Due to the result of the sudden fossil fuels over-night price rises of
1973/1974, coupled with the depletion of the traditional energy resources,
many initiatives globally have addressed the efficient use of these resources.
Since then, several renewable energy sources have been introduced as
alternatives to traditional resources to protect environmental resources and
to improve quality of life. Globally, there are more than a quarter of the
human population experiencing an energy crisis, particularly those living
in the rural areas of developing countries. One typical example of this is
Nigeria. This is a country with approximately 80% of her population
consistently relying on combustible biomass from wood and its charcoal
derivative. Nigeria has an abundant amount of both renewable and fossil
fuel resources, but due to the lack of a reasonable energy policy (until
recently), it has concentrated on traditional fossil fuels alone. Renewable
energy is now Globally considered as a solution for mitigating climate
change and environmental pollution. To assess the sustainability of
renewable energy systems, the use of sustainability indicators is often
necessary. These indicators are not only able to evaluate all the
sustainability criteria of the renewable energy sources,1 but also can
provide numerical results of sustainability assessment for different
objective systems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19167 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Owaka, Smart O. |
| Contributors | Carruthers, Andrew, Munive-Hernandez, J. Eduardo |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, MPhil |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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