CO2-footprint of MPCDF
Information about power consumption at MPCDF
MPCDF receives its electricity through the Max Planck Institut for Plasmaphysics (IPP).
The IPP-contracts with the electricity providers usually run over a period of three years,
i.e. from 2015 to 2017, from 2018 to 2020, and currently from 2021 to 2023.
Table of Energy Consumption by Year and CO2 footprint *
| Year |
Energy Consumption
[GWh] |
HPC
[%] |
CO
2
of previous year
[g/kWh] or [t/GWh] |
Total CO
2
-Emission
[t]
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 |
42.8758
|
61.0
|
239
|
9,861.4
|
| 2021 |
41.2314
|
61.0
|
199
|
8,205.0
|
| 2020 |
36.9216
|
60.5
|
276
|
10,190.5
|
| 2019 |
31.5842
|
58.7
|
303
|
9,570.0
|
| 2018 |
28.3808
|
58.8
|
289
|
8,202.1
|
| 2017 |
23.8052
|
50.9
|
383
|
9,117.3
|
| 2016 |
21.6220
|
47.6
|
380
|
8,216.4
|
| 2015 |
19.7659
|
46.3
|
447
|
8,835.4
|
* Since only the numbers of the previous year are easily and timely available, these numbers are taken to calculate the CO2 footprint of MPCDF computing resources in each year.
** Number of pre-previous year. Numbers of previous year available earliest by November.
Distribution of Electricity Generation*
| Year |
CO
2
[t/GWh]
|
Nuclear [%]
|
Fossile [%]
|
Green [%]
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 |
239 (350)
|
8.1 (12.9)
|
31.7 (41.9)
|
60.2 (45.2)
|
| 2020 |
199 (310)
|
6.8 (12.4)
|
27.9 (38.6)
|
65.3 (49.0)
|
| 2019 |
276 (352)
|
11.1 (13.5)
|
33.1 (42.2)
|
55.8 (44.3)
|
| 2018 |
303 (421)
|
8.8 (13.0)
|
37.5 (48.8)
|
53.7 (38.2)
|
| 2017 |
289 (435)
|
9.0 (13.0)
|
39.0 (50.0)
|
52.0 (37.0)
|
| 2016 |
383 (471)
|
9.6 (14.3)
|
44.5 (53.7)
|
45.9 (32.0)
|
| 2015 |
380 (476)
|
11.1 (15.4)
|
42.7 (52.8)
|
46.2 (31.8)
|
| 2014 |
447 (508)
|
14.0 (16.8)
|
45.7 (55.3)
|
40.3 (27.9)
|
* Values according to the electricity providers (values for Germany in parenthesis):
2014-2016: e.vita
2017-2019: EnergieDeutschland
2020-2022: DREWAG