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USLCI Quarterly Release: Summer 2025 Update

The USLCI Summer Quarter 2025 release is ready. The new release is available through NREL’s USLCI repository on the Federal LCA Commons (FLCAC). The update in openLCA zolca and JSON-LD formats can also be downloaded from the USLCI GitHub Support Content Downloads page. An overview of other recent FLCAC additions (US Electricity Baseline update and NIST’s new repository) can be found below the USLCI updates.

Overview of USLCI 2025 Summer Quarter Changes:

  • Updated U.S. Electricity Baseline library which contains 2022 data
  • Added drinking water data developed by EPA and ERG
    • 23 drinking water acquisition, treatment and distribution processes
    • 46 drinking water treatment infrastructure processes
  • Added US average wastewater treatment process
  • Updated/added recycled plastics data developed by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and ERG
    • Updated recycled HDPE and PET resin processes
    • Added PP recycled resin process
    • Collection and material recovery facility processes will be updated/added next quarter
  • Added unit and system processes for the average consumption mix of Styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) block copolymer developed by the Asphalt Institute and WAP
  • Miscellaneous additional new processes
    • Galvanized steel nails and staples
    • Sodium bicarbonate
    • Formic acid
    • Sodium formate
  • Added elementary energy resource flows to crude oil and natural gas extraction processes
  • Updated location, flow property, and unit group objects to align with the openLCA reference data
  • To fill in gaps in the drinking water and other inventories, several bridge processes to connect USLCI to USEEIO v2.0 were developed. To generate complete product systems that leverage these bridge processes, import USEEIOv2 into the same database as USLCI. Read more about bridge process implementation here.

More details are available in the USLCI Press Release brief. The Change Log is here and USLCI Content Support is available at the USLCI Content Wiki page, which includes access to archived versions of the USLCI.   

Please see the "How to Publish in the USLCI" section in the USLCI Data Submission Handbook and/or contact the USLCI Data Curator (uslci@erg.com) if you have any USLCI publishing goals for the next release date, September, 2025.

Please contact lci@nrel.gov and/or uslci@erg.com with any questions or concerns you may have about submitting data to the USLCI Database.

To be added to the USLCI updates please email us at USLCI@erg.com. Thank you for your continued support!