Electricity marginal emissions factor estimates project

Setup and Dependencies

This code uses Python 3. To install all Python-related dependencies, use environment.yml file.

conda install git
git clone https://github.com/nomineb/mef.git
conda update conda
cd mef
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate mef

Usage

The pipeline to generate formatted CEMS data, aggregated by different spatial options, run for the year of interest (2022 in this case):

cd src
python data_pipeline.py --year 2022

The downloaded raw data will be stored in data/downloads and the process and aggregated data will be in data/outputs.

After that, in order to calculate the factors, run the following command. --factorType argument takes in two options: average or marginal.

python get_factor_estimates.py --factorType marginal --year 2022

The results will be stored in data/results/.