Overview of Energy LCA at NETL: LCA at DOE Special Session
- National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Albany, OR (United States)
- Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, VA (United States)
Evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of energy technology and policy options requires the comparison of those options on a common basis, which includes not only the impacts of converting fuel to useful energy, but of infrastructure construction, extraction and transportation of fuel, and transport of the final energy product to the end user. Further, environmental costs and benefits must be weighed against economic analyses with identical boundaries. At the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, life cycle analysis (LCA) is used as tool and framework for performing these types of evaluations. This overview will describe the LCA process at NETL, including unique application of stochastic methods to environmental and economic analyses, and show highlights from several recent studies such as a complete inventory of natural gas extraction, and a comparison of advanced power technology options.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FE0004001
- OSTI ID:
- 1513805
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL-2016/1770
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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