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Integrated life cycle assessment of electricity supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies [1]

Life-cycle assessments commonly used to analyze the environmental costs and benefits of climate-mitigation options are usually static in nature and address individual power plants. Our paper presents, to our knowledge, the first life-cycle assessment of the large-scale implementation of climate-mitigation technologies, addressing the feedback of the electricity system onto itself and using scenario-consistent assumptions of technical improvements in key energy and material production technologies.

Publication Date: 
06/10/2014
Edgar G. Hertwich [2], Thomas Gibon [3], Evert A. Bouman & et al [4]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [5]
1-39
Tags:
Electricity [6], Low Carbon Economy [7], Fossil Fuels [8], Renewable Energy [9], Solar Energy [10], Wind Energy [11], Carbon Capture and Storage [12], Solar Thermal Power [13], Hydroelectricity [14], Air Pollution [15], Water Pollution [16], Eutrophication [17], Infrastructure Development [18]

Technology Partners: MimirTech

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/edgar-g-hertwich
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/thomas-gibon
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/evert-bouman-et-al
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/proceedings-national-academy-sciences
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electricity
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/low-carbon-economy
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fossil-fuels
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/renewable-energy
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solar-energy
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wind-energy
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-capture-and-storage
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solar-thermal-power
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydroelectricity
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pollution
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/eutrophication
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/infrastructure-development