Understanding the life cycle surface land requirements of natural gas-fired electricity
| Autor: | Dan Ben-Horin, Ehsan Mohammadi, Sarah M. Jordaan, Jordan Macknick, Garvin Heath, Victoria Urrea, Brian Bush, Danielle J. Marceau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Power station
Land use Land footprint Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry 020209 energy Fossil fuel Right of way Midstream Environmental engineering Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Fuel Technology Geography Electricity generation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electricity business |
| Zdroj: | Nature Energy. 2:804-812 |
| ISSN: | 2058-7546 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41560-017-0004-0 |
| Popis: | The surface land use of fossil fuel acquisition and utilization has not been well characterized, inhibiting consistent comparisons of different electricity generation technologies. Here we present a method for robust estimation of the life cycle land use of electricity generated from natural gas through a case study that includes inventories of infrastructure, satellite imagery and well-level production. Approximately 500 sites in the Barnett Shale of Texas were sampled across five life cycle stages (production, gathering, processing, transmission and power generation). Total land use (0.62 m2 MWh−1, 95% confidence intervals ±0.01 m2 MWh−1) was dominated by midstream infrastructure, particularly pipelines (74%). Our results were sensitive to power plant heat rate (85–190% of the base case), facility lifetime (89–169%), number of wells per site (16–100%), well lifetime (92–154%) and pipeline right of way (58–142%). When replicated for other gas-producing regions and different fuels, our approach offers a route to enable empirically grounded comparisons of the land footprint of energy choices. Understanding land-use requirements for the life cycle of electricity generation allows for consistent comparisons of different technologies. Jordaan et al. present a method that leverages highly resolved, empirical data sets to give robust estimates of land use for natural-gas-fired electricity. |
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