Technology Assessment Group

The Technology Assessment group is part of the multi-disciplinary Laboratory for Energy systems Analysis (LEA) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and is the continuation of the former GaBE Project. Technology Assessment incorporates a comprehensive range of research areas to achieve three main objectives:

1. To improve understanding and thereby enable comparisons of current energy technologies and future energy options for the electricity, heating and transport sectors based on environmental, economic and socially relevant factors.
2. To provide quantitative, systematic, and interdisciplinary assessments of energy technologies and energy supply strategies through the development and application of consistent methodological frameworks and databases.
3. To support rational decision-making for sustainable development in the Swiss and international energy sectors, and to communicate balanced research findings to decision-makers and stakeholders.

Langkau, S., Steubing, B., Mutel, C., Ajie, M. P., Erdmann, L., Voglhuber-Slavinsky, A., & Janssen, M. A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL). The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2023), 1-25. doi: 10.1007/s11367-023-02175-9

Ouellet-Plamondon C., Zhang, X., et al. (2023). Carbon footprint assessment of a wood multi-residential building considering biogenic carbon, Journal of Cleaner Production, 404, 136834. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136834

Zhang, C., Zhao, X., Sacchi, R. & You, F. Trade-off between critical metal requirement and transportation decarbonization in automotive electrification. Nature Communications 14, 1616 (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37373-4