a b s t r a c t
Nowadays the biggest challenge for most organizations is a real and substantial application of sustainability
through the measurement and comparability of results in order to satisfy the principles of sustainability
of all the stakeholders. Definitively, it is necessary to pursue sustainability through the
measurements of specific indicators and control the variables that influence the state of the economic,
social and environmental issues. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the development of a
comprehensive, yet practical and reliable tool for a systematic sustainability assessment, based on the Life
Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to support decision makers in complex
decision problems in the field of environmental sustainability. The results are applied to a novel compressed
air energy storage system proposed as a suitable technology for the energy storage in a small scale
stand-alone renewable energy power plant (photovoltaic power plant) that is designed to satisfy the
energy demand of a radio base station for mobile telecommunications. The outcome is a dynamic
analysis and iterative integrated sustainability assessment of corporate performance.