{"title":"The aggregate effects of the structure of information in low-carbon transition policies: An application to France","authors":"Darius Corbier , Frédéric Gonand","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2023.100115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2023.100115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"4 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49856258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of demand response on CO2 Emissions in the Iberian electricity market – Combining economic and environmental perspectives","authors":"Joana Sousa , Isabel Soares","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The energy sector is the largest contributor for CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and therefore energy use is a key issue for climate change and sustainable development. The acceleration towards decarbonization of electricity supply through renewable technologies development is critical for reducing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. During peak-hours electricity consumption increase and peak units are needed to balance the demand and supply. Despite the technology updates done in many peak units, the most efficient fossil plants are not emission free. An approach to combine economic and environmental benefits through DR implementation was developed and applied to the Iberian Electricity Market data (MIBEL). It was developed a methodology that reduces emissions and replaces peak units with high prices by production with lower prices. The results indicate that generation portfolio and climatic conditions have a large impact on the offset emissions levels at each moment. At night polluting technologies have a greater share in the supply mix. Through DR implementation is possible to save emissions, reducing the need for peaking plants and simultaneously achieve an overall price decrease at peak hours, without compromising users’ comfort.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100093"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46098905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Future research directions to facilitate climate action and energy transitions","authors":"Udayan Singh , Samarth Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The scientific literature on climate actions, generally, and energy transitions, specifically, places a high premium on rigor and attention-to-detail when communicating their findings. While this is necessary, it may not always be most readily accessible to diverse audiences. This perspective describes the authors’ opinions on balancing future research directions and communication strategies to increase acceptance of widespread climate action among policymakers and the public. We suggest four approaches to do so: (1) use of co-benefits to appeal to diverse audiences, (2) reducing polarization in discussions, (3) use of more optimistic tones, and (4) finding the right balance between quantitative findings and qualitative narratives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100092"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42596352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dose assessment on the impact of accidents with Fukushima nuclear meltdown emission levels at the four nuclear power plants in Taiwan","authors":"Mei-Ling Tang, Ben-Jei Tsuang, Pei-Hsuan Kuo, Yi-Sheng Wang, Xin-Yu Liu, Kai-Chen Ku","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a heated debate for including nuclear power as an important source of energies for pursuing net-zero carbon emission in the coming years. An advanced Gaussian trajectory dispersion model is used to evaluate the consequent impacts of nuclear power plant (NPP) accidents with Fukushima nuclear meltdown emission levels occurring at all of the four power plants (NPP1–NPP4) in Taiwan. Our study indicates the exposure pathway emergency planning zone (EPZ) would be as far as 17, 25, 5 and 17 km downwind from NPP1 to NPP4, respectively, for an event occurring on 11 March 2011. Our study indicates that the percentages of the land in Taiwan becoming permanent evacuation zones (PEZs) are as high as 8%, 13%, 2%, and 11% for an event occurring randomly during a year from 11 March 2011 at NPP1 to NPP4, respectively. The mean percentages of the land for Taipei City becoming PEZs are 35%, 71%, 0% and 48%, respectively. The mean percentages of the land for Kaohsiung City becoming PEZ are 4%, 5%, 5% and 3%, respectively. The analysis shows that for pursuing net-zero carbon emission, the conventional nuclear energy might not be a good choice for Taiwan, since about 2–13% of the Island can be inhabited for more than 30 years while a Fukushima-level nuclear meltdown occurs. The methodology and the trajectory model used here can be applied for other countries for quantifying the EPZ and PEZ for each nuclear power plant to substitute a conventional straight-line-type plume model, such as MACCS2.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100090"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49390681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stock markets and carbon emissions nexus in Nigeria: Evidence from nonlinear ARDL and causality approaches","authors":"Anthony Enisan Akinlo , Olumuyiwa Apanisile","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the nexus between stock market development and carbon emissions for Nigeria based on annual data from 1981 to 2020. The study employs a multi-methodological approach, including the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approach, vector-error correction modeling, and Granger causality test. The nonlinear ARDL bounds test supports a long-run relationship between carbon emissions, energy intensity, population density, and gross domestic product per capita. Asides, the results show that perturbations in stock market development measured as stock traded have an asymmetric effect on carbon emissions in the short and long run. The results suggest that positive shocks in stock traded have an increasing insignificant effect on carbon emissions. In contrast, negative shocks in stock market development have a significant reducing impact on carbon emissions. Moreover, the results show that causality runs only from decreased stock traded to carbon emissions. Therefore, policy maker must strictly enforce all environmental regulations designed to control carbon emissions that might arise from increased manufacturing activities occasioned by improved stock market developments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100091"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47158911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum to ’Hybrid energy system optimization model: Electrification of Ontario's residential space and water heating case study’","authors":"P. Sanongboon, T. Pettigrew","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100089"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49856259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Has the market-oriented reform of 2015 affected the performance of China's power grid firms?","authors":"Bai-Chen Xie , Na Duan , Kang-Kang Ni , Tao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The efficiency analysis of incentive regulations on utilities is an important