Sustainability Criteria for Energy Resources and Technologies

Hammond, Geoffrey P.; Jones, Craig I.

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“…The policy of sustainable energy in three dimensions: ecological, economic and socio-cultural is also described by H. Rogall (Rogall, 2009) and G. P. Hammond i C.I. Jones (Hammond and Jones, 2011). According to the quoted authors, in the framework of the environmental pillar the effects of the application of a given technology should be subject to environmental impact assessment.…”

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Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Safety Management as Illustrated with an Example of the Polish Energy Sector

Skrodzka

Kiriliuk

2019

System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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Power engineering is one of the key areas of sustainable development. Many countries create new concepts of environmental safety management and modify their energy systems to be in line with the goals of sustainable development in the EU. Sustainable development indicators can be a tool for monitoring the set goals of environmental safety management. The aim of the article is to assess the environmental safety management of the energy sector in Poland in relation to EU as well as presenting the concept of sustainable energy development and indicators used to assess the development of energy in the following dimensions: social, economic and ecological. The indicators used to assess the sustainable development of energy in the following dimensions were compared: sustainable consumption and production, marking the production and consumption of energy; organizations and sites with eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS); registration climate change, marking GHG emissions and the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption; sustainable transport, marking the energy consumption of transport relative to GDP. The article will test the hypothesis that the structure of obtaining energy in Poland and the tempo of change in this respect differ from the EU average.

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Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Safety Management as Illustrated with an Example of the Polish Energy Sector

Skrodzka

Kiriliuk

2019

System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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“…In contrast, more advanced or second generation biofuels (SGB) are generally produced from agricultural or crop 'wastes' [such as wheat straw [46]] and from non-food energy crops, which significantly reduces these negative impacts [42,73]. Potential feedstocks and conversion routes [44] therefore need to be assessed against the full range of sustainability considerations and over the full life-cycle of the biofuel supply chain [25,43,81]: from 'field-to-forecourt' or 'seed-to-wheel'. Only in this way will the true consequences of a given biofuelenvironmental, economic and social -be determined [43].…”

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“…Potential feedstocks and conversion routes [44] therefore need to be assessed against the full range of sustainability considerations and over the full life-cycle of the biofuel supply chain [25,43,81]: from 'field-to-forecourt' or 'seed-to-wheel'. Only in this way will the true consequences of a given biofuelenvironmental, economic and social -be determined [43].…”

Section: Bioenergy Resources For Use In the Uk Energy And Transport Smentioning

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Bioenergy utilization for a low carbon future in the UK: the evaluation of some alternative scenarios and projections

Allen

Hammond

2019

BMC Energy

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Energy security and climate change mitigation are two of the most significant challenges facing governments in countries across the world. The United Kingdom (UK) government therefore passed the 2008 Climate Change Act that legally commits Britain to reducing 'greenhouse gas' (GHG) emissions by 80% over 1990 levels by the year 2050. Bioenergy (as a potentially low carbon and renewable energy source) is recognised as having the potential to contribute to mitigating GHG emissions and, through utilising domestic biomass resources, can help Britain reduce its reliance on fuel imports and thereby enhance energy security. In order to help guide the UK towards achieving its ambitious targets, a number of forecasting studies have been carried out, each proposing different pathways to securing its 2050 GHG emissions reduction target. The extent to which bioenergy can contribute to future energy supply is appraised, given the biomass resources available to Britain. Analysis of three notable low or zero carbon energy scenario sets developed by, respectively, the British Government's Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), and the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) enabled a comparative evaluation to be made of each projection and their realism. They reflect alternative modelling approaches that seek to meet the statutory 2050 carbon reduction target (BEIS and UKERC), to that (by CAT) of fully decarbonising Britain by 2030. The spotlight is on the use of dedicated energy crops and their implications, with a particular emphasis on the critical factors and issues of land availability, conversion technologies [including bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS)], and foreign imports. Likewise, the deployment of bioenergy resources may have significant deleterious impacts in terms of direct and indirect land use change, loss of biodiversity and the impairment of ecosystem services, and competition with food production. A 'gap analysis' leads to recommendations for the improvement of the next generation scenarios and forecasts in order to provide more realistic projections for bioenergy uptake in the UK, although the lessons learned are applicable across much of the industrialised world. It was found that while all three low or zero carbon scenario studies had internal shortcomings from a bioenergy perspective, the analysis by BEIS stood out as having the greatest level of realism due to the account given to many of the critical factors and underlying issues relating to bioenergy uptake.

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“…The whole systems appraisal of energy technologies and the transition pathways has been undertaken (Hammond et al, this Section) within an overarching sustainability framework (Hammond and Jones, 2011), together with a set of evaluation criteria for specific energy technologies and pathways. It builds on earlier studies of simpler power networks (El-Fadel et al, 2011) and individual energy technologies (Hammond et al, 2011a).…”

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Challenges of the transition to a low carbon, more electric future: From here to 2050

Hammond

Pearson

2013

Energy Policy

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Sustainability Criteria for Energy Resources and Technologies

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Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Safety Management as Illustrated with an Example of the Polish Energy Sector

Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Safety Management as Illustrated with an Example of the Polish Energy Sector

Bioenergy utilization for a low carbon future in the UK: the evaluation of some alternative scenarios and projections

Challenges of the transition to a low carbon, more electric future: From here to 2050

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