Resource Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems—A Review

The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the energy transition may lead to trade-offs with other impacts on environment, society, and economy. One challenge is resource use due increasing demand for high-tech metals minerals. A review current state art assessment systems was conducted identify gaps in research application. Publications covering complete supplying a detailed were focus evaluation. Overall, 92 publications identified categorized type system covered applied abiotic methods. total 78 out sub-systems renewable systems, nine considered assessment. Most group “complete assessment” found grey literature. Several different aspects assess use. Thirty focused similar including criticality supply risks, but technology-specific are rarely assessed systems. Few included sector coupling technologies, among most relevant aim this paper one third did not conduct an indicator-driven