From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage

Lazkano, Itziar; Pelli, Martino

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2791509

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“…Soft and systemic policies have a smaller and less robust positive effect on innovation. Lazkano et al (2017) apply Aghion et al's (2016) empirical strategy to energy storage innovation, including its interaction with renewable and efficiency-improving fossil fuel innovation. Energy storage projects to be an important complement to intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.…”

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Environmental Policy and Innovation: A Decade of Research

Popp

2019

SSRN Journal

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Encouraging innovation is an important part of environmental policy. A large literature in environmental economics examines the links between environmental policy and innovation. This paper reviews recent literature on green innovation. I highlight major trends in the literature, including an increased number of cross-country studies and a focus on the effect of different policy instruments on innovation. I include a discussion of the justifications and evidence for technology-specific policy incentives and present evidence on the effectiveness of government R&D spending. My review concludes with a discussion of three promising areas for new research on environmental innovation.

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Section: General Advances On Innovation and Environmental Policymentioning

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Environmental Policy and Innovation: A Decade of Research

Popp

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…In recent decades, because of increasing energy consumption and pollution, renewable electricity (RE) has received a great deal of attention. 1 The generation of electrical energy from photovoltaics and wind turbines is affected by weather and environmental conditions, causing some fluctuations in electric utility and leading to serious challenges for RE devices. 2,3 Electrical energy storage systems have been introduced as a key solution in order to eliminate these fluctuations.…”

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Molecular dynamics simulation of amino acid ionic liquids near a graphene electrode: effects of alkyl side-chain length

Moghadam

Razmkhah

Mosavian

et al. 2016

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

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Electric double layer (EDL) supercapacitors, using ionic liquid electrolytes, have been receiving a great deal of attention in response to the growing demand for energy storage systems. In the present study, the nanoscopic structure of amino acid ionic liquids (AAILs) as biodegradable electrolytes near a neutral graphene surface was studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. In order to explore the influence of the anion type and structure, the effect of the alkyl side-chain length of amino acids on the EDL was investigated. The results for the AAILs, composed of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ([EMIM]) cations near alanine ([ALA]) and isoleucine ([ILE]) anions, were compared to a conventional electrolyte, [EMIM][PF]. A lower mobility of AAIL compared to [EMIM][PF], with diffusions as low as 10 m s, was observed. The structural results demonstrated a layered structure near the surface and most of the adsorbed imidazolium cation rings lay flat on the graphene surface. Both MD and quantum computations were performed to shed light on the charge behavior of AAIL electrolytes. As the current results demonstrate, an increase in the anion side-chain length leads to a decrease in both the number of adsorbed ions on the surface and the thickness of the first adsorbed layer. More impressively, it was observed that a low charge concentration in the EDL of AAILs is due to more side-side interactions. This remarkable feature could introduce AAILs as more efficient electrolyte materials than conventional [EMIM][PF].

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“…See Lazkano et al (2016) for an analysis of the role of electricity storage in the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources in electricity generation.…”

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Do Fossil-Fuel Taxes Promote Innovation in Renewable Electricity Generation?

Lazkano

Pham

2016

SSRN Journal

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We evaluate the role of a fossil fuel tax and research subsidy in directing innovation from fossil fuel toward renewable energy technologies in the electricity sector. Using a global firm-level electricity patent database from 1978 to 2011, we find that the impact of fossil fuel taxes on renewable energy innovation varies with the type of fossil fuel. Specifically, a tax on coal reduces innovation in both fossil fuel and renewable energy technologies while a tax on natural gas has no statistically significant impact on renewable energy innovation. The reason is that easily dispatchable energy sources like coal-fired power plants need to complement renewable energy technologies in the grid because renewables generate electricity intermittently. Our results suggest that a tax on natural gas, combined with research subsidies for renewable energy, may effectively shift innovation in the electricity sector towards renewable energy. In contrast, coal taxation or a carbon tax that increases coal prices has unintended negative consequences for renewable energy innovation.

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From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Environmental Policy and Innovation: A Decade of Research

Environmental Policy and Innovation: A Decade of Research

Molecular dynamics simulation of amino acid ionic liquids near a graphene electrode: effects of alkyl side-chain length

Do Fossil-Fuel Taxes Promote Innovation in Renewable Electricity Generation?

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