Land use and electricity generation: A life-cycle analysis

By Vasilis Fthenakis, Hyung Chul Kim. 2009

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Pollution, Sociology and Political Science

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Serious mismatches continue between science and policy in forest bioenergy (2019, background): “…in photovoltaics has underlined the inherently low efficiency of exploiting photosynthesis for energy, since the amount of electricity that can be produced from a hectare of land using photovoltaics is at least 50–100 times that from biomass (Fthenakis & Kim, 2009; Geyer, Stoms, & Kallaos, 2013).”
A system of systems approach to energy sustainability assessment: Are all renewables really green? (2015, background): “A number of studies have been focusing on the land use intensity of energy sources, including McDonalds et al. (2009), Fthenakis and Kim (2009), and Lovins (2011).”
Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 1. Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Electricity Futures (2012, background): “Estimates of the impact of natural gas and uranium extraction and processing are about 100 m(2)/GWh and 40 m(2)/GWh, respectively (Fthenakis and Kim 2009).”
A review of land use, visibility and public perception of renewable energy in the context of landscape impact (2020, background): “impacts from facilities and processes of manufacturing and decommissioning RE machinery and infrastructure components is a complex task that requires specialized research, and unfortunately relevant studies are scarce [73].”
Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies (2014, background): “If an entire land-based wind park is considered, land use would be on the order of 50–200 square meter-year/MWh (m(2)a/MWh) (8, 20), which is higher than other technologies.”
Assessing vulnerabilities and limits in the transition to renewable energies: Land requirements under 100% solar energy scenarios (2017, background): “A few estimates of solar land-use requirements have been published to date by various authors for advanced capitalist economies such as the USA and European states [21,61,66,94,100], and by Jacobson and Delucchi [48] at a global level, while other studies have focused on comparisons with other energ”
Assessing current and future techno-economic potential of concentrated solar power and photovoltaic electricity generation (2015, background): “In contrast, land-use issues have been taken into account in studies looking at the regional scale [13] or in the global PV study of [14].”