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Environment

Carbon Intensity of Electricity Generation

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2013

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

NEA (National Environment Agency)

Carbon intensity of electricity generation by Year

Data explorer

CarbonIntensityofElectricityGeneration.csv (7 rows, 132 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Carbon Intensity Of Electricity Generation Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2007	0.5109
2008	0.5027
2009	0.5042
2010	0.5154
2011	0.5146
2012	0.4912
2013	0.4499

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Carbon Intensity Of Electricity Generation	carbon_intensity_of_electricity_generation	Numeric	kgCO2 / kWh	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bc140b67a8708ba19c39d69182893f31"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

National Environment Agency. (2015). Carbon Intensity of Electricity Generation (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bc140b67a8708ba19c39d69182893f31/view

About this dataset

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Created on

21 May 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

NEA (National Environment Agency)