An energy system transformation: Framing research choices for the climate challenge

Huberty, Mark; Zysman, John

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2010.05.010

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“…The UNFCCC Paris agreement sets out the goal of limiting global average surface temperature rise to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels 1 . Consequently, the world is looking to clean, renewable energy solutions 2 : transforming the energy system 3 from being carbon intensive and inefficient 4 to deeply decarbonised 5 , highly efficient 4 and to a large extent renewable 5 . The power sector is leading the decarbonisation charge 6 and by 2050 low or zero carbon electricity could expand to become the dominant form of energy supply 7 .…”

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Designing low-carbon power systems for Great Britain in 2050 that are robust to the spatiotemporal and inter-annual variability of weather

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The design of cost effective power systems with high shares of variable renewable energy technologies (VREs) requires a modelling approach that simultaneously represents the whole energy system combined with the spatiotemporal and inter-annual variability of VREs. Here we soft-link a long term energy system model, that explores new energy systems configurations from years to decades, with a high spatial and temporal resolution power system model that captures VRE variability from hours to years. Applying this methodology to Great Britain for 2050, we find that VRE focused power system design is highly sensitive to the inter-annual variability of weather and that planning based on a single year can lead to operational inadequacy and failure to meet long term decarbonisation objectives. However, some insights do emerge that are relatively stable to weather year. Reinforcement of the transmission system consistently leads to a decrease in system costs while electricity storage and flexible generation, needed to integrate VREs into the system, are generally deployed close to demand centres.

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Designing low-carbon power systems for Great Britain in 2050 that are robust to the spatiotemporal and inter-annual variability of weather

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“…The challenges to innovation arising from peak oil may seem more amenable to market incentives, but earlier energy and materials transitions have all been driven by the addition of new resources, from charcoal to coal, from coal to petrol and nuclear, and so on. The energy system transformation of today is thus under a very different constraint than that discussed for earlier transformations (Huberty and Zysman 2010). We can agree with Mowery, Nelson, and Martin (2010) that the circumstances and challenges of climate change, and consequently the appropriate policy responses, are quite different from the space race of the Apollo mission, or the However, the other side of the coin to strategic political responses to these challenges as a source of variation, concerns the extent and nature of the lock-in, on a global scale, to the petrochemical technology platform (Unruh 2000).…”

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Capitalism: restless and unbounded? Some neo-Polanyian and Schumpeterian reflections

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“…To make grid connection possible for feeding back surplus PV electricity at times of high production, Dutch energy companies had to develop norms for the required quality of the PV-produced electricity and the return rates (van Mierlo, 2002). Technological developments across production, distribution, and energy use-such as a redesign of the grid for dynamic demand management, new forms of transportation power, and large-scale energy storage-are needed for decentralized renewable energy options (Huberty & Zysman, 2010). Unruh (2000) speaks of a carbon lock-in, a vicious cycle in which governments allow new generation capacity and grid expansion, thus increasing availability of cheap electricity that, in turn, encourages consumption and development of new applications and end-use technologies.…”

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Convergent and divergent learning in photovoltaic pilot projects and subsequent niche development

Mierlo

2012

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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A proposed strategy to facilitate the use and development of radical new sustainable technologies is the creation of niches. Learning in these niches and the social embedding of learning experiences can stimulate changes in existing sociotechnological regimes. Pilot projects in which new technologies are used may form part of these niches. This article describes the results of a Dutch research project involving photovoltaics on learning within pilot projects and subsequent actions of the participating parties. The central questions are whether and how internal processes, such as open and creative negotiations, foster learning and how such learning relates to subsequent niche developments. The study suggests that pilot projects could encourage both convergent and divergent learning, depending on whether participants' learning experiences and expectations of the new technology start to align. Although the two types of learning can coexist, they seem related to different process conditions. The implication of these findings is that the management of pilot projects to contribute to regime change involves strategic choices about stimulating either the opening or the closing of the novelty's interpretative flexibility.

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An energy system transformation: Framing research choices for the climate challenge

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Designing low-carbon power systems for Great Britain in 2050 that are robust to the spatiotemporal and inter-annual variability of weather

Designing low-carbon power systems for Great Britain in 2050 that are robust to the spatiotemporal and inter-annual variability of weather

Capitalism: restless and unbounded? Some neo-Polanyian and Schumpeterian reflections

Convergent and divergent learning in photovoltaic pilot projects and subsequent niche development

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