Development of an Open-Source Life Cycle Baseline for Electricity Consumption in the United States - LCAXIX

Conference · Wed Sep 25 04:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:1577066

Cooney, Gregory; Jamieson, Matthew ^[1]; Zaimes, George G.

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1. NETL

This work was presented at the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment 2019 Conference (LCAXIX) in Tucson, AZ on September 25, 2019. The electricity and power generation sector in the United States (U.S.) is undergoing a period of rapid transformation via the adoption of natural gas-fired power plants, incorporation of renewable feedstocks, and phasing-out of older power-generation systems (e.g. legacy coal and nuclear). However, this historic shift in the supply/demand of electricity and diversification of power generation technologies is accompanied by resource consumption and emissions to land, water, and soil, and thus may have unintended environmental consequences. EPA, NETL, ANL, and NREL collaborated to develop an open source multifunctional life cycle model to quantify baseline life cycle impacts of U.S. electricity consumption. This presentation is intended to walk through the modeling assumptions, structure, and results for the released inventory.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: FE
• DOE Contract Number: FE0025912
• OSTI ID: 1577066
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English