Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Arvesen, Anders"
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A Methodology for Integrated, Multiregional Life Cycle Assessment Scenarios under Large-Scale Technological Change
Gibon, Thomas; Wood, Richard; Arvesen, Anders; Bergesen, Joseph; Suh, Sangwon; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Climate change mitigation demands large-scale technological change on a global level and, if successfully implemented, will significantly affect how products and services are produced and consumed. In order to anticipate ... -
Assessing the Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Power Generation and Power Transmission in the North Sea
Birkeland, Christine (Master thesis, 2011)An integrated approach to climate and energy policy is required to meet the challenges associated with climate changes caused by anthropogenic emissions. At the same time, the demand for electricity is increasing. Wind ... -
Assessing the life cycle environmental impacts of wind power: A review of present knowledge and research needs
Arvesen, Anders; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)We critically review present knowledge of the life cycle environmental impacts of wind power. We find that the current body of life cycle assessments (LCA) of wind power provides a fairly good overall understanding of ... -
Considering only first-order effects? How simplifications lead to unrealistic technology optimism in climate change mitigation
Arvesen, Anders; Bright, Ryan M.; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)This article challenges the notion that energy efficiency and ‘clean’ energy technologies can deliver sufficient degrees of climate change mitigation. By six arguments not widely recognized in the climate policy arena, we ... -
Contribution of forest wood products to negative emissions: historical comparative analysis from 1960 to 2015 in Norway, Sweden and Finland
Iordan, Cristina Maria; Hu, Xiangping; Arvesen, Anders; Kauppi, Pekka; Cherubini, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Forests and forest products can significantly contribute to climate change mitigation by stabilizing and even potentially decreasing the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Harvested wood ... -
Cooling aerosols and changes in albedo counteract warming from CO2 and black carbon from forest bioenergy in Norway
Arvesen, Anders; Cherubini, Francesco; del Alamo Serrano, Gonzalo; Astrup, Rasmus Andreas; Becidan, Michael; Belbo, Helmer; Goile, Franziska; Grytli, Tuva; Guest, Geoffrey; Lausselet, Carine; Rørstad, Per Kr.; Rydså, Line; Seljeskog, Morten; Skreiberg, Øyvind; Vezhapparambu, Veena Sajith; Strømman, Anders Hammer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Climate impacts of forest bioenergy result from a multitude of warming and cooling effects and vary by location and technology. While past bioenergy studies have analysed a limited number of climate-altering pollutants and ... -
Deriving life cycle assessment coefficients for application in integrated assessment modelling
Arvesen, Anders; Luderer, Gunnar; Pehl, Michaja; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The fields of life cycle assessment (LCA) and integrated assessment (IA) modelling today have similar interests in assessing macro-level transformation pathways with a broad view of environmental concerns. Prevailing IA ... -
Direct and Indirect Energy Consumption of Households in Beijing
Arvesen, Anders (Master thesis, 2008)China's economy has grown at remarkable rates in the last three decades, bringing about big improvements in people's quality of life. On the downside, the increased economic activity has contributed to serious environmental ... -
Environmental Assessment of Electricity Transmission Grid Upgrades Triggered by the Increasing Utilization of Variable and Remote Renewable Energy
Saitov, Rustem (Master thesis, 2014)This study aims to perform hybrid life cycle assessment of potential environmental implications due to expansion of electricity transmission grid which would allow to including intermittent energy sources. Existing studies ... -
Environmental assessment of electricity transmission using input-output analysis
Valheim, Tord Munro (Master thesis, 2016)The purpose of this master thesis was to present an environmental assessment of impacts related to electricity transmission. This was done with the use of two different case studies and by conducting an input-output analysis ... -
Environmental impacts of high penetration renewable energy scenarios for Europe
Berrill, Peter; Arvesen, Anders; Scholz, Yvonne; Gils, Hans Christian; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The prospect of irreversible environmental alterations and an increasingly volatile climate pressurises societies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, thereby mitigating climate change impacts. As global electricity demand ... -
Environmental impacts of large-scale adoptions of hydrogen as energy carrier: a scenario-based life cycle assessment
Aall, Ørjan Kongsvik (Master thesis, 2017)The world is facing a severe threat in terms of climate change, and the use of fossil fuels for transport and electricity production is a major contributor. The use of hydrogen is foreseen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) ... -
Environmental implications of large-scale adoption of wind power: a scenario-based life cycle assessment
Arvesen, Anders; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)We investigate the potential environmental impacts of a large-scale adoption of wind power to meet up to 22% of the world's growing electricity demand. The analysis builds on life cycle assessments of generic onshore and ... -
Health benefits, ecological threats of low-carbon electricity
Gibon, Thomas; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Arvesen, Anders; Singh, Bhawna; Verones, Francesca (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Stabilizing global temperature will require a shift to renewable or nuclear power from fossil power and the large-scale deployment of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) for remaining fossil fuel use. Non-climate co-benefits of ... -
Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies
Hertwich, Edgar G.; Gibon, Thomas; Bouman, Evert; Arvesen, Anders; Suh, Sangwon; Heath, Garvin; Bergesen, Joseph; Ramirez, Andrea; Vega, Mabel; Shi, Lei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Decarbonization of electricity generation can support climate-change mitigation and presents an opportunity to address pollution resulting from fossil-fuel combustion. Generally, renewable technologies require higher initial ... -
Life cycle assessment demonstrates environmental co-benefits and trade-offs of low-carbon electricity supply options
Gibon, Thomas; Arvesen, Anders; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The targeted transition towards an electricity system with low or even negative greenhouse gas emissions affords a chance to address other environmental concerns as well, but may potentially have to adjust to the limited ... -
Life cycle assessment of an offshore grid interconnecting wind farms and customers across the North Sea
Arvesen, Anders; Nes, Rasmus Nikolai; Huertas-Hernando, Daniel; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Purpose: This study aims to contribute to an improved understanding of the environmental implications of offshore power grid and wind power development pathways. To achieve this aim, we present two assessments. First, we ... -
Life cycle assessment of an offshore grid interconnecting wind farms and customers across the North Sea
Arvesen, Anders; Nes, Rasmus Nikolai; Huertas-Hernando, Daniel; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This study aims to contribute to an improved understanding of the environmental implications of offshore power grid and wind power development pathways. To achieve this aim, we present two assessments. First, we investigate ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Desalinated Water for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Kvadsheim, Mari Hellvik (Master thesis, 2013)Currently, fossil fuels supply 85% of the world?s energy demand. Nevertheless, we consume more than we are able to produce from new discoveries of fossil resources. As energy demand is predicted to grow rapidly over the ... -
Life cycle assessment of electric power generation by wind turbines containing rare earth magnets
Venås, Christoffer (Master thesis, 2015)Direct-drive permanent magnet generator (DD-PMG) wind turbines are becoming a larger part of the growing offshore wind turbine market. The strong permanent magnets used, the NdFeB magnets, contains neodymium metal. The ...