Life Cycle Assessment in Renewable and Sustainable Energy
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 August 2024 | Viewed by 1426
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability assessment; LCA; renewable energy; wood; biomaterials
Interests: life cycle assessment; life cycle sustainability assessment; energy systems; renewable energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many efforts are being made to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In order to decarbonise the energy sector and replace fossil fuels, many new renewable technologies have been and are being developed. To ensure their sustainability, methods and tools to measure and compare the environmental impacts and benefits of the developed technologies are needed. This is particularly relevant for technologies conceived to mitigate climate change, but that obviously impact also other areas of concern and spheres of sustainability. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well-established tool used to assess the sustainability performances of different renewable energy sources useful to help companies and policy makers to select the most sustainable energy source for each specific goal and understand where they can be improved. The main aim of this Special Issue us to give an overview of different renewable energy systems to understand the environmental impact of producing energy through the analysis over their life cycle of different generation sources. All contributions using LCA to assess past, present and future sustainability performances of renewable energies are welcome.
This Special Issue aims to invite colleagues to submit their recent research on the sustainability assessment of renewable energy technologies with life cycle assessment.
Original articles, reviews and case studies focusing on following topics are welcome:
- LCA of renewable energy production technologies (solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, etc.)
- LCA of renewable energy storage technologies (batteries, Power-to-X, etc.)
- Methodological advances in the context of renewable energy (e.g prospective LA, dynamic LCA, regionalized LCA, etc.)
- Trade-off between climate change and other environmental impacts of renewable energies
- Use of LCA together with other methodologies/tools (TEA, optimization, MFA, PSE, LCC, S-LCA, etc.)
- Life Cycle Optimization of renewable energies production and use
- LCA for eco-design of renewable energies
Dr. Giuseppe Cardellini
Dr. Daniele Costa
Dr. Maarten Messagie
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- sustainability
- Life Cycle Assessment
- environmental analysis tools
