PMID- 36603617
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230207
LR  - 20230207
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 866
DP  - 2023 Mar 25
TI  - A combined assessment of the energy, economic and environmental performance of a 
      photovoltaic system in the Italian context.
PG  - 161329
LID - S0048-9697(22)08433-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161329 [doi]
AB  - Policymakers are increasingly moving towards greater investments in research in 
      the renewable energy sector, in order to reduce costs, making private investment 
      affordable, so as to accelerate the achievement of grid parity. This evidence 
      boosts for investigating the way the convenience of investing in a solar 
      photovoltaic (PV) system, in Italy, is unrelated to any form of public incentive. 
      Under this perspective, this paper is focused upon designing a residential 3 kW 
      PV system and providing a full set of indicators for the assessment of its 
      multi-dimension performance in an holistic, integrated approach. Particularly, 
      energy and environmental indicators, likewise the Energy Payback Time (EPBT), 
      Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and Environmental Impact Mitigation potential 
      (EIMP) allowed the authors to measure some of the relevant sustainability-related 
      issues of a residential PV system. Those were found to be equal to 1.35 years, 
      7.05 and 23,215 kg CO(2) eq, respectively. Whereas, the authors used the 
      Levelized Cost of Energy (0.15064 euro/kWh), the Net Present Value (euro 2881), and the 
      Payback Period (8.26 years), to evaluate the economic and financial feasibility 
      of the PV system modelized. The variations of EPBT and EROI(EL) with respect to 
      solar radiation and the efficiency of the PV system and LCOE to discount rate and 
      initial investment cost have been investigated through a sensitivity analysis.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Paiano, Annarita
AU  - Paiano A
AD  - Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo 
      Moro, Largo Abbazia Santa Scolastica, 53-70124 Bari, Italy.
FAU - Lagioia, Giovanni
AU  - Lagioia G
AD  - Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo 
      Moro, Largo Abbazia Santa Scolastica, 53-70124 Bari, Italy.
FAU - Ingrao, Carlo
AU  - Ingrao C
AD  - Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo 
      Moro, Largo Abbazia Santa Scolastica, 53-70124 Bari, Italy. Electronic address: 
      carlo.ingrao@uniba.it.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230103
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
SB  - IM
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Crystalline silicon
OT  - Energy and environmental indicators
OT  - Financial and economic indicators
OT  - Performance indicators assessment
OT  - Residential photovoltaic system
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2023/01/06 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/06 06:01
CRDT- 2023/01/05 19:11
PHST- 2022/10/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/12/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/12/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/06 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/05 19:11 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(22)08433-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161329 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2023 Mar 25;866:161329. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161329. 
      Epub 2023 Jan 3.