Environmental Effect Analysis for PV system using LCA

LCA를 이용한 태양광발전의 환경영향분석

  • 최봉하 (한국에너지기술연구원 에너지정책연구부) ;
  • 박수억 (한국에너지기술연구원 에너지정책연구부) ;
  • 이덕기 (한국에너지기술연구원 에너지정책연구부)
  • Published : 2007.06.21

Abstract

This paper analyses the environmental effect of 100kw PV system installed in Tibet using Life Cycle Assessment(LCA). Then, energy payback time(EPT) and life-cycle $CO_2$ emission rate are estimated based on life-cycle of the PV system. As a result of the estimation, 6 year of EPT and 20 g-C/kWh of $CO_2$ emission rate are obtained. In China, average $CO_2$ emission rate of fossil fuel power generation plant is 260 g-C/kWh. This shows that PV system would be very promising for global environmental issues. For advanced LCA, we need to collect detailed and various data about raw material of PV system.

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