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EXIOBASE energy accounts: Improving precision in an open‐sourced procedure applicable to any MRIO database

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  • Kajwan Rasul
  • Sarah Schmidt
  • Edgar G. Hertwich
  • Richard Wood

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As environmentally extended input–output tables are increasingly used for footprint and supply chain analysis, there has been a growing demand for precise, reliable, and intertemporally consistent environmental accounts. Energy accounts are particularly relevant. As well as providing insights into embodied energy, in the case of the multi‐regional input–output (MRIO) database EXIOBASE, they are the basis of the air emissions from fuel combustion. In this study we review previous methods and provide a more integrated and robust implementation for the EXIOBASE energy accounts that ensures higher levels of consistency between economic and physical data. Our results show that the new procedure significantly improves the precision of the energy use coefficients and multipliers, while reducing the number of outliers. The procedure is made publicly available for full transparency and made open source such that users and developers may raise issues and suggest improvements to the procedure. Furthermore, the procedure is standardized so it can be applied to any MRIO model with only minor adjustments to the input data.

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  • Kajwan Rasul & Sarah Schmidt & Edgar G. Hertwich & Richard Wood, 2024. "EXIOBASE energy accounts: Improving precision in an open‐sourced procedure applicable to any MRIO database," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 28(6), pages 1771-1785, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:inecol:v:28:y:2024:i:6:p:1771-1785
    DOI: 10.1111/jiec.13563
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