<p>About 900 grammes of CO2 for each 1kWh of electricity.</p>

<p>There is some variation: very modern super-critical coal plants can be lower. But 900g is a reasonable central estimate.</p>

<p>Note that that's just CO2 from combustion. It can be higher, when we include CO2 and CH4 emissions from the rest of the coal supply chain too.</p>

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<p>I’m interested to know how much Co2 is generated by a coal fired power station to produce 1kWh of electricity for electrical grid </p>

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Welcome at EarthScience.SE. Which resources did you use in trying to answer the question on your own? Looking for _"co2 emissions coal fire plant per kwh"_ in your favorite search engine should yield a huge heap of useful results. It looks a bit like a homework question. Moreover, I am not sure whether this question is in the scope of EarthScience.SE. I am voting to close this question.
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I'm not sure if it's on-topic here or not, but it would certainly be on topic at sustainability.stackexchange.com. I suggest asking there!
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@ben if you want, you could flag it for mode attention, and ask for migration to [sustainability.se]
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Roughly how much Co2 is generated per kWh of electricity generated
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# Roughly how much Co2 is generated per kWh of electricity generated

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-04)

I’m interested to know how much Co2 is generated by a coal fired power station to produce 1kWh of electricity for electrical grid

**Tags:** environmental-protection, coal

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Welcome at EarthScience.SE. Which resources did you use in trying to answer the question on your own? Looking for _"co2 emissions coal fire plant per kwh"_ in your favorite search engine should yield a huge heap of useful results. It looks a bit like a homework question. Moreover, I am not sure whether this question is in the scope of EarthScience.SE. I am voting to close this question.  
> **username_2**: I'm not sure if it's on-topic here or not, but it would certainly be on topic at sustainability.stackexchange.com. I suggest asking there!  
> **username_3**: @username_0 if you want, you could flag it for mode attention, and ask for migration to [sustainability.se]  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2017-12-05. Score: 1

About 900 grammes of CO2 for each 1kWh of electricity.

There is some variation: very modern super-critical coal plants can be lower. But 900g is a reasonable central estimate.

Note that that's just CO2 from combustion. It can be higher, when we include CO2 and CH4 emissions from the rest of the coal supply chain too.


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