DATASMART 2019 Update
Written by Long Trail Sustainability, Senior Consultant, Shelly Severinghaus
The 2019 DATASMART update, released on June 28, 2019, includes 58 new processes and 105 updated processes[1]. This includes new Canadian electricity mixes by province and territory, as well as the high, medium, and low voltage for each region. The U.S. electricity mixes by eGRID and by state were also updated to incorporate more recently published data. Two new waste scenarios for general waste and packaging waste were created based on the most recent publications from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The LTS Method was updated with three damage categories based on ReCiPe 2016, and is now called the LTS 2019 method, found in the Global Category. The 2019 update also includes more detailed documentation in the process comments. Finally, the update includes updated water flows in hydropower and nuclear energy production processes.
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DATASMART LCI Package is a dataset for North American SimaPro customers provided by Long Trail Sustainability (LTS). This dataset was originally developed to create a North American focused dataset, based on a combination of US LCI v.1.60 and Ecoinvent v.2.2 data, modified specifically to be representative of U.S. operations. In an effort to continually provide more data, DATASMART has expanded to a larger dataset, covering more regions and industries, containing data developed by LTS and data submitted to LTS by companies and researchers. More information is available in our DATASMART LCI Package Manual.
[1] Processes updated directly. Does not include processes with updated documentation, processes moved to a new category or processes that have updated processes as an input (e.g. if the electricity production mix was updated, the high/medium/low voltage electricity processes are not counted as updated).
