How We Built a Per-Plant CO2 Dataset for 4,551 Power Stations Worldwide

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An open dataset of 4,551 power stations: measured + modelled CO2, fuel, owner, capacity and climate zone. How we built it in Python, and the honest limits.
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The authors built and openly published a dataset covering 4,551 power stations worldwide, combining emissions, ownership, capacity, fuel type, and climate-zone data into a single schema. The project's central finding is that only about 15% of plant-level emissions data comes from direct measurements, while the remaining 85% relies on modelled estimates, making provenance and transparency critical for anyone working with emissions datasets.