scholarly journals Advancing Market Integration and Decarbonization: How to Ensure a Smooth Transition?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Markets ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Regional Institution ◽  
Future Energy System

The concept of connecting electricity markets, which started with the sole objective of maximizing economic gains, is now being increasingly expanded to fulfill other policy objectives, primarily to support the low-carbon future energy system. The importance of clearly articulating policies, designing innovative regulations, and the presence of a local/regional institution to facilitate this change cannot be overstated.

scholarly journals Achieving Climate Targets via the Circular Carbon Economy: The Case of Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Yousef M. Alshammari
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
Renewable Sources Of Energy ◽  
Climate Targets ◽  
Carbon Economy

Clean hydrocarbon technologies have a key role to play in achieving the circular carbon economy while meeting climate targets in many countries around the world. The aim of this work is to assess which technology, or combination of technologies, is the most cost-effective in achieving climate targets by 2030 leading to a quick and smooth transition to a low carbon energy system in Saudi Arabia and similar oil-based economies. We find that low carbon policy support by banning crude oil in power generation, leads to accelerated underground oil gasification, in the absence of carbon prices. We also find that setting a policy for carbon reduction targets leads to a more flexible energy system transition enabling more technologies in the mix with an increasing transition period. Our results also show that clean hydrocarbon technologies may be sufficient to achieve new climate targets, as shown by the stabilised emissions in scenario 3 by 2025, without the implementation of renewable sources of energy which most studies do not include. We propose that by investing in clean hydrocarbon technologies over the short term, the transition towards a low carbon economy will be accelerated while developing renewable sources of energy over the long term.

scholarly journals Stakeholders’ Interests in Developing an Energy Ecosystem for the Superblock—Case Hiedanranta

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomo Joensuu ◽  
Markku Norvasuo ◽  
Harry Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Legislative Reforms

Policy objectives aimed toward zero-energy buildings call for the utilization of building-integrated renewable energy and distributed energy resources (DER). To enhance the utilization of DER, previous literature proposed the concept of an integrated community energy system (ICES). This research suggested using superblocks (units of multiple urban blocks) to define geographical limits, social contexts, and possibly common administrations for ICESs along with other living- and sustainability-related activities in an urban context. Through interviews with key stakeholders and an analysis, this research investigates the applicability of the superblock-ICES as a way of reaching the low-carbon objectives in the Hiedanranta brownfield development project in the city of Tampere, Finland. This research confirms that the driving forces of community-based solutions are economic benefits, technical development, and objectives of sustainability, and reveals or confirms that social acceptability, missing planning practices, economic risk, and missing or hindering legislation are the main issues or barriers of superblock-ICESs. For a wider adoption of superblock-ICESs, this research suggests cross-disciplinary piloting, together with developing planning practices and simulation tools. In Finland, legislative reforms are needed to remove the barriers and clarify issues related to security, reliability, customer protection, and public interest in governing a locally and collectively owned energy system.

Electrification and the Future of Electricity Markets: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Energy System

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Jones ◽  
Ben Haley ◽  
Gabe Kwok ◽  
Jeremy Hargreaves ◽  
Jim Williams
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Markets ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Future ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Optimal approaches to manage power system decarbonation

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 1447-1452
Author(s):  
Vincent Mazauric ◽  
Ariane Millot ◽  
Claude Le Pape-Gardeux ◽  
Nadia Maïzi
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Power System ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Faraday’S Law ◽  
Optimal Description ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies

To overcome the negative environemental impact of the actual power system, an optimal description of quasi-static electromagnetics relying on a reversible interpretation of the Faraday’s law is given. Due to the overabundance of carbon-free energy sources, this description makes it possible to consider an evolution towards an energy system favoring low-carbon technologies. The management for changing is then explored through a simplified linear-programming problem and an analogy with phase transitions in physics is drawn.

Developing an Integrated Energy System Interface for Electricity-Hydrogen Hybrid Nuclear Operations

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-96
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Ulrich ◽  
Roger Lew ◽  
Ronald L. Boring ◽  
Torrey Mortenson ◽  
Jooyoung Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Electricity Markets ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Early Integration ◽  
Integrated Energy Systems

Nuclear power plants are looking towards integrated energy systems to address the challenges faced by increasing competition from renewable energy and cheap natural gas in wholesale electricity markets. Electricity-hydrogen hybrid operations is one potential technology being explored. As part of this investigation a human factors team was integrated into the overall engineering project to develop a human system interface (HSI) for a novel system to extract steam for a coupled hydrogen production process. This paper presents the process used to perform the nuclear specific human factors engineering required to develop the HSI for this novel and unprecedented system. Furthermore, the early integration of the human factors team and the meaningful improvements to the engineering of the system itself in addition to the successful development of the HSI for this particular application are described. Lastly, the HSI developed is presented to demonstrate the culmination of the process and disseminate a potential HSI design for electricity-hydrogen hybrid operations that may be useful for others exploring similar integrated energy systems concepts.

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