Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Photovoltaic Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 October 2022)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: life cycle analysis; life cycle assessment; environmental impact assessment; climate change; sustainability; renewable energies
Special Issue Information
A photovoltaic system, also known as a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity. A PV system can range from small systems with capacities from a few kilowatts to a large utility-scale with hundreds of megawatts. Use of the photovoltaic system has been growing exponentially worldwide for the past three decades due to the demands for renewable energy technology. Photovoltaic (PV) systems operate silently without any moving parts or environmental emissions and are deemed to be clean and sustainable sources of energy. Although the operation of PV systems displays minimal pollution, the likely environmental impacts that may occur during the resource extraction, manufacturing, or disposal stage cannot be ignored. Thus, a comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) should be conducted on PV systems to evaluate their impacts. LCA (also known as life cycle analysis) is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with the life cycle stage of a product, process, or service from the extraction of raw material, processing, manufacture, transport, use, and final disposal or recycling of the materials. LCA has been applied in the renewable energy sector since the 1990s to evaluate the sustainability of various renewable energy sources, especially in terms of carbon footprint, to help policymakers to determine the best approaches to achieve environmental protection.
This Special Issue on “Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Photovoltaic Systems” aims to unite the efforts of researchers from all over the world to expand and promote the environmental qualification of various photovoltaic systems through life cycle assessment.
Dr. Onn Chiu Chuen
Dr. Ahmad Faiz Abd Rashid
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- • Life Cycle Assessment
- • Photovoltaic System
- • Environmental Impact
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