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Renewable energies for Graciosa Island, Azores – Life Cycle Assessment of electricity generation
The Graciosa project combines a large scale battery energy storage system with renewable electricity generation from wind power and photovoltaics in a hybrid power plant to reduce the environmental impacts caused by the previous electricity generation by 100 % diesel combustion on Graciosa Island, Azores. The results of a Life Cycle Assessment show a reduction of environmental impacts of approx. 43 % due to the transformation to the hybrid electricity supply system with high shares of renewable energies (65 %). In the new electricity supply system, the majority of environmental impacts (> 60 %) is still caused by the remaining diesel based electricity generation. Environmental impacts, which are associated with the construction of the large scale battery energy storage system, account for only 6 % of total impacts. Wind power and photovoltaics account for 18 % and 14 %, respectively.
Renewable energies for Graciosa Island, Azores – Life Cycle Assessment of electricity generation
The Graciosa project combines a large scale battery energy storage system with renewable electricity generation from wind power and photovoltaics in a hybrid power plant to reduce the environmental impacts caused by the previous electricity generation by 100 % diesel combustion on Graciosa Island, Azores. The results of a Life Cycle Assessment show a reduction of environmental impacts of approx. 43 % due to the transformation to the hybrid electricity supply system with high shares of renewable energies (65 %). In the new electricity supply system, the majority of environmental impacts (> 60 %) is still caused by the remaining diesel based electricity generation. Environmental impacts, which are associated with the construction of the large scale battery energy storage system, account for only 6 % of total impacts. Wind power and photovoltaics account for 18 % and 14 %, respectively.
Renewable energies for Graciosa Island, Azores – Life Cycle Assessment of electricity generation
Stenzel, Peter (author) / Schreiber, Andrea (author) / Marx, Josefine (author) / Wulf, Christina (author) / Schreieder, Michael (author) / Stephan, Lars (author)
2017-01-01
Energy procedia 135, 62 - 74 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.487
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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