The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity

By James H Williams, A. DeBenedictis, R. Ghanadan, Amber Mahone, Jack Moore, W. R. Morrow, S. Price, Margaret S. Torn. Science, 2012

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Report of the high-level commission on carbon prices (2017, background): “The global scenarios that achieve zero net emissions and maintain the temperature rise below 2°C in a cost-effective way show four parallel changes in the global economy, which involve the transformation of capital-intensive systems with long-lived assets (IDDRI and UNSDSN 2014; IEA 2014; Krey et al”
Assessment of wind and solar power in global low-carbon energy scenarios: An introduction (2017, background): “electricity in final energy due to accelerated electrification of energy end-use (Bruckner et al., 2014; Clarke et al., 2014; Krey et al., 2014; Kriegler et al., 2014; Williams et al., 2012).”
When starting with the most expensive option makes sense: Optimal timing, cost and sectoral allocation of abatement investment (2018, background): “11 This is not entirely realistic, for instance abatement realized in the power sector may actually increase the potential and reduce the cost to implement abatement in other sectors thanks to electrification (Williams et al., 2012; Audoly et al., 2017).”
An innovation-focused roadmap for a sustainable global photovoltaic industry (2014, background): “We are interested in using the same set of PV patent data to analyze the cost reduction through innovation, and to understand the dynamics among innovation, manufacturing and market forces.”
Transport electrification: A key element for energy system transformation and climate stabilization (2014, background): “…et al. (2010) [European Union], and Yang et al. (2011) [California] each find that roughly 15 % of final energy in transport could come from electricity by 2050, Teske et al. (2012) [Global] and Williams et al. (2012) [California] show that upwards of 45–55 % of the sector could be electrified.”
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Preference and lifestyle heterogeneity among potential plug-in electric vehicle buyers (2015, background): “We focus on the case of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)—an emerging set of technologies that may play a key role in a societal transition toward deep greenhouse-house (GHG) emission reductions (Williams et al., 2012).”
Flexibility mechanisms and pathways to a highly renewable US electricity future (2016, background): “[63], which found that California's 2050 carbon targets cannot be achieved without aggressive energy efficiency and (among other measures) conversion of gasoline vehicles to smart-charging (flexible) PEVs; these measures were also found to significantly reduced the cost of a highly renewable Califor”