Scope, source, release context, and stable identifying information.
Description
Source-traceable UVEK 2025 inventory. Reference flow: 1 kilogram.
Pre-products, energy use, infrastructure, some air emissions and transports. No full information on all air and water emissions available.
Basic inventory based on cumulative data.
Fluoropolymer chemistry.
Time of publications.
Original technosphere quantities and waste-service signs restored. Biosphere uses the CLIC ecoinvent 3.10 profile; regional water metadata is retained but its regional characterization is not reproduced. No claim of exact reproduction of report impact results.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) The report's Licence Notice and Use Restrictions also states exclusions for separately credited material and restrictions on AI training and text/data mining. See the cited source notice; this release does not broaden those terms.
CLIC metadata curation (2026-09-17): TRL 9 and mature-commercial status are curator estimates of the established underlying industrial route(s), not publisher-assigned ratings or evidence that a particular modelled plant exists. Representativeness estimates (1 best, 5 weakest): technology 3, geography 2, temporal 5. Workbook chemical/material inventory and its retained source comments: established industrial route, but predominantly 1976-2009 data. Stoichiometry, allocation, estimated emissions or proxy energy limit representativeness; metallization pastes use a solder-process proxy. A 2026 publication does not update these measurements. No defensible dataset-specific plant capacity, utilization, annual output or lifetime is stated for this reference flow. Industry totals and sample coverage are not plant measurements. Unreported characterization fields remain blank. Source: IEA PVPS T12-33:2026, DOI 10.69766/WJTE1771; X-fluor, column AB. Metadata: X-Process!DP; workbook period 2005-2006.
Source
Technical or institutional report
Götz et al. (2026), Life Cycle Inventories of Photovoltaic Systems, IEA PVPS Task 12, Report T12-33:2026. https://doi.org/10.69766/WJTE1771; inventory locator: X-fluor, column AB.
Release notes
pv-2026-uvek-heroku-drafts-20260915. pv-2026-uvek-publication-20260915. Curator-led source-backed PV 2026 release, not a community peer-review checklist. 317 UVEK 2025 inventories and 7,296 exchanges validated; nine documented water-balance/fuel-CO2 warnings retained. Approved proxies and biosphere conversion limitations remain documented. Unknown quality scores are not invented. Data-adaptation changes: native UVEK suppliers restored; approved geographic and transport proxies retained; CLIC ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere conventions applied. No claim of exact reproduction of the report's impact assessment results.
Dataset detailsExpandCollapse
Dataset details
Classification
Chemicals (chemicals)
Background database
UVEK / 2025
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.10
Bookmarks
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Raw file downloads
0
Generated export downloads
3
These are the source profiles for this version. Foreground modelling assumptions and allocation belong in the dataset description.
Scale, utilization, production, and lifetime data. Missing values remain visible to guide future metadata improvements.
Commercial maturity stage
Mature commercial
Design capacity
Not provided
Design capacity unit
Not provided
Capacity factor
Not provided
Annual production volume
Not provided
Annual production volume unit
Not provided
Annual production volume year
Not provided
Plant lifetime
Not provided
Inventory workspace
Inventory & impacts
Inspect every exchange and its contribution to the selected EF v3.1 indicator.
Precalculated screening profile
Environmental impacts
Results per kilogram, using UVEK 2025 and the ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere. Exchange rows are shaded from green to red by relative contribution to the selected indicator.
