Final Site-Wide Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact: National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Technology Center

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF R&D PROGRAMMES: THE CASE OF THE DANISH ForskEL PROGRAMME

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1340002 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAR LYHNE ◽  
INGER PIHL BYRIEL
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Electricity Sector ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
The Future ◽  
Making A Difference

Despite their important role in shaping the technologies of the future, public research and development (R&D) programmes are rarely based on systematic assessments of the environmental effects. R&D programmes thus allocate a huge amount of financial resources to projects, which potentially may cause severe negative environmental impacts. This paper presents an innovative environmental assessment practice on R&D programmes in Denmark. It reports on the challenges and experiences of assessing the Danish R&D programme ForskEL, which promotes R&D projects within the electricity sector. The programme is characterised by uncertainty about impacts and incomparable project types and technologies. A methodology for dealing with these challenges is presented, and experiences from a testing of the methodology on the 2012 programme are reflected upon. Finally the assessment is discussed in terms of its potential for making a difference for the future development and deployment of renewable energy.

scholarly journals Energy Audit of Agricultural Enterprises: New Approaches and Assessment Criteria (Following the Russian-Finnish Project Interim Outcomes)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
H. Soininen ◽  
T. Ranta-Korhonen ◽  
E. V. Timofeev ◽  
A. V. Erk
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Energy Audit ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Energy Auditing ◽  
Energy Audits

Currently implemented project “Russian-Finnish Bioeconomy Competence Сentre – BioCom” within South-East Finland – Russia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020 aims to integrate the BioEconomy principles and approaches into the agricultural sector of the neighbouring border areas of Russia and Finland. The energy efficiency of farming and sustainable use of energy resources is one of the fundamentals of the bio-economy concept. The energy audit is the first step in identifying opportunities to reduce the energy inputs on the farms.(Research purpose) To discover the new approaches to the energy auditing of agricultural enterprises and new assessment indicators following the project experience.(Materials and methods) Four farms were selected for the energy inspection – two farms located in the Leningrad Region, Russia, and two farms located in the South Savo Region, Finland. In Russia the standard energy auditing, measurement, and calculation procedure was applied. The systems of electrical power supply, heat supply, water supply, sewage, and building envelopes on the farms were examined and estimated.(Results and discussion) Following the outcomes of the energy audits in the project framework and the previous relevant experience, the basic energy-saving and efficiency improvement measures were established. Three new approaches to the energy auditing of agricultural enterprises were suggested – energy and environmental assessment of applied technologies and equipment; consideration of the application of renewable energy-generating sources; consideration of the conversion of vehicles to biogas.(Conclusions) The study outcomes proved the energy audits to play an important role in improving the energy efficiency of agricultural production provided they are mandatory, take into account the energy environmental assessment criteria, consider the application of renewable energy-generating sources and the conversion of vehicles to biogas.

STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND ADVANCED RENEWABLE ENERGY IN ONTARIO: MOVING FORWARD OR BLOWING IN THE WIND?

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1340006 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER MULVIHILL ◽  
MARK WINFIELD ◽  
JOSE ETCHEVERRY
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Canadian Province

This article explores the Canadian province of Ontario's approach to environmental assessment and SEA to electricity issues, its efforts to adapt these processes to facilitate the rapid development of renewable energy sources, and the potential contributions that an SEA approach might have made to these efforts. The province's experience may carry useful lessons for other jurisdictions considering the interplay between environmental assessment processes and strategies designed to move energy systems in the direction of greater sustainability.

Economic and environmental assessment of renewable energy micro-systems in a developing country

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís P. Amaral ◽  
António Araújo ◽  
Edmilson Mendes ◽  
Nelson Martins
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Micro Systems
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