Comparative analysis of direct employment generated by renewable and non-renewable power plants
| Autor: | María Pilar de la Cruz López, Manuel Lara Coira, Alfredo del Caño Gochi, Juan José Cartelle Barros |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Engineering
020209 energy Biomass Thermal power station 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Nuclear decommissioning 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Operations management Electrical and Electronic Engineering Non-renewable resource 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Civil and Structural Engineering business.industry Mechanical Engineering Photovoltaic system Probabilistic logic Building and Construction Environmental economics Pollution Renewable energy General Energy Electricity business |
| Zdroj: | Energy. 139:542-554 |
| ISSN: | 0360-5442 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.energy.2017.08.025 |
| Popis: | A probabilistic and analytical model is presented to assess the direct employment generated by power plants, throughout their lifecycles, from when the fuel is being extracted to the decommissioning stage. To represent the majority of regions and countries around the world, this model provides a global, general and probabilistic vision for all the most common kinds of power plants. Direct job creation is expressed per unit of electricity produced over the plant's lifetime, by means of a normalisation process. Renewables obtained a direct employment generation of around 0.1 to 4 job-years/GWh. On the other hand, the same figure for non-renewable power plants is about 0.1–2.4 job-years/GWh. The results reinforce the idea that some renewable -such as photovoltaic, biomass, mini-hydro and high temperature solar thermal power plants-are still the options with the highest direct employment generation. Nevertheless, this study demonstrates that not all renewables present a high direct employment generation. It also shows that non-renewable alternatives can compete with their renewable counterparts under certain conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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