Acidification0.0450744
mol H+-Eq / kilogram
Climate change16.9453
kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Freshwater ecotoxicity32.0536
CTUe / kilogram
Freshwater eutrophication0.00273133
kg P-Eq / kilogram
Marine eutrophication0.00534651
kg N-Eq / kilogram
Photochemical ozone formation0.0243736
kg NMVOC-Eq / kilogram
Resource use, fossils189.417
MJ, net calorific value / kilogram
Resource use, minerals and metals3.4187e-05
kg Sb-Eq / kilogram
Water use228.299
m3 world Eq deprived / kilogram
Show all 16 indicator totals
Acidification0.0450744
mol H+-Eq / kilogram
Climate change16.9453
kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Freshwater ecotoxicity32.0536
CTUe / kilogram
Freshwater eutrophication0.00273133
kg P-Eq / kilogram
Marine eutrophication0.00534651
kg N-Eq / kilogram
Terrestrial eutrophication0.0524734
mol N-Eq / kilogram
Human toxicity, cancer3.8534e-09
CTUh / kilogram
Human toxicity, non-cancer5.6093e-08
CTUh / kilogram
Ionising radiation3.99102
kBq U235-Eq / kilogram
Land use26.9396
dimensionless / kilogram
Ozone depletion2.6876e-07
kg CFC-11-Eq / kilogram
Particulate matter3.0826e-07
disease incidence / kilogram
Photochemical ozone formation0.0243736
kg NMVOC-Eq / kilogram
Resource use, fossils189.417
MJ, net calorific value / kilogram
Resource use, minerals and metals3.4187e-05
kg Sb-Eq / kilogram
Water use228.299
m3 world Eq deprived / kilogram
Calculation details
Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact
4e70d56a85b1 · calculated
2026-09-30 14:24 UTC. These screening results do not replace a reviewed comparative LCA.
Dataset contents
Reference flows, emissions, technosphere inputs, and natural resources in this published snapshot.
Outputs
Reference flow
1 row
Reference production exchanges extracted from the uploaded inventory.
IEA PVPS T12-33:2026, X-fluor!AB33. (5,3,1,1,1,5); Rough estimation based on cumulative data, Krieger et al. 2006
Native preparation: exact_source_identity; source-to-draft amount factor 1.
Original calculation (numeric amount used): =0.1*SUM(AB20:AB32)
Negative
No
Uncertainty type
2
8.3271e-05mol H+-Eq / kilogram
0.2% of total
0.0198879kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
0.1% of total
0.0565844CTUe / kilogram
0.2% of total
1.8930e-06kg P-Eq / kilogram
0.1% of total
3.4246e-05kg N-Eq / kilogram
0.6% of total
0.000355871mol N-Eq / kilogram
0.7% of total
6.9850e-12CTUh / kilogram
0.2% of total
1.5442e-10CTUh / kilogram
0.3% of total
0.00229711kBq U235-Eq / kilogram
0.1% of total
0.117532dimensionless / kilogram
0.4% of total
7.4031e-10kg CFC-11-Eq / kilogram
0.3% of total
6.1458e-10disease incidence / kilogram
0.2% of total
0.000127033kg NMVOC-Eq / kilogram
0.5% of total
0.288283MJ, net calorific value / kilogram
0.2% of total
4.6606e-08kg Sb-Eq / kilogram
0.1% of total
0.0230613m3 world Eq deprived / kilogram
0.0% of total
BAFU:2025
Parameters
Read-only definitions preserved with this inventory version. Values are supplied by the source; CLIC does not evaluate formulas or recalculate exchange amounts and impact scores from them.
No parameter definitions were supplied with this inventory snapshot.
Supply-chain graph
Direct technosphere and natural-resource inputs appear on the left; emissions appear on the right.
Current datasetTechnosphere inputsEnvironmental resource inputsEmissions
2 CLIC nodes
and 5 background boundary nodes shown.
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Evidence and scrutiny
Quality & review
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Quality and maturity detailsExpandCollapse
Quality and maturity
TRL scaleHigher is more mature.9: routine commercial deployment8: commercial, but still niche or scaling7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration6: engineering-scale demonstration5: pilot or large prototype4: bench or lab validated3: research-stage conceptTechnology readiness level
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earlymature
1 to 5 scaleLower is better.1: strong market- or operating-data basis2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective5: weak representation of the real technology stateTechnological representativeness
12345
strongweak
1 to 5 scaleLower is better.1: geography matches the claimed scope well2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact3: generic regional or global proxy4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch5: geography is effectively unsupportedGeographical representativeness
12345
strongweak
1 to 5 scaleLower is better.1: current for that technology class2: slightly dated, but still good3: dated enough to need caution4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice5: clearly not representative of the current stateTemporal representativeness
12345
strongweak
Missing exchange uncertainty generation:
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Representativeness scores use a 1–5 scale when provided. Lower scores indicate a closer fit to the modeled technology, geography, or time period.
Public review record
Curator-led bulk import. Public evidence is shown without participant
accounts, assignments, recommendations, or private editor notes.
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Publication route
Curator-led bulk import
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