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Towards Social Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Systems: case study on offshore wind farms from companies’ perspective

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In the energy transition context, private decision-makers and policymakers must choose between different energy scenarios for process improvement and territorial planning. Hence, implications of the development of these technologies need to be objectively analysed to ensure their alignment with energy transition objectives. Life Cycle Analysis is nowadays one of the most appropriate methods to assess impacts related to products and services. While LCA application for environmental assessment is already consolidated, social aspects of sustainability are not systematically evaluated yet. For application to social impacts, the UNEP/SETAC Guidelines propose a framework to conduct Social-LCA. However, its application to specific systems is still under development. Most frequently, social issues included in sustainability analyses on electricity generation sector concern number of employment or health and safety issues. Moreover, few studies in the literature present a rigorous approach to account for social impacts affecting different stakeholder categories, especially at territorial level. Offshore wind farm development by industrial requires accounting for many criteria related to territories’ issues and social acceptance. This study presents a S-LCA method based on industrial perception for defining the priority social aspects and related stakeholders in the context of offshore wind farms. It is conducted in the framework of project which relies on close collaboration with key industrial partners. Since LCA results are especially suitable for comparative purposes, the S-LCA method must be designed by considering the social issues not only at offshore wind farm scale, but also at power generation sectorial scale. The identified ranking of social issues will be used to identify where the S-LCA study will focus on in the next steps.
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hal-04362122 , version 1 (22-12-2023)

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Jérémie Lehmann, Rhoda Fofack-Garcia, Paula Pérez-López. Towards Social Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Systems: case study on offshore wind farms from companies’ perspective. The 10th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Sep 2021, Stuttgart, Germany. ⟨hal-04362122⟩
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