Comprehensive comparison of multiple renewable power generation methods: A combination analysis of life cycle assessment and ecological footprint

Gao, Chengkang; Zhu, Sulong; An, Nan; Na, Hongming; You, Huan; Gao, Chengbo

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2021.111255

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“…As an explained variable, environmental degradation is measured by carbon emission and ecological footprint following the existing literature (Kha H et al, 2021;Gao et al, 2021;Shahbaz et al, 2021;Ansari, 2022). On the other hand, explanatory variables include financial development, which is proxied by the construction of FD through the execution of PAC.…”

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Effects of financial development, FDI and good governance on environmental degradation in the Arab nation: Dose technological innovation matters?

Andriamahery

Qamruzzaman

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The motivation of the study is to gauge the impact of financial development, FDI, Technological innovation, and good governance on environmental degradation in the Arab Nation for the period 1991–2019. Several techniques have implemented, including error correction-based cointegration, cross-sectional ARDL, Non-linear ARDL and Heterogeneous causality test for directional causality. The results of Slope of homogeneity, CSD and unit root test following CIPS and CADF, revealed that research variables are exposed with heterogeneity properties, cross-sectionally dependent, and all the variables become stationary after the first difference. The long-run cointegration between explained and explanatory variables established through error correction based cointegrating test. Referring to results derived from CS-ARDL, study exposed financial development has a detrimental effect on environmental sustainability, suggesting the intensification of CO2 emission and ecological instability. On the other hand, the role of FDI, GG, and TI exposed beneficiary in mitigating the environmental adversity. The asymmetric assessment revealed asymmetric association between explained and core explanatory variables which is valid in the long-run and short-run horizon. Finally, the casual association, study unveiled bidirectional causality between FDI, TI and ED [FDI←→ED; TI←→ED]. On the policy note, the study advocated that environmental improvement through financial channels should be efficiently monitored in the case of credit extension and incorporation with existing environmental policies.

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Effects of financial development, FDI and good governance on environmental degradation in the Arab nation: Dose technological innovation matters?

Andriamahery

Qamruzzaman

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…With the use of dynamic ordinary least squares and completely modified ordinary least squares, the sensitivity of long-run elasticity has been examined. Similarly, C. Gao et al (2021) also explored the association between RE generation methods and ED. The findings proposed that a) wind power had the lowest energy consumption, less emission of carbon, and lowest possible environmental effect, b) according to an examination of ecological footprints at the provincial level, whilst the other provinces were in ecological surplus, with the majority of them having ecological areas above 50%, c) Of the three RE sources, only wind power reduced energy consumption as compared to thermal power generation, which used 1170.911 kJ/kWh.…”

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The Role of Sustainable Energy, Technology Adoption, and Green Finance on the Environmental Sustainability in China

Yousaf

Fazal

2022

iRASD J. Ener. Envio.

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Environmental sustainability (ES) has gained global attention due to uncertain environmental and economic conditions, and this phenomenon needs researchers’ intention. Therefore, the current article examines the impact of sustainable energy, such as renewable energy (RE) output and RE consumption, technology adoption, green finance (GF), and economic growth (EG) on environmental sustainability in China. The article has gathered the data from World Development Indicators (WDI) and the central bank from 1990 to 2020. The study employed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) to check the connection among the constructs. The findings exposed that the RE output and RE consumption, technology adoption, GF, and EG have positive ES in China. These findings guide the regulators in developing regulations related to improving ES using sustainable energy, GF, and technology adoption.

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“…Due to the industry-linked effect, many pollution links in the industry chain are laid out in China. Therefore, with the development of renewable energy generation technologies, there is a need to assess the environmental load of renewable energy generation [1]. Due to the absence of industry-wide greening policies and the highly unbalanced structure of the PV industry chain, it is of great practical significance to select the PV industry as the research target and measure the carbon emissions of polycrystalline silicon PV systems using the life cycle assessment method.…”

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Environmental Effects of Technological Improvements in Polysilicon Photovoltaic Systems in China—A Life Cycle Assessment

et al. 2022

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Due to increasing pollution and the overexploitation of traditional energy, there is both an environmental and a resource threat to sustainable development. China’s government prioritizes the optimization of resource structures with photovoltaic industrial support policies to address the potential hazards of traditionally highly polluting energy resources. However, applying green energy resources is not a panacea for solving existing industrial pollution as environmental problems cannot be solved with the level of optimized energy types. Instead, it is necessary to further explore the potential carbon emissions from clean energy resources. Therefore, we construct a polysilicon PV system’s whole life cycle carbon emission model by applying the LCA method and further building the emission coefficient model. More specifically, we divided the system’s carbon emissions into six components and calculated each part separately. In addition, we further applied the case analysis method. We analyzed the carbon emissions of the 280 MW solar cell production project of a leading global PV module company in China. The research results indicated that polysilicon companies should proactively develop advanced production technologies to upgrade energy-saving and environmental safety measures to reduce resource and energy consumption from raw materials in the final disposal process.

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Comprehensive comparison of multiple renewable power generation methods: A combination analysis of life cycle assessment and ecological footprint

Cited by 49 publications

References 44 publications

Effects of financial development, FDI and good governance on environmental degradation in the Arab nation: Dose technological innovation matters?

Effects of financial development, FDI and good governance on environmental degradation in the Arab nation: Dose technological innovation matters?

The Role of Sustainable Energy, Technology Adoption, and Green Finance on the Environmental Sustainability in China

Environmental Effects of Technological Improvements in Polysilicon Photovoltaic Systems in China—A Life Cycle Assessment

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