Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01740-w
Aldo Di Carlo
{"title":"Environmentally friendly solvents","authors":"Aldo Di Carlo","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01740-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-025-01740-w","url":null,"abstract":"The fabrication of perovskite photovoltaics often relies on hazardous solvents that limit their implementation in manufacturing. Now, researchers develop a green solvent system for fabrication of large-area perovskite solar modules using industrially viable and scalable deposition methods, which achieve high power conversion efficiencies.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 3","pages":"287-288"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143547045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01724-w
Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling, Jared J. Finnegan
{"title":"How central banks manage climate and energy transition risks","authors":"Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling, Jared J. Finnegan","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01724-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01724-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Central banks have begun to examine and manage climate risks, including both transition risks of moving from fossil fuels to clean energy and physical climate risks. Here we provide a systematic assessment of how and why central banks address climate risks on the basis of an original dataset of central banks across the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and Group of 20. We show that central banks vary substantially in the extent to which they re-risk fossil fuel investments and physical risks and de-risk clean energy investments. Our analysis finds that central bank climate risk management is not associated with a country’s economic exposure to transition risks, but instead with its climate politics. The results suggest that central banks may not be solely independent risk managers but also actors that respond to political demands. As such, central banks may reinforce national decarbonization policy, while not correcting for the lack thereof.</p>","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143518571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01725-9
Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling, Jared J. Finnegan
{"title":"How central banks address climate and transition risks","authors":"Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling, Jared J. Finnegan","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01725-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01725-9","url":null,"abstract":"Central bank management of climate risks is associated with climate politics, as opposed to a country’s economic exposure to transition risk, including stranded asset and clean energy investment risk. Central banks are not entirely autonomous actors that correct for the lack of national decarbonization policy—they rather complement existing national policies that aim to shift the economy from fossil fuels to clean energy.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143518569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01717-9
Olufolahan Osunmuyiwa, Margaret Odero, Alexandra Wall, Jackson Goode, Genevieve Flaspohler, Kwame Abrokwah, Joshua Adkins, Noah Klugman
{"title":"Mobilizing power quality and reliability measurements for electricity equity and justice in Africa","authors":"Olufolahan Osunmuyiwa, Margaret Odero, Alexandra Wall, Jackson Goode, Genevieve Flaspohler, Kwame Abrokwah, Joshua Adkins, Noah Klugman","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01717-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-025-01717-9","url":null,"abstract":"In sub-Saharan Africa, urban electricity inequities manifesting as poor power quality and reliability (PQR) are prevalent. Yet, granular PQR data and frameworks for assessing PQR inequities and guiding equitable electricity interventions remain sparse. To address this gap, we present a conceptual framework that leverages energy justice, capability and multidimensional poverty theories alongside concepts relating to power systems to quantify PQR inequities in sub-Saharan Africa. To demonstrate our framework and using 1 year’s worth of remotely sensed PQR data from Accra, Ghana, we assessed the distributive scale of PQR inequities, explored how multidimensional poverty exacerbates these inequities and examined the impact of PQR on households’ domestic capabilities. We found wider patterns of PQR inequities and a link between poor PQR and neighbourhoods with higher multidimensional poverty. We conclude that using remotely sensed data combined with justice and capability frameworks offers a powerful method for revealing PQR inequities and driving sustainable energy transitions. Poor power quality and reliability are prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Osunmuyiwa et al. find that areas with this issue in Accra overlap with those experiencing multidimensional poverty and have more unusable power during peak periods than others.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 3","pages":"395-403"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01717-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143518570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01720-0
Jung-Hui Kim, Nag-Young Kim, Zhengyu Ju, Young-Kuk Hong, Kyu-Dong Kang, Jung-Hyun Pang, Seok-Ju Lee, Seong-Seok Chae, Moon-Soo Park, Je-Young Kim, Guihua Yu, Sang-Young Lee
