Opportunities and Challenges in Designing Sustainable Energy Supply Systems | Chapter 7 | Science and Technology: Developments and Applications Vol. 4

The step of designing energy supply systems in a professional manner has represented without any doubt a real advance in humanity's evolution. The possibility of having unbounded access to needed energy independently of existing places and the status quo has assured huge progress in technology as well as proper evolutions in all human activity domains. On the other side, conventional energy technologies have been connected over the years to undesired impacts on the environment recently on society. In this regard, the main objective of this chapter is to emphasize the fact that opportunities and challenges in designing and operating energy supply systems must be carefully approached. Recent developments emphasize that various types of energy supply systems must be holistically considered independently if they are based on fossil fuels or on renewable energy resources. By using methods and instruments of technology assessment (TA) to recognize future potentials in this field, appropriate strategies can be designed for trying to finally get sustainable energy supply systems. In this context, the European Green Deal is to be mentioned as a strategy trying to overcome challenges connected to environmental pollution and climate change to succeed in transforming specific energy supply activities into resource-efficient and competitive ones. Appropriate integrative methods for analyzing and assessing environmental impacts can be successfully applied, being the key findings of the presented research. In this regard tools based on establishing specific environmental footprints are presented for environmental impact assessment, the main goal of actual research being finding ways to mitigate corresponding environmental impact. Thus, practical implications for real-world applications and policymaking are given by the possibility of considering interdisciplinary tasks for recognizing diverse innovation odds by consequently supporting the future design of sustainable energy supply systems.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Ildiko Tulbure
University “1 Decembrie 1918” din Alba Iulia, Romania, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Doctoral School “Materials and Environmental Engineering”, Romania and Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.

 

Marius Berca
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Doctoral School “Materials and Environmental Engineering”, Romania and Oltenia Energy Complex, Targu Jiu, Romania.

 

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