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Update electricity impact factors

Open demeringo opened this issue 8 months ago • 2 comments

Problem

The documentation states that for usage impacts, the PE factor comes from IRENA (2016). API doc link https://doc.api.boavizta.org/Explanations/usage/elec_factors/

However the wikipedia article states that data is from 2021 (which I also remember from our past exchanges). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production

We are likely serving slightly outdated factors.

Solution

Short term:

  • update factors with latest data avaialble (likely 2021)

Long term:

  • discuss a way we could ease it or automate it.

Alternatives

Workaround 1: use a custom version of API with updated factors

Workaround 2: pass directly custom factors when calling the API

Additional context or elements

  • Factors are defined in boaviztapi/boaviztapi/data/crowdsourcing/electrical_mix.csv

  • Adrien mentions that the data was likely extracted from the source DB using SQL query that mentions 2016.

Linked issue is

https://github.com/Boavizta/boaviztapi/issues/117

demeringo avatar Jun 14 '24 14:06 demeringo