{"title":"Upscaling high-areal-capacity battery electrodes","authors":"Jung-Hui Kim, Nag-Young Kim, Zhengyu Ju, Young-Kuk Hong, Kyu-Dong Kang, Jung-Hyun Pang, Seok-Ju Lee, Seong-Seok Chae, Moon-Soo Park, Je-Young Kim, Guihua Yu, Sang-Young Lee","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01720-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-025-01720-0","url":null,"abstract":"Moving battery technology from the laboratory to large-scale production is a necessary step in achieving cost competitiveness for high-energy-density batteries. So far, academic research has focused on the active material of the electrode and little attention has been paid to cell-level design, hindering the realization of this goal. Therefore, upscaling high-areal-capacity electrode sheets is proposed as a practical way forward. Here we evaluate the impact of high-areal-capacity electrodes on cell energy densities, energy consumption during electrode fabrication and the cost efficiency of cell production. By examining the integration of scalable roll-to-roll electrode-manufacturing techniques (such as slurry casting and dry coating) with the materials chemistry of the electrode components, electrode structure design and cell performance, we aim to outline the areas of development for high-areal-capacity electrodes and provide a structured pathway for bridging the gap between laboratory innovations and industrial scale-up. Achieving industrial-scale production of high-energy-density batteries will require cost and efficiency challenges to be addressed. The authors explore the upscaling of high-areal-capacity electrodes, evaluating manufacturing techniques, electrode design and materials chemistry.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 3","pages":"295-307"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143495382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01719-7
Vivien Fisch-Romito, Marc Jaxa-Rozen, Xin Wen, Evelina Trutnevyte
{"title":"Multi-country evidence on societal factors to include in energy transition modelling","authors":"Vivien Fisch-Romito, Marc Jaxa-Rozen, Xin Wen, Evelina Trutnevyte","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01719-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01719-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Integrated assessment and energy system models are challenged to account for societal transformation dynamics, but empirical evidence is lacking on which factors to incorporate, how and to what extent this would improve the relevance of modelled pathways. Here we include six societal factors related to infrastructure dynamics, actors and decision-making, and social and institutional context into an open-source simulation model of the national power system transition. We apply this model in 31 European countries and, using hindcasting (1990–2019), quantify which societal factors improved the modelled pathways. We find that, if well-chosen and in most cases, incorporating societal factors can improve the hindcasting performance by up to 27% for modelled installed capacity of individual technologies. Public acceptance, investment risks and infrastructure lock<i>-</i>in contribute the most to model performance improvement. Our study paves the way to a systematic and objective selection of societal factors to be included in energy transition modelling.</p>","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143462380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01715-x
Daniel Navia Simon, Laura Diaz Anadon
{"title":"Faster deployment of renewables stabilizes electricity prices in Europe","authors":"Daniel Navia Simon, Laura Diaz Anadon","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01715-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-025-01715-x","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing solar photovoltaic and wind generation capacity beyond European 2030 targets could make electricity prices more stable, with reductions in sensitivity to fluctuations in the price of natural gas possibly outweighing the increasing influence of weather effects. Energy policies should account for the macroeconomic benefits of more stable energy prices as an important motivation for the deployment of renewables, in addition to their contribution to the mitigation of climate change.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 3","pages":"291-292"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01715-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143462381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01721-z
Rik van Heerden, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Vassilis Daioglou, Thomas Le Gallic, Luiz Bernardo Baptista, Alice Di Bella, Francesco Pietro Colelli, Johannes Emmerling, Panagiotis Fragkos, Robin Hasse, Johanna Hoppe, Paul Kishimoto, Florian Leblanc, Julien Lefèvre, Gunnar Luderer, Giacomo Marangoni, Alessio Mastrucci, Hazel Pettifor, Robert Pietzcker, Pedro Rochedo, Bas van Ruijven, Roberto Schaeffer, Charlie Wilson, Sonia Yeh, Eleftheria Zisarou, Detlef van Vuuren
{"title":"Demand-side policies can significantly reduce emissions from energy use in buildings and transport","authors":"Rik van Heerden, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Vassilis Daioglou, Thomas Le Gallic, Luiz Bernardo Baptista, Alice Di Bella, Francesco Pietro Colelli, Johannes Emmerling, Panagiotis Fragkos, Robin Hasse, Johanna Hoppe, Paul Kishimoto, Florian Leblanc, Julien Lefèvre, Gunnar Luderer, Giacomo Marangoni, Alessio Mastrucci, Hazel Pettifor, Robert Pietzcker, Pedro Rochedo, Bas van Ruijven, Roberto Schaeffer, Charlie Wilson, Sonia Yeh, Eleftheria Zisarou, Detlef van Vuuren","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01721-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-025-01721-z","url":null,"abstract":"Large emission reductions in buildings and transport are possible by integrating demand-side strategies to electrify energy use, improve technological efficiency, and reduce or shift patterns of activity. With enabling policies and infrastructures, final energy users can make significant contributions to climate goals, particularly through widespread deployment of heat pumps and electric vehicles.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 3","pages":"293-294"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01721-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143451879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}