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Summary[edit]

Amount of greenhouse gases (as equivalent grams of CO₂) produced by different power plants per kWh of energy produced, in order of medians from worst to best.

Data from Wikipedia's Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources, which in turn is from IPCC 2014[1][2] with some artistic license by me:

  • Combined both types of wind
  • Combined both types of solar PV
  • Combined all 4 types of CCS and called it "wp:Clean coal" (since CCS is on that page)
  • Abbreviated labels so they didn't need to be at an angle
  • Bars are median, error bars are min and max (hydro goes up to 2200, probably from the huge amounts of methane produced when you drown an entire countryside and it rots underwater)

Data[edit]

Technology	Min	Median	Max
Coal		740	820	910
Gas		410	490	650
Biomass		130	230	420
Clean coal	94	188	340
Solar PV	18	45	180
Geo		6	38	79
Solar CSP	9	27	63
Hydro		1	24	2200
Ocean		6	17	28
Nuclear		4	12	110
Wind		7	12	56

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