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The Global Power Emissions Database, GPED, is a new database of global fossil fuel- and biomass-burning power-generating plants and their emissions as of 2010. GPED is based on the WEPP database to compile the basic operational information of generators, and replaced basic information and also added emissions data for plants operating in the U.S., China and India using the more comprehensive and reliable data contained in the regional databases eGRID (available at: https://www.epa.gov/energy/egrid), CPED (Liu et al., 2015) and ICPD (Lu et al., 2012 and 2013), respectively. The development of the GPED was led by Tsinghua University (Qiang Zhang) with input from Argonne National Laboratory (Zifeng Lu and David Streets).

GPED database encompasses 231 countries or regions and all generating units that burn coal, oil, natural gas, biomass, or other fuels with their emissions of CO₂, NO_x, SO₂, and primary PM_2.5 as of 2010.

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Qiang Zhang (qiangzhang@tsinghua.edu.cn) and Dr. Dan Tong (td13@tsinghua.org.cn) in Tsinghua University.

References:
Tong, D., Q. Zhang, S. J. Davis, F. Liu, B. Zheng, G. N. Geng, T. Xue, M. Li, C. P. Hong, Z. Lu, D. G. Streets, D. B. Guan, and K. B. He (2018), Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units, Nat. Sustain., 1, 59-68.
Liu, F., Zhang, Q., Tong, D., Zheng, B., Li, M., Huo, H., and He, K. B.: High-resolution inventory of technologies, activities, and emissions of coal-fired power plants in China from 1990 to 2010, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 13299-13317, doi:10.5194/acp-15-13299-2015, 2015.
Lu, Z., and Streets, D. G. Increase in NOx emissions from Indian thermal power plants during 1996–2010: unit-based inventories and multisatellite observations. Environ. Sci. Technol. 46, 7463-7470 (2012).
Lu, Z., Streets, D. G., de Foy, B., and Krotkov, N. A. Ozone Monitoring Instrument observations of interannual increases in SO₂ emissions from Indian coal-fired power plants during 2005–2012. Environ. Sci. Technol. 47, 13993-14000 (2013).

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• GPED is restricted to non-commercial purposes.
• Papers, reports or products using the GPED data should cite the related publications of GPED.

Data download >

GPED v1.0 emissions by plants:
GPED_emissions_summary_v1.0

GPED v1.0 gridded emissions
 CO₂     SO₂     NO_x     PM_2.5

Citation >

The GPED database should be cited as:

Tong, D., Q. Zhang, S. J. Davis, F. Liu, B. Zheng, G. N. Geng, T. Xue, M. Li, C. P. Hong, Z. Lu, D. G. Streets, D. B. Guan, and K. B. He (2018), Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units, Nat. Sustain., 1, 59-68.