Hello. Great work here. Thanks.
To the best of my understanding, over the last few months Amazon has significantly increased it's portfolio of renewable energy projects. These can be seen here: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/about/around-the-globe?energyType=true
In addition to this, AWS report that:
Src: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud?energyType=true
Given this, Is there a method (or would you seek a method) to combine this data into /data/grid-emissions-factors-aws.csv ?
For example would there be an issue with setting the CO2e to zero for each of the regions listed above, and making reductions to other regions where Amazon has local renewable energy projects?
Thoughts?
>>> RESPONSE FROM David Mytton
Thanks for the question. Currently, the grid factors are used based on public data for the local region. RECs / REGOs have no impact on the carbon factor because they're market instruments, which is why the local emissions factors are used. Deploying new clean energy to the grid would reduce the overall grid emissions factor rather than zeroing the emissions for a specific cloud region (or DC).
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