ENEP427 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Life-Cycle Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Air Pollution

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Energy and Environmental Policy
• Course: ENEP427
• Professor: Dr. Agbemabiese

Document Summary

These questions can be answered effectively only with good data, information and knowledge about energy and its relationships with society, economy and the environment. Basic analytical methods for acquiring the necessary knowledge. Energy analysis - first step to determine and compare energy consumption and production of different options. Often the most useful energy analysis is done by calculating simple energy consumption efficiency. Economic cost-effectiveness of energy products and services defines energy analysis in terms of economic and financial costs and benefits. Environmental assessment - looks beyond economic and financial effects to determine that impacts of energy options on the natural and human environment. It can use a range or impact indicators, such as greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, toxic effluents, land and water requirements, human health effects, risk and uncertainty, aesthetic impacts, and ecological effects. Life cycle assessment is fundamental to sustainability analysis and gives us a broad framework for energy analysis in terms of both time and criteria.