EPD-IES-0000088:003 (S-P-00088)

Electricity from Vattenfall’s Nordic Hydropower

Vattenfall AB owns or has majority share in 57 large-scale hydropower stations in the Nordic countries and 30 small-scale stations. The hydropower generation that Vattenfall Vattenkraft AB disposes during an average year is 32 TWh. Several reservoirs enable the generation to follow the load curve, and electricity can be delivered without backup sources.

This EPD reflects the representative average environmental impact from Vattenfall’s Nordic hydropower based on a representative selection of fourteen stations; thirteen in Sweden and one in Finland.

The declared unit is 1 kWh of electricity net generated and thereafter distributed to a customer.

Registration numberEPD-IES-0000088:003 (S-P-00088)
StatusValid
Initial version date2005-03-01
Validity date2031-01-12
PCR2007:08 Electricity, steam and hot/cold water generation and distribution 5.0.0
Standards conformanceISO 14025:2006
Geographical scopeSweden, Finland
LCA PractitionerYevgeniya Arushanyan