Net Energy Payback and CO2 Emissions from Three Midwestern Wind Farms: An Update

White, S.

doi:10.1007/s11053-007-9024-y

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“…Only accounting for the operational emissions misrepresents the environmental impact of a wind turbine's lifecycle [20]. Manufacturing components, transporting, installing, maintaining, and decommissioning the turbines all have energy costs and corresponding carbon footprints [21].…”

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“…Extraction and processing of turbine materials, consistently account for the largest contribution of energy and GHG emissions in turbine LCAs [5,20,21]. Recycling these materials greatly impacts the total GHG emissions from the turbines because these materials have some of the highest embodied carbon levels [20,23].…”

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“…Recycling these materials greatly impacts the total GHG emissions from the turbines because these materials have some of the highest embodied carbon levels [20,23]. If the decommissioning process includes recycling, the total emissions from a turbine's lifespan undergoing these processes have the potential to be lowered significantly [28].…”

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“…The capacity factor has the ability to influence the corresponding carbon emissions from wind turbines [20]. The lower the capacity factor, the lower the energy return from the turbine.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Life Cycle Analysis of the Embodied Carbon Emissions from 14 Wind Turbines with Rated Powers between 50 Kw and 3.4 Mw

Smoucha

Fitzpatrick

Buckingham³

et al. 2016

J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl

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Section: Wind Turbine Life Cycle Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Page 3 Of 10mentioning

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“…The capacity factor has the ability to influence the corresponding carbon emissions from wind turbines [20]. The lower the capacity factor, the lower the energy return from the turbine.…”

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Life Cycle Analysis of the Embodied Carbon Emissions from 14 Wind Turbines with Rated Powers between 50 Kw and 3.4 Mw

Smoucha

Fitzpatrick

Buckingham³

et al. 2016

J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl

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“…There is no significant difference in the energy yield between the use of small and large scale wind turbines [26]. There are several other studies [19,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33] that quantified the GHGs by performing the LCA of real-world wind electricity generation systems.…”

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Characterization of the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from wind electricity generation systems

Kadiyala

Kommalapati

Huque

2016

Int J Energy Environ Eng

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This study characterized and evaluated the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from different wind electricity generation systems by (a) performing a comprehensive review of the wind electricity generation system life cycle assessment (LCA) studies and (b) statistically evaluating the life cycle GHG emissions (expressed in grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour, gCO 2 e/kWh). A categorization index (with unique category codes, formatted as 'axis of rotation-installed location-power generation capacity') was adopted for use in this study to characterize the reviewed wind electricity generation systems. The unique category codes were labeled by integrating the names from the three wind power sub-classifications, i.e., the axis of rotation of the wind turbine 38.67, 11.75, 15.98, 12.9, and 46.4 gCO 2 e/kWh, respectively. The HAWT-ON-I wind electricity generation systems produced the minimum life cycle GHGs than other wind electricity generation systems.

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Life Cycle Assessment of Wind Power Generation System

Yang

Chen

2015

Handbook of Clean Energy Systems

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Wind power is experiencing an unprecedented development in China. It is regarded a clean energy alternative as no emissions are generated in electricity production process. However, the material‐intensive production of wind turbines is associated with environmental releases. Therefore, assessing the environmental impacts of wind power generation systems involves not only power production process but also all related processes. Life cycle assessment ( LCA ) considering all environmental emissions in the whole lifetime of the wind power generation system is proven a powerful tool to estimate the real environmental costs of wind power and can provide information for companies, local resident, and government officials about the environmental implications of wind power generation technology. A case of typical wind power generation system was shown to demonstrate the procedures of LCA . However, LCA in wind power generation systems in the current stage still has some issues to be solved, represented as time‐varying factors, vague definition of system boundary and standardization, and so on. In addition to improving life cycle analysis to make the assessment more precise and feasible, the scope of wind power generation should be extended to life cycle sustainability evaluation so as to give an overview of the wind power generation system and shed lights on development pathway design.

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Net Energy Payback and CO2 Emissions from Three Midwestern Wind Farms: An Update

Cited by 29 publications

References 4 publications

Life Cycle Analysis of the Embodied Carbon Emissions from 14 Wind Turbines with Rated Powers between 50 Kw and 3.4 Mw

Life Cycle Analysis of the Embodied Carbon Emissions from 14 Wind Turbines with Rated Powers between 50 Kw and 3.4 Mw

Characterization of the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from wind electricity generation systems

Life Cycle Assessment of Wind Power Generation System

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