What can China learn from the UK's transition to a low-carbon power sector? A multi-level perspective

2022 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 106127
Author(s):  
Jiongjun Yang ◽  
Weirong Zhang ◽  
Defu Zhao ◽  
Changhong Zhao ◽  
Jiahai Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Multi Level

Decarbonised pathways for a low carbon EU28 power sector until 2050

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Simoes ◽  
Wouter Nijs ◽  
Pablo Ruiz ◽  
Alessandra Sgobbi ◽  
Christian Thiel
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
Power Sector

Immediate actions on coal phaseout enable a just low-carbon transition in China’s power sector

2022 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
pp. 118401
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Zhang ◽  
Xueqin Cui ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez ◽  
Daniel M Kammen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
Power Sector

Innovation for Sustainability in Aviation

2013 ◽  
pp. 885-902
Author(s):  
Hiroko Nakamura ◽  
Yuya Kajikawa ◽  
Shinji Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Alternative Fuels ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Level

In this chapter, the shared visions and the latest activities for sustainability in the aviation sector are presented and perspectives on the innovations that this sector should achieve are discussed. To do this, the latest experts’ talks are collected from four international meetings for aviation and the environment held around the world between September 2009 and May 2010, which invited experts and researchers from Japan, Europe, and North America. The expansion of networks between agents of the sector, which is considered to be essential for the success of innovation transition, is found in the latest projects for aviation sustainability. To smooth the transition of innovation from sector’s initiatives including radical change such as low-carbon alternative fuels, we emphasize the need for more discussion about new economic measurements. Finally, we discuss directions for future research, using multi-level perspectives for a transition management of aviation innovation for sustainability.

scholarly journals A Sketch of Bolivia’s Potential Low-Carbon Power System Configurations. The Case of Applying Carbon Taxation and Lowering Financing Costs

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Peña Balderrama ◽  
Thomas Alfstad ◽  
Constantinos Taliotis ◽  
Mohammad Hesamzadeh ◽  
Mark Howells
Keyword(s):  
Cost Optimization ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Abatement Cost ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Taxes ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Cost Curves ◽  
Financing Costs ◽  
Carbon Taxation ◽  
System Configurations

This paper considers hypothetical options for the transformation of the Bolivian power generation system to one that emits less carbon dioxide. Specifically, it evaluates the influence of the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) on marginal abatement cost curves (MACC) when applying carbon taxation to the power sector. The study is illustrated with a bottom-up least-cost optimization model. Projections of key parameters influence the shape of MACCs and the underlying technology configurations. These are reported. Results from our study (and the set of assumptions on which they are based) are country-specific. Nonetheless, the methodology can be replicated to other case studies to provide insights into the role carbon taxes and lowering finance costs might play in reducing emissions.

scholarly journals A Combined Multi-Level Perspective and Agent-Based Modeling in Low-Carbon Transition Analysis

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 5050
Author(s):  
Xifeng Wu ◽  
Sijia Zhao ◽  
Yue Shen ◽  
Hatef Madani ◽  
Yu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Description ◽  
Nonlinear Process ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transition Analysis ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Many

Low-carbon transitions are long-term complex processes that are driven by multiple factors. To provide a theoretical and practical framework of this process, we argue that the combination of the multi-level perspective (MLP) and agent-based modeling (ABM) enables us to reach a deeper and detailed analysis of low-carbon transitions. As an extensively applied theoretical form, MLP conceptualizes low-carbon transitions as a nonlinear process and allows a system to be analyzed and organized into multiple dimensions (landscape, regime, and niche). However, MLP cannot explain the many details of complex transitions, whereas ABM can estimate the influence of interacting behaviors in a complex system. Therefore, the main advantages of the combined approach for the analysis of low-carbon transition are verified: the MLP can contribute to the overall design of ABM, and ABM can provide a dynamic, continuous, and quantitative description of the MLP. To construct this combination framework, this paper offers a guiding principle that combines the two perspectives under a low-carbon transitional background to create an integrated strategy using three procedures: defining the common concepts, their interaction, and their combination. Through the proposed framework, the goal of this work was to reach a better understanding of social system evolution from the present high-carbon state to a low-carbon state under the pressure of ambitious climate goals, providing specific policy recommendations.

