On 5 April 2016 the JRC presented the interactive and collaborative online European Energy Efficiency Platform. This beta platform is conceived to fill the gap opened by scattered data and fragmented knowledge resulting from a rapidly growing energy efficiency market. It is expected to be both a one-stop shop for information retrieval and a meeting point for experts to exchange data and reduce redundant activities.
Background qualitative analysis of the European Reference Life Cycle Database (ELCD) energy datasets – part I: fuel datasets
Introduction: The aim of this study is to identify areas of potential improvement of the European Reference Life
Cycle Database (ELCD) fuel datasets.Case description: The revision is based on the data quality indicators described by the ILCD Handbook, applied on
sectorial basis. These indicators evaluate the technological, geographical and time-related representativeness of the
dataset and the appropriateness in terms of completeness, precision and methodology.Discussion and evaluation: Results show that ELCD fuel datasets have a very good quality in general terms,
nevertheless some findings and recommendations in order to improve the quality of Life-Cycle Inventories have
been derived. Moreover, these results ensure the quality of the fuel-related datasets to any LCA practitioner, and
provide insights related to the limitations and assumptions underlying in the datasets modelling.Conclusions: Giving this information, the LCA practitioner will be able to decide whether the use of the ELCD fuel
datasets is appropriate based on the goal and scope of the analysis to be conducted. The methodological approach
would be also useful for dataset developers and reviewers, in order to improve the overall DQR of databases.
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