issue to investigate the impact of the market-oriented reform. This paper analyzes the influence of the 2015 reform on 30 provincial power grid firms in China during 2011–2018. We employ a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model combined with bootstrap estimation to measure the efficiency through statistical inference, from both static and </span>total factor productivity (TFP) perspectives. The results show that most provincial grid firms are difficult to achieve efficiency improvement by putting forward the reform in the short-term. However, the positive correlation between market transactions and efficiency indicates that the market-oriented reform improves efficiency significantly. Nevertheless, the gap between the studied DMUs and the efficient ones is the result of regional differences and the significant influence of weather heterogeneity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100081"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92172946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brinda Yarlagadda , Steven J. Smith , Bryan K. Mignone , Dharik Mallapragada , Cynthia A. Randles , Jon Sampedro
{"title":"Climate and air pollution implications of potential energy infrastructure and policy measures in India","authors":"Brinda Yarlagadda , Steven J. Smith , Bryan K. Mignone , Dharik Mallapragada , Cynthia A. Randles , Jon Sampedro","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2021.100067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.egycc.2021.100067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>India is a rapidly developing economy with interrelated air quality, sustainable development, and climate change mitigation goals. There are unique challenges to achieving each of these goals as well as potential tradeoffs among them. This study examines the implications of possible future energy, climate, and air pollution control policies and measures in India through 2050. We take a scenario approach using the GCAM global energy-climate-land model combined with the Hector simple climate model and the TM5-FASST air quality source-receptor model to examine energy, climate and air quality outcomes. Reducing use of traditional biomass in buildings can reduce primary carbonaceous particulate emissions well below 2015 levels. However, policies that are more ambitious than current plans would likely be required to reduce SO<sub>2</sub> and NO<sub>x</sub> emissions well below 2015 levels. Among single policy cases considered, pricing of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and expansion of natural gas infrastructure have the largest impacts on overall energy system changes relative to the reference scenario. Ambitious air pollution control and GHG policies lead to the largest reductions in air pollution concentrations and radiative forcing, respectively. However, ambitious air pollution control and GHG policies differ in the extent to which they support or impede other policy objectives. Forcing increases due to reduced aerosols from ambitious air pollution policies can be mitigated, at least in part, by applying air pollution control and GHG policies together.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100067"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666278721000441/pdfft?md5=f2e2c1e0e1564bd7644ec1b96271959a&pid=1-s2.0-S2666278721000441-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45771091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hasan Hüseyin Miraç Gül , Şenay Açıkgöz , Hakan Ercan , Bülent Akınoğlu
{"title":"Securing energy while mitigating climate change","authors":"Hasan Hüseyin Miraç Gül , Şenay Açıkgöz , Hakan Ercan , Bülent Akınoğlu","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100085","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mainstream energy policy emphasizes the exploitation of domestic sources to secure energy. Since readily available, many nations focus on fossil fuels, so they lack investment in the alternatives. The result is increasing atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide, and energy security is still an issue. This study analyzes the impact of different variables on securing energy and reducing carbon emissions and attains this aim by econometrics. Energy-related data for 47 countries have been compiled from the IEA webpage, WDI, and BP databases, covering the period between 1990 and 2017. The results indicate that electricity generation by solar and wind globally helps both securing energy and climate change mitigation as anticipated. The dataset confirms that coal- and gas-based power generation does not contribute to global energy security. The dataset does not cast any distinct role on energy efficiency in terms of energy intensity. Increasing energy intensity, i.e., decreasing energy efficiency releases more carbon as anticipated. However, increasing energy intensity, i.e., decreasing energy efficiency, contributes to the energy security of the countries with wind power in the energy mix. One interesting result is that having a large population promotes energy security, but increasing urban population brings risks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100085"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanwoong Kim , Haewon McJeon , Dawoon Jung , Hanju Lee , Candelaria Bergero , Jiyong Eom
{"title":"Integrated Assessment Modeling of Korea's 2050 Carbon Neutrality Technology Pathways","authors":"Hanwoong Kim , Haewon McJeon , Dawoon Jung , Hanju Lee , Candelaria Bergero , Jiyong Eom","doi":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100075","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This integrated assessment modeling research analyzes what Korea's 2050 carbon neutrality would require for the national energy system and the role of the power sector concerning the availability of critical mitigation technologies. Our scenario-based assessment shows that Korea's current policy falls short of what the nation's carbon-neutrality ambition would require. Across all technology scenarios examined in this study, an extensive and rapid energy system transition is imperative, requiring the large-scale deployment of renewables and carbon capture & storage (CCS) early on and negative emission technologies (NETs) by the mid-century. Importantly, the rapid decarbonization of the power sector, along with the rapid electrification of end-uses, seems to be a robust national decarbonization strategy. Furthermore, we contextualize our net-zero scenario results using policy costs, requirements for natural resources, and the expansion rate of zero-carbon technologies. We find that the availability of nuclear power lowers the required expansion rate of renewables and CCS, alleviating any stress on terrestrial and geological systems. By contrast, the limited availability of CCS without nuclear power necessarily demands a very high penetration of renewables and significantly high policy compliance costs, which would decrease the feasibility of achieving the carbon neutrality target.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72914,"journal":{"name":"Energy and climate change","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100075"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"102388088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}