Life Cycle Analysis of Electricity Generation and Battery Technologies for use in Ontario

As Ontario’s electricity grid continues to evolve, all technologies must be evaluated on a life cycle basis. This will ensure that potential environmental impacts and economic costs are understood in advance of installation, and will permit fair and comprehensive comparisons amongst alternatives.
This project seeks to investigate the life cycle environmental and cost performance of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV), wind, small modular reactor (SMR), and battery technologies for use in Ontario. Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) will be employed to examine one project using each technology, as well as combinations of renewables and battery technologies. Analyses will be completed for typical supply chains, as well as hypothetical Ontario-/Canada-centric supply chains.

Faculty Supervisor:

Xianke Lin;Kirk Atkinson;Jennifer McKellar

Student:

Partner:

Ontario Power Generation (Toronto, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program: