Emissions

Posted on 19th July 2010 by Stan Walerczyk in Uncategorized

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EMISSIONS BASED ON CALIFORNIA

California has a mix of mainly natural gas, hydro, wind, etc. generation.

The numbers would be much higher for parts of the country that burn a lot of coal to make electricity.

Pollutant	Emission Factors*
Oxides of Nitrogen (Nox)	0.00030
Carbon Monoxide (CO)	0.00041
Reactive Organic Gases (ROG)	0.00004
Respirable Particulate Matter (PM10)	0.00004
Oxides of Sulfphur (SOx)	0.00002
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)**	0.48910

Mulitply the emission factor by

KWH reduced to find pounds of pollutants avoided

* Based on ARB year 2000 California power grid emissions

(including polluting and non-polluting sources)

**Carbon Dioxide only based on Energy

Information Agency, Department of Energy

1998-2000 averaged California grid emissions

For more info:

ARB pollution fact sheet:

EPA – site specific

Greenhouse effect background sheet:

Greenhouse effect more details:

Thanks to Robert Ofsevit of Alamo Lighting and Ben Erpelding of San Diego Regional Energy Office for most of this information.

Lamp mercury information regarding LEED and in general is listed in ‘BEST PRACTICE REPORT’ listed in article page.