Life cycle assessment (LCA) of electricity generation technologies: Overview, comparability and limitations

R Turconi, A Boldrin, T Astrup - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Life cycle emission factors for electricity generation from selected technologies. Factors at
the top of the table refer to electricity output [kg/MWh out ], while values at the bottom of the …

Land use and electricity generation: A life-cycle analysis

V Fthenakis, HC Kim - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
… the total land-area transformation across electricity-generation options. We consider the
entire life cycle stages, ie, extracting resources, generating the electricity, disposing of the waste, …

Life cycle inventory for electricity generation in China

X Di, Z Nie, B Yuan, T Zuo - The International Journal of Life Cycle …, 2007 - Springer
… The objective of this study was to produce detailed a life cycle inventory (LCI) for the
provision of 1 kWh of electricity to consumers in China in 2002 in order to identify areas of …

Life-cycle uses of water in US electricity generation

V Fthenakis, HC Kim - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
… supply chain for electricity generation. Then, we compare the life-cycle water withdrawal
factors across electricity-generation options, followed by a discussion on policy implications. …

Life cycle assessment of electricity generation: a review of the characteristics of existing literature

MV Barros, R Salvador, CM Piekarski… - … Journal of Life Cycle …, 2020 - Springer
… The main studies in this area point that in the future, the main sources for electricity generation
will be renewable ones, since life cycle assessment of electricity generation systems has …

Life cycle assessment of photovoltaic electricity generation

A Stoppato - Energy, 2008 - Elsevier
… The paper presents the results of a life cycle assessment (LCA) of the electric generation by
means of photovoltaic panels. It considers mass and energy flows over the whole production …

Life-cycle assessment of electricity generation options: The status of research in year 2001

L Gagnon, C Belanger, Y Uchiyama - Energy policy, 2002 - Elsevier
… environmental impacts of electricity generation systems, based on life-cycle assessments (…
processing and transportation of fuels, building of power plants and generation of electricity. …

Life cycle assessment of electricity generation in Mexico

E Santoyo-Castelazo, H Gujba, A Azapagic - Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
… This paper presents for the first time a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of electricity
generation in Mexico. The electricity mix in Mexico is dominated by fossil fuels, which contribute …

Life-cycle impact assessment of renewable electricity generation systems in the United States

MAP Mahmud, N Huda, SH Farjana, C Lang - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
… US Table 3 shows the life cycle inventory data source for each of the studied plants in this
research [[83], [84], [85]]. Basically, all the renewable power generation units follow almost the …

Life cycle water use for electricity generation: a review and harmonization of literature estimates

J Meldrum, S Nettles-Anderson, G Heath… - Environmental …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
… requirements, although the life cycle of electricity generation may be associated with water
… throughout the life cycle of each of seven categories of electricity generation technologies: …