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Implications of energy policy on a product system's dynamic life-cycle environmental impact: Survey and model

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  • Choi, Jun-Ki
  • Friley, Paul
  • Alfstad, Thomas

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Successfully developing and manufacturing industrial products requires considering the economic- and environmental-factors that span multiple spatial- and temporal-scales. Here, we propose an integrated approach combining an energy-economic model with a life-cycle assessment to analyze the impacts of energy policies on the dynamic changes in the various environmental impacts of a product system. We employ the Market Allocation (MARKAL) framework to foresee the changes in several economic- and technological-parameters over specific periods for different energy policies. Furthermore, we create a dynamic life-cycle inventory database to assess the changes in the future life-cycle environmental impact of a current product/process system. Our proposed method may guide industry to proactively prepare for the possible effects of different energy policies on their current product/process system's environmental profile so that they can make strategic decisions on modifications to, and investments in their production processes thereby to enhance their environmental- and economic-performance while meeting the various emission-abatement targets.

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  • Choi, Jun-Ki & Friley, Paul & Alfstad, Thomas, 2012. "Implications of energy policy on a product system's dynamic life-cycle environmental impact: Survey and model," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 16(7), pages 4744-4752.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:16:y:2012:i:7:p:4744-4752
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.05.032
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