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Cumulative Energy Demand - CED

Current version: 2021 version 2.1

Updated today

Cumulative Energy Demand is an impact method that assesses primary energy usage adapted by FEDEFL from Frischknecht et al. (2003).

Current version in Earthster is 1.2024-12.0.

Category name

Unit

Non-renewable, biomass

MJ

Non-renewable, fossil

MJ

Non-renewable, nuclear

MJ

Renewable, biomass

MJ

Renewable, water

MJ

Renewable, wind, solar, geothermal

MJ

Total

MJ

Total, non-renewable

MJ

Total, renewable

MJ

Log of changes

2025-11-09

  • Current version changed from 1.2021-10.0 to 1.2024-12.0.

  • Update to the impact category Non-renewable, biomass, which has a new exchange to track non-renewable biomass. For more information, read here.

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