Location: CH - Switzerland
Assumption for electricity production of photovoltaic plants with good performance. Average performance is lower while optimum performance would be higher. Total capacity in Switzerland for the year 2005 was 23.8 MWp. Dataset can be used for comparison of energy technologies in Switzerland, but not for assessment of average production patterns. Yield data must be corrected for the installations used in other countries.
[The full documentation of this dataset was originally provided in the corresponding ecoinvent report from the Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, which is accessible for free to guests and users of ecoinvent version 2 (https://www.ecoinvent.org/login-databases.html). The dataset may subsequently have been subjected to central changes to the database, as described in the respective change report for each new release.]
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.