کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8102319 1522125 2016 35 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Carbon footprint scenarios for renewable electricity in Australia
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
سناریوهای کربن برای برق تجدید پذیر در استرالیا
کلمات کلیدی
انرژی تجدید پذیر، رد پای کربن، تجزیه و تحلیل سناریو، تجزیه و تحلیل خروجی ورودی، ارزیابی چرخه عمر ترکیبی استرالیا،
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی های تجدید پذیر، توسعه پایدار و محیط زیست
چکیده انگلیسی
Despite considerable mitigation efforts, global emissions from the electricity sector continued to grow in recent years. In Australia, the electricity sector is the largest CO2-emitting industry, contributing 35% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions. The Australian government targets an 80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 relative to 2010. With a large variety and quantity of renewable energy resources, it is technically feasible and seems indispensable that Australia's electricity sector be largely decarbonised by 2050 in order to achieve this target. In this paper, scenario-based hybrid Life-Cycle Assessment is applied to calculate the economy-wide carbon footprints of seven electricity generation technologies in scenarios with differing renewable electricity penetration. This work is the first to apply a full life-cycle approach to scenario analysis of electricity generation in Australia. The findings are at the higher end of previously reported carbon footprint intensity ranges and above median values. However, even when taking into account indirect emissions along the technologies' life-cycles, the results indicate that the employment of different renewable energy technologies can potentially save a considerable fraction of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. This makes renewables an essential option for climate change mitigation.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production - Volume 124, 15 June 2016, Pages 236-245
نویسندگان
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