Life cycle assessment: A perspective of improvement of hydro-plants for intensify “green electricity”
Debapratim Goswami, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Puja Basak, Uttara Das, Champa Nandi
Abstract
Compared to the increased energy demand in the 21st century, Hydropower (also known as water power) is traditionally considered one of the “Green Energy”. Some advanced researches clarifies that various renewable generations have been performed well to fight back the drastic climate impacts. Though some of them are not as suitable for clean eco-friendly production due to the impacts on eco-system. In recent researches, the Life Cycle Assessment is a great tool to investigate the impact of renewable power plants on eco-system relating upon the whole life cycle based emissions.The Main key function of the paper is to investigate and observe the environmental impacts of the “ITAIPU Hydro-electric Power Plant”, located on the Parana River, between the geographical border area of Brazil and Paraguay”. To identify the environmental impacts CML 2001 have been adapted and the investigation shows that the construction and operation phase has the greater impacts on the eco-system. Through this investigation the identification of environmental hot-spots has been recognized which will help future renewable plant developers to take scientific steps for constructing more environment friendly power plant for sustainable grren electricity production.