Journal article
Environmental impacts of electricity self-consumption from organic photovoltaic battery systems at industrial facilities in Denmark
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark1
Organic Energy Materials, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark2
Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
Transport DTU, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark4
Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark5
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) show promise of greatly improving the environmental and economic performance of PV compared to conventional silicon. Life cycle assessment studies have assessed the environmental impacts of OPV, but not under a self-consumption scheme for industrial facilities. We investigate the life cycle environmental impacts of electricity self-consumption from an OPV system coupled with a sodium/nickel chloride battery at an iron/metal industry in Denmark.
Results show that an OPV system without storage could decrease the carbon footprint of the industry; installation of the battery increases climate change and human toxicity impacts. We discuss sensitive modelling parameters and provide recommendations.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 45-48 |
| ISSN: | 00078506 and 17260604 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cirp.2017.04.100 |
| ORCIDs: | Chatzisideris, Marios Dimos , Laurent, Alexis , Hauschild, Michael Zwicky and Krebs, Frederik C |
SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production SDG 13 - Climate Action SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
