Materials, energy, water, and emissions nexus impacts on the future contribution of PV solar technologies to global energy scenarios.

ABSTRACT: PV technologies are increasingly making significant contribution to global energy generation (GEG), attributed to their high potential of increasing efficiency, cost reduction, and improving energy security. These technologies however rely on metals that are identified as critical due to risks associated with their supply, and other materials that require energy and water for their production. In this paper, a comprehensive assessment of required materials for PV technologies, an analysis of their materials inflows, outflows, and stocks, an estimate of their maximum contribution to global energy scenarios (GES), and an estimate of energy and water required for their material production and associated CO₂ emissions under the nexus approach, have been carried out using a dynamic m

SUBMITTER: Elshkaki A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6917800 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature