Global energy demand and environmental concerns are the driving force for use of alternative, sustainable, and clean energy sources. Solar energy is the inexhaustible and CO 2-emission-free energy source worldwide.The Sun provides 1.4×10 5 TW power as received on the surface of the Earth and about 3.6×10 4 TW of this power is usable. In …
LCA is widely used to evaluate the environmental impacts of products or service-related environmental factors through their entire life cycle, and is often applied to solar PV modules (Hong et al., 2016; Baharwani et al., 2014; Ito et al., 2011; Stoppato, 2008; Alsema & de Wild-Schoten, 2007; de Wild-Scholten, 2013; Desideri, Proietti ...
Photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is considered as a promising solution to mitigate the environmental costs associated with the use of fossil fuels.However, the environmental impacts of constructing and operating PV solar energy remain unclear.
The Earth is warming at an alarming rate due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases produced predominantly by fossil fuel combustion [] an attempt to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, renewable energy technologies are being scaled up, particularly through solar photovoltaic power which accounted for approximately 60% of …
Worldwide, the installation of photovoltaic power systems has increased exponentially in recent years (Dhar et al., 2020). The negative environmental impacts of solar energy systems include visual ...
The impact of floating photovoltaic power plants on lake ...
With the development of clean energy, an increasing number of solar photovoltaic (PV) power stations have been established in drylands, these stations generate solar energy and change the plant growth environment to achieve economic and ecological benefits (Jahangiri et al., 2016; Li et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2019).
We contend that ground-mounted solar arrays that are designed and managed on the basis of ecological principles can provide a more sustainable approach …
Environmental and technical impacts of floating ...
Floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems, also called floatovoltaics, are a rapidly growing emerging technology application in which solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are sited directly on water. The water-based configuration of FPV systems can be mutually beneficial: Along with providing such benefits as reduced evaporation and algae growth, it …
Here we evaluate climate change impacts on solar photovoltaic (PV) power in Europe using the recent EURO-CORDEX ensemble of high-resolution climate projections together with a PV power production ...
During the early 2000s, Japan had the highest installed solar PV capacity and solar energy generation followed by Germany and the USA (Germany had more installed solar PV capacity but less solar energy generation than the USA). ... For PV plants, ideal types of land cover would have low solar insolation impairment and …
Co-locating solar photovoltaics with vegetation could provide a sustainable solution to meeting growing food and energy demands. However, studies …
However, the currently available evidence regarding the effects of photovoltaic installations on biodiversity is still scarce. More research is urgently needed …
Among the various types of renewable energy, solar photovoltaic has elicited the most attention because of its low pollution, abundant reserve, and endless supply. Solar photovoltaic technology generates both positive and negative effects on the environment. The environmental loss of 0.00666 yuan/kWh from solar photovoltaic …
1. Introduction. Replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources to reduce carbon emissions is an important step toward achieving carbon neutrality (Armstrong et al., 2014) recent years, great progress has been made in exploiting renewable resources to optimize existing energy infrastructure ().Photovoltaic (PV) power generation using solar …
Moreover, the aeolian sediment transport on the solar PV array was significantly affected by wind direction. The value of sand inhibition rate ranged from 35.46% to 88.51% at different wind directions. ... (R&D and Demonstration of Ecological Deserticulture Technology of Solar Photovoltaic Power Station in Sand Area) and the …
Our results revealed new opportunities and challenges for solar PV infrastructure in sandy ecosystems based on its socioeconomic and environmental co …
As the urgency to decarbonise global energy supplies accelerates, photovoltaic (PV) arrays, which rely on panels of photovoltaic cells ("solar panels") to convert solar irradiation into electricity, have become increasingly important for "green" utility-scale power generation in the face of changes in global energy markets [[1], [2], [3 ...
The NPV of solar PV stations is shown in Fig. 3.DSPV for the C/I sectors (DSPV-C/I) significantly outperforms the other two modes, and can make profits across China without any subsidy support, mainly benefiting from the large proportion of self-consumption and relatively high retail electricity price for the C/I sectors.
EPB exhibits excellent biodegradability and has been designed for various applications, including as a sustainable and eco-friendly coating for solar photovoltaic panels. This material not only ...
Environmental impacts of solar PV and solar thermal are summarized. • Thin film photovoltaics (TFPVs) can be recycled using large metal smelters. • Toxic cadmium can be controlled through temperature and concentration. • Factors impeding the commercialization of Solar PVs and thermal systems are presented.
Of these, 25 are important ecological corridors in both cases, 7 are no longer important ecological corridors without PV projects, and the remaining 7 become important ecological corridors with PV projects. A comparison of the changes in the length of the ecological corridors is shown in Fig. 7. It can be seen that the PV projects have, …
The Photovoltaic Desert Control Projects mainly focus on establishing tree-shrub belts around the PV power stations to reduce the impact of wind erosion on the PV power stations and plant green economic crops or psammophytic shrubs and herbaceous plants inside the PV power stations, which can facilitate sustainable …
of China''s burgeoning solar energy sector, propelled by policy subsidies (Hong et al., 2016; Huang et al., 2017; Yu et al., 2017). The LCA method has been instrumental in evaluating the environmental trade-offs of China''s solar photovoltaic industry (Xu et al., 2018). Regarding biomass energy, the last decade has
This study conducts a comprehensive comparison of the environmental impacts of solar photovoltaic power generation (SPPG) and coal power, employing both life cycle assessment and ecological ...
1. Introduction. The increase in global energy demand and dramatic drop in prices of solar modules resulted in exponential growth of photovoltaic (PV) market with cumulative global installed capacity reaching 5345 GW by the end of 2019 (IEA PVPS, 2020).The present effort and research focuses on decreasing cost and increasing …
Land Degradation & Development is an interdisciplinary journal for the environmental and soil science communities covering all aspects of sustainable land management. Abstract The arid sandy areas have great potential for producing solar power, and a large number of solar photovoltaic (PV) power (SPP) stations have been set-up in …
This study scrutinizes the reliability and validity of existing analyses that focus on the impact of various environmental factors on a photovoltaic (PV) system''s performance. For the first time, four environmental factors (the accumulation of dust, water droplets, birds'' droppings, and partial shading conditions) affecting system performance …
Social, environmental, and economic consequences of ...