scholarly journals German energy transition (Energiewende) and what politicians can learn for environmental and climate policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Rechsteiner
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Price Policy ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Coal Gas ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Damage Costs

Abstract The German Energiewende (energy transition) started with price guarantees for avoidance activities and later turned to premiums and tenders. Dynamic efficiency was a core concept of this environmental policy. Out of multiple technologies wind and solar power—which were considered too expensive at the time—turned out to be cheaper than the use of oil, coal, gas or nuclear energy for power generation, even without considering externalities. The German minimum price policy opened doors in a competitive way, creating millions of new generators and increasing the number of market participants in the power sector. The fact that these new generators are distributed, non-synchronous and weather-dependent has caused contentious discussions and specific challenges. This paper discusses these aspects in detail and outlines its impacts. It also describes Swiss regulations that successfully launched avoidance technologies or services and asks why exactly Pigou's neoclassical economic approach to the internalization of damage costs (externalities) has rarely worked in policy reality, while sector-specific innovations based on small surcharges have been more successful. Based on the model of feed-in tariffs, a concept for the introduction of low-carbon air traffic is briefly outlined. Graphic Abstract

Assessment of Current Capabilities and Near-Term Availability of Hydrogen-Fired Gas Turbines Considering a Low-Carbon Future

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Noble ◽  
David Wu ◽  
Benjamin Emerson ◽  
Scott Sheppard ◽  
Tim Lieuwen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Low Emission ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Industry Investment

Abstract A confluence of technology development, policy support, and industry investment trends are accelerating the pace of Hydrogen (H2) technology demonstrations, increasing the likelihood of power sector impacts. In preparation for a largescale power sector shift toward decarbonization for a low-carbon future, several major power equipment manufacturers are developing gas turbines that can operate on a high H2-volume fuel. Many have H2 capable systems now that range from 5 to 100% H2. Units with 100% H2 capabilities are either using a diffusion burner or some version of a wet low emissions (WLE) burner. Most dry low emission/dry low NOx (DLE/DLN) technologies are currently limited to ~60% H2 or less. Therefore, research is currently underway to develop low NOx gas turbine combustion systems with improved Hydrogen capability. This paper provides an overview of the technical challenges of Hydrogen combustion and the probable technologies with which the manufacturers will respond.

scholarly journals Constructing the Embodied Carbon Flows and Emissions Landscape from the Perspective of Supply Chain

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingjian Zhao ◽  
Zuomin Wen ◽  
Anne Toppinen
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Carbon Sources ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Government

From the perspective of supply chain, benchmarking the embodied carbon flows and emissions landscape is to study the carbon footprint in supply chain production and process management. On the basis of the theory of a green supply chain, this paper conducted its research through the following steps. First, a multi-level supply chain model was proposed and established, and various sectors, production and management processes, and inputs and outputs of different resources were integrated into the supply chain network, and then divided into multiple levels. Second, a multi-level embodied carbon flow and emissions model was established through the Leontief Inverse. Third, based on the operation data of forestry-pulp and paper companies, the embodied carbon flows and emissions at all levels and sectors were estimated and analyzed. Finally, the dismantling and processing methods of complex carbon network structures were explored, the hot-spot carbon sources and paths were obtained, and the low-carbon innovation and development strategies were proposed. The research results show that: (1) Supply chain is a new idea and carrier to study the spatial and state changes of carbon, and also provides a platform for spatial landscape analysis of carbon; (2) The modeling and calculation of carbon flows and emissions offer a new solution of evaluating the environmental performance of companies with high pollution and emission such as forestry-pulp and paper companies, and provide the government effective technical support to implement environmental regulations and formulate carbon emission reduction policies.

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