Paulillo, Andrea;
Cui, Xiaofei;
Brown, Paul;
Striolo, Alberto;
Lettieri, Paola;
(2023)
Geothermal Energy Impact Estimator: A software application for estimating the life-cycle environmental impacts of geothermal energy [version 3; peer review: 3 approved].
Open Research Europe
, 3
, Article 2. 10.12688/openreseurope.15304.3.
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Abstract
Geothermal energy is a renewable source of base-load power that is expected to play an important role in the transition to a low-carbon economy. In this article, we introduce a novel software application – named Geothermal Energy Impact Estimator – which computes the environmental impacts, including carbon emissions, of existing or future geothermal plants, using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. The software application is user-friendly and was designed to be used by geothermal companies and policy makers. We provide two specific use cases of the software application that represent existing plants in Iceland and in the UK.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Geothermal Energy Impact Estimator: A software application for estimating the life-cycle environmental impacts of geothermal energy [version 3; peer review: 3 approved] |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.12688/openreseurope.15304.3 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15304.3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 Paulillo A et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Renewable energy, geothermal wells, Enhanced Geothermal Systems, carbon footprint, simplified models, allocation strategy, policymaking, decision-making |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173251 |
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