Interdisciplinary Comparative Regional Assessment of Opportunities and Challenges of Alternative Energy Technologies and Their Environmental Impacts In Relation To Energy Transition

The purpose of this study is to explore the opportunities and challenges of alternative/renewable energy technologies in different regions, particularly Alberta and Bavaria (Germany), and their environmental impacts for proper policy decision making in relation to the interface of energy transition, climate change and environmental impact.
The project is significant because it will contribute to the existing knowledge on the need for reduction of excessive emission of greenhouse gas through energy generation and other anthropogenic activities that have the potentials to increase global warming. It promotes environmental sustainability in an interdisciplinary and unique manner by presenting a research approach that uses integrated modeling systems to cut across environment, energy and socio-economic interactions.
The study investigates possible barriers that keep the regions of interest from achieving complete or higher percentage of the ongoing energy transitions. Such challenge includes lack of renewable energy storage facilities, excessive dependency on cheap fossil gas, economic and the overall environmental impacts from alternative technologies.
It is expected that this research will contribute significantly to the body of literature, which as yet hasn’t documented economic, social and environmental impacts from our selected combinations of renewable gas plants technologies until the 2050 in a systematic and consistent manner.

Faculty Supervisor:

Joule Bergerson

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Partner:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary

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