Sustainability-Oriented Indirect Carbon Emission Accounting for Electricity Considering Bidirectional System Integration in the Power Market Environment

Liye Xie, Guodong Li, Xiaoliang Dong, Yuanji Cai, Zhuochen Guo () and Ningkang Pan
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Liye Xie: Beijing Power Exchange Center Co., Ltd., Beijing 100031, China
Guodong Li: Beijing Power Exchange Center Co., Ltd., Beijing 100031, China
Xiaoliang Dong: Beijing Power Exchange Center Co., Ltd., Beijing 100031, China
Yuanji Cai: Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Chengdu 610213, China
Zhuochen Guo: Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Chengdu 610213, China
Ningkang Pan: Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Chengdu 610213, China

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 21, 1-29

Abstract: With the deepening of power market reform and the large-scale integration of bidirectional systems such as energy storage and electric vehicles, achieving sustainable carbon management has become increasingly urgent. Traditional carbon emission accounting methods face challenges, including insufficient dynamics and unclear responsibility boundaries. To address these issues, this paper proposes a sustainability-oriented accounting method for indirect carbon emissions from electricity in the context of bidirectional system integration in the power market environment. First, the dynamic carbon emission characteristics of bidirectional systems such as energy storage and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems are analyzed, and a carbon emission accounting model is constructed to address the fairness issue of emission responsibility allocation during charging and discharging. Second, on the basis of the theory of carbon emission flows and incorporating electricity trading contract data, an accounting method for indirect carbon emissions from electricity in green electricity trading, coal-fired electricity trading, and hybrid scenarios under bidirectional system integration is developed. Finally, the case study demonstrates that the proposed method accurately captures the temporal variation of carbon emission factors, ensures conservation of total emissions, and fairly redistributes carbon responsibility among users under different market scenarios, while revealing how bidirectional systems and green electricity trading reshape nodal carbon intensities and spatial emission distributions without causing double counting.

Keywords: sustainable carbon management; bidirectional system; indirect carbon emissions; carbon emission flow; green electricity trading (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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