Fusion power in a future low carbon global electricity system

Cabal, Helena; Lechón, Yolanda; Bustreo, Chiara; Gracceva, Francesco; Biberacher, Markus; Ward, D.J.; Dongiovanni, Danilo Nicola; Grohnheit, Poul Erik

doi:10.1016/j.esr.2016.11.002

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“…At the national level, Liu et al (2014) answered the question of whether China can realize its carbon reduction target from the perspective of China's thermal power development. At the global level, Cabal et al (2017) analyzed the application of nuclear fusion technology, which contributes to carbon reduction, in global power systems. These studies show that carbon-emission reduction is closely related to electricity production, and the perspective of electricity generation is a crucial one for carbonemission reduction research.…”

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confidence: 99%

Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Carbon Reduction in China: An Electricity Generation Perspective

Zeng

Zhao

et al. 2021

Front. Energy Res.

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As the world faces great challenges from climate change, carbon reduction has become China’s basic national policy. However, as the main model for carbon reduction in China, the non-cooperative carbon reduction model (NCCRM) is a simple regulation mode, which is not beneficial for optimization of electricity generation capacity structure and cannot effectively motivate carbon reduction at the provincial level. Therefore, we propose an interprovincial cooperative carbon reduction model (CCRM) from the perspective of electricity generation, which provides a mechanism integrating two fundamental principles of efficiency and fairness. The CCRM consists of two parts: (1) an optimal model of carbon reduction with the object of minimizing the carbon emission of the cooperation union to determine the optimal annual electricity generation for each participating province and (2) a model that distributes the economic benefits of the cooperation among the provinces in the cooperation based on the Shapley value method. We applied the CCRM to the case of an interprovincial union of Shanghai, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Gansu in China. The results, based on the data from 2014 to 2017, show that cooperation can significantly reduce the carbon emission of the union by 425.78 × 108 kg, 11.06%; meanwhile, Shanghai, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Gansu can, respectively, get 2.79 × 108, 11.11 × 108, 4.07 × 108, and 3.19 × 108 CNY of extra benefits from carbon reduction. To test the impact of different parameter values on the results of the CCRM, a sensitivity analysis was conducted. Some policy recommendations are proposed to promote the implementation of the CCRM.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Carbon Reduction in China: An Electricity Generation Perspective

Zeng

Zhao

et al. 2021

Front. Energy Res.

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“…Coherent driver (e.g., GDP, Population, GDPPP) trajectories, taken from validated sources, such as the International Energy Outlook 2014 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration [29] are allocated to each demand category, such as in the TIMES Integrated Assessment Model (TIAM) [10] to drive demand over the model time horizon, and are modified according to the storyline/scenario in order to analyze the impact of different elasticities of demand growth on the energy system. Different ETM scenarios are considered in the present study, based on three storylines, which are characterized by a diverse set of socio-economic, political and environmental features [16], as reported in Table 9 and presented in Section 3.1.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Storyline A (corresponding to Paternalism 2.6 in [16]) is based on a strong environmental responsibility, where the composition of the road transport sector and, generally, of the overall energy system, has to adhere to restrictive environmental limits, defined according to the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fifth Assessment Report [29]. Each RCP is a greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration trajectory until the end of the century, assigning maximum yearly values to GHG emissions from human activities in order to reach different GHG concentration targets.…”

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“…However, despite the fact that the literature concerning the analysis of nuclear fusion penetration is still quite poor, some remarkable works have used energy models to address this investigation. Some of them have been carried out inside the EUROfusion WPSES itself, such as the already mentioned work by Mühlich and Hamacher [8], which provided a preliminary assessment of the potential role of transportation in the evolution of the energy system, or the study in [16] about the contribution of fusion in low-carbon global energy scenarios. The analysis in [17] focused on the role of nuclear energy in the global energy system until 2100, using the World-TIMES Model and characterizing fusion via a set of exogenous assumptions, generally following an approach that is very similar to the one adopted in ETM, but with a characterization of transport technologies mainly based on the (limited) awareness about the actual recent progresses in the field at the time of writing.…”

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Analysis of the Effects of Electrification of the Road Transport Sector on the Possible Penetration of Nuclear Fusion in the Long-Term European Energy Mix

Lerede

Bustreo²,

Gracceva

et al. 2020

Energies

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The European Roadmap towards the production of electricity from nuclear fusion foresees the potential availability of nuclear fusion power plants (NFPPs) in the second half of this century. The possible penetration of that technology, typically addressed by using the global energy system EUROFusion TIMES Model (ETM), will depend, among other aspects, on its costs compared to those of the other available technologies for electricity production, and on the future electricity demand. This paper focuses on the ongoing electrification process of the transport sector, with special attention devoted to road transport. A survey on the present and forthcoming technologies, as foreseen by several manufacturers and other models, and an international vehicle database are taken into account to develop the new road transport module, then implemented and harmonized inside ETM. Following three different storylines, the computed results are presented in terms of the evolution of the road transport demand in the next decades, fleet composition and CO 2 emissions. The ETM results are in line with many other studies. On one hand, they highlight, for the European road transport energy consumption pattern, the need for dramatic changes in the transport market, if the most ambitious environmental goals are to be pursued. On the other hand, the results also show that NFPP adoption on a commercial scale could be justified within the current projection of the investment costs, if the deep penetration of electricity in the road transport sector also occurs.

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“…The technical viability of fusion is still under assessment through the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) whose construction is ongoing. While ITER is being built, the conceptual design and engineering design of the first Demonstration power plant (DEMO) are current activities to be completed by 2030 (Cabal et al 2017).…”

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Performance of structural materials for the DEMO divertor

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I would like to thank all the people who contributed in some way to the work described in this thesis. First and foremost, I owe my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Prof. José Ygnacio Pastor. Without his guidance, enthusiasm, encouragement and continuous optimism, this thesis would hardly have been completed. And I would also like to extend my appreciation to Toñi, for her warmest support since my first day at the Department.

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Fusion power in a future low carbon global electricity system

Cited by 43 publications

References 5 publications

Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Carbon Reduction in China: An Electricity Generation Perspective

Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Carbon Reduction in China: An Electricity Generation Perspective

Analysis of the Effects of Electrification of the Road Transport Sector on the Possible Penetration of Nuclear Fusion in the Long-Term European Energy Mix

Performance of structural materials for the DEMO divertor

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