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Comment by dcahill-ieee | Hacker News Reader

This doesn’t show CO2 emissions. It just lists each country generation type and what that generation type produces per kWh. Where is the actual volume of CO2 per hour or per day?

This site would show 1 family on a little island with a coal furnace as worse than an entire nation burning gas.

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You can see the total generation for each country by clicking on the country, then hovering the mouse cursor over, for instance, the "origin of electricity over the last 24 hours".

So you can see that e.g. France at the moment generates (or uses? This calculation might be slightly off due to imports/exports...) 51.5 GW with a carbon intensity of 44 gCO2/kWh. Which means that currently France in total emits about 44 x 1e6 x 51.5 / 1e6 = 2266 metric tons of CO2 per hour.

By comparison, with the same kind of calculation Energiewende poster boy Germany generates 64.6 GW with a carbon intensity of 375 gCO2/kWh, leading to total emissions of 24225 tons of CO2 per hour. Ouch!

EDIT: As pointed out by the author below, you can click on the "emissions" tab and see total CO2 emissions (per minute though, not per hour) directly if you don't want to do the above calculations yourself!

Hi, electricityMap author here. When clicking on a country, just click "Emissions" and then you will see total volumes (tCO2/h) instead of intensity :)

EDIT: It's actually by minute.

- Olivier

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