Urgency of Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment Using Appropriate Technical Methods for Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) in Indonesia: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Approach
Keywords:
Coal-fired power plants, life cycle assessment, environmental impact assessment, inventory dataAbstract
Coal-fired power plants (CFPP) remain a key source of electricity in Indonesia, but they significantly contribute to environmental issues, especially greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. As awareness of these environmental impacts grows, the study of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applications for CFPP has become increasingly important for comprehensively evaluating their operational effects on the environment.This study aims to assess how the LCA method has been applied to CFPP in Indonesia by various researchers. It focuses on the consistency of methodologies used, examining the availability and representativeness of data, scope, functional units, inventory data, impact category selection, weighting, and data processing techniques in line with the fundamental principles of LCA. The analysis shows that most studies rely on secondary data processed using LCA software such as OpenLCA and SimaPro. The findings indicate that the primary impact category analyzed is greenhouse gas emissions, using a functional unit of 1 kWh of electricity. While mitigation efforts, such as co-firing technology, have been implemented, there is still a pressing need for enhanced environmental management policies.
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