Embodied carbon of energy technologies

Hey Bryan,

this Paper by Jens Peters and Marcel Weil evaluates a lot of the Life-Cycle Inventory data that recent studies used, traced them back to primary data sets (such as Ecoinvent) and makes a suggestion for a common basis for further LCAs of battery technologies:

A good overview on LCAs of “sustainable energy technologies” but already a little bit older is provided by Singh et al. (2013) here:

Otherwise, I would have also suggested Michaja’s paper referred to by Tom and a predecessor by the same people from PIK and some people from NTNU:

More on the database site, I only know projects that have not been updated recently:


If you’re interested in digging deeper into the topic, it may make sense that you / your chair set up your own node in the Life Cycle Data Network maintained by the JRC

I can provide you with Ecoinvent datasets if you need some :slight_smile:

Cheers
Niklas