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LCA of the current and future Italian energy mixes

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#Electricity Mix #Energy Sector #LCA #PNIEC

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LCA of the current and future Italian energy mixes

Electricity mix significantly affects LCA results, it is of utmost importance to have updated and detailed datasets for your study. In this website you can find datasets of four historical mixes (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022) and an electricity mix for 2030 and for 2040. The datasets are available in .csv format.

 
DESCRIPTION

These datasets represent the Life Cycle Inventory of the Italian gross electricity consumption mix. The gross electricity consumption mix represents the electricity generation excluding electricity produced from pumped hydro, plus the electricity import, minus the export. Grid and conversion losses to MV and LV are excluded. electricity consumption for auxiliary services are not included. The allocation methos is the Cut-off method (thus electricity from waste incineration is burden free). There are five historical mixes, one representing the gross electricity consumption mix in 2018, one in 2019, one in 2020, one in 2021 and one in 2022. There is one dataset representing the electricity mix in 2030 and one in 2040, according to the latest version of the PNIEC (integrated NAtional Energy and Climate Plan) (june 2024). For the background activity the Ecoinvent database version 3.3 has been used for mix 2018, for mixes 2019, 2020 and 2021 Ecoinvent version 3.8 has been used, while for mixes 2022, 2030 e 2040 Ecoinvent version 3.9.1 has been used.
 
APPLICATIONS

The datasets are in .csv format and can be imported in the most common LCA softwares to serve in project where an updated and detailed italian electricity mix is required. For prospective LCA use (i.e. the LCA of emerging technolgoies) and LCA studies in the medium term the electricity mix at 2030 ad at 2040 are available. The availiability of three historical mixes allows also to evaluate the evolution of the italian electricity system.
 
USERS

The datasets are available for researchers, universities, consultancies and LCA practictioners who need un updated electricity mix for their LCA studies or future mixes for prospective LCAs.
 
FOCUS

FOCUS

  1. A. Gargiulo, M.L. Carvalho, P. Girardi, “Life Cycle Assessment of Italian Electricity Scenarios to 2030”. MDPI Energies 2020, 13, 3852.
  2. M.L. Carvalho,  B. Marmiroli, P. Girardi, “Life cycle assessment of Italian electricity production and comparison with the European context”, Energy Reports, Volume 8, Supplement 3, 2022, Pages 561-568, ISSN 2352-4847.
  3. C. Ferrara,  B. Marmiroli, P. Girardi “Life Cycle Assessment of Photovoltaic electricity production in Italy: Current scenario and future developments, Science of total environment 2024,948,174846”

Product Acronym

LCA CIL_IT

Product Year

2025

Authors​

M. L. Carvalho, C. Ferrara, B. Marmiroli, P. Girardi (RSE S.p.A.)

Product Type

Database, Dataset

Projects

Energy scenarios and governance support (SEnATE)

Target​

Research

Related tags

#Electricity Mix #Energy Sector #LCA #PNIEC

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