https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/183.
Gagnon, Hale, & Cole. (2022). Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity - Workbooks for 2021 Cambium Data. [Data set]. NREL. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/183
Gagnon, Hale, and Cole. Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity - Workbooks for 2021 Cambium Data. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, January, 5, 2022. Distributed by NREL. https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/183
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8238,
title = {Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity - Workbooks for 2021 Cambium Data},
author = {Gagnon and Hale and Cole},
abstractNote = {These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. The LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a long-term (i.e., more than several years) change in electrical demand. It incorporates both the projected changes to the electric grid, as well as the potential for an incremental change in electrical demand to influence the structural evolution of the grid (i.e., the building and retiring of capital assets, such as generators and transmission lines). It is therefore distinct from the more-commonly-known short-run marginal, which treats grid assets as fixed.\ The Levelized LRMER worksheet within each workbook is set up to produce a levelized long-run marginal emission rate based on user-provided inputs. These levelized LRMER values are intended for analysts to use when estimating the emissions induced (or avoided) by a long-term change in end-use electricity demand.\ There are two workbooks that supply the data at two different geographic resolutions: states and GEA regions (20 regions that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the US EPA's eGRID regions).\ For more data underlying these emissions factors, see the Cambium 2021 project at https://cambium.nrel.gov/. For more details on the inputs into the scenarios available in the workbooks, see the Standard Scenarios 2021 Report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80641.pdf).\ This data was produced as part of the Cambium project. For more details about the methodology, see the Cambium Documentation: Version 2021 (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81611.pdf).\ This data is planned to be updated annually. Information on the latest versions can be found at https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/cambium.html.},
url = {https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/183},
year = {2022},
howpublished = {NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/183},
note = {Accessed: 2025-05-04}
}
Details
Data from Jan 5, 2022
Last updated Jan 21, 2025
Submitted Jan 5, 2022
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Pieter Gagnon
Authors
Original Source
https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/183Research Areas
Keywords
greenhouse gas emissions, ReEDS, Long-run, Marginal emissions, Cambium, NREL, PLEXOSDOE Project Details
Project Name Cambium
Project Number FY21 AOP 2.4.0.1