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Cheng AL, Fuchs ERH, Karplus VJ, Michalek JJ. Electric vehicle battery chemistry affects supply chain disruption vulnerabilities. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2143. [PMID: 38459029 PMCID: PMC10923860 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46418-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024] Open
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We examine the relationship between electric vehicle battery chemistry and supply chain disruption vulnerability for four critical minerals: lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. We compare the nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode chemistries by (1) mapping the supply chains for these four materials, (2) calculating a vulnerability index for each cathode chemistry for various focal countries and (3) using network flow optimization to bound uncertainties. World supply is currently vulnerable to disruptions in China for both chemistries: 80% [71% to 100%] of NMC cathodes and 92% [90% to 93%] of LFP cathodes include minerals that pass through China. NMC has additional risks due to concentrations of nickel, cobalt, and manganese in other countries. The combined vulnerability of multiple supply chain stages is substantially larger than at individual steps alone. Our results suggest that reducing risk requires addressing vulnerabilities across the entire battery supply chain.
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- Anthony L Cheng
- Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Feng Q, Niu B, Ren Y, Su S, Wang J, Shi H, Yang J, Han M. A 10-m national-scale map of ground-mounted photovoltaic power stations in China of 2020. Sci Data 2024; 11:198. [PMID: 38351164 PMCID: PMC10864270 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-02994-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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We provide a remote sensing derived dataset for large-scale ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) power stations in China of 2020, which has high spatial resolution of 10 meters. The dataset is based on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing platform via random forest classifier and active learning strategy. Specifically, ground samples are carefully collected across China via both field survey and visual interpretation. Afterwards, spectral and texture features are calculated from publicly available Sentinel-2 imagery. Meanwhile, topographic features consisting of slope and aspect that are sensitive to PV locations are also included, aiming to construct a multi-dimensional and discriminative feature space. Finally, the trained random forest model is adopted to predict PV power stations of China parallelly on GEE. Technical validation has been carefully performed across China which achieved a satisfactory accuracy over 89%. Above all, as the first publicly released 10-m national-scale distribution dataset of China's ground-mounted PV power stations, it can provide data references for relevant researchers in fields such as energy, land, remote sensing and environmental sciences.
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- Quanlong Feng
- College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
- Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom.
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Wu GC, Deshmukh R, Trainor A, Uppal A, Chowdhury AFMK, Baez C, Martin E, Higgins J, Mileva A, Ndhlukula K. Avoiding ecosystem and social impacts of hydropower, wind, and solar in Southern Africa's low-carbon electricity system. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1083. [PMID: 38316824 PMCID: PMC10844333 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45313-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024] Open
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The scale at which low-carbon electricity will need to be deployed to meet economic growth, electrification, and climate goals in Africa is unprecedented, yet the potential land use and freshwater impacts from this massive build-out of energy infrastructure is poorly understood. In this study, we characterize low-impact onshore wind, solar photovoltaics, and hydropower potential in Southern Africa and identify the cost-optimal mix of electricity generation technologies under different sets of socio-environmental land use and freshwater constraints and carbon targets. We find substantial wind and solar potential after applying land use protections, but about 40% of planned or proposed hydropower projects face socio-environmental conflicts. Applying land and freshwater protections results in more wind, solar, and battery capacity and less hydropower capacity compared to scenarios without protections. While a carbon target favors hydropower, the amount of cost-competitively selected hydropower is at most 45% of planned or proposed hydropower capacity in any scenario-and is only 25% under socio-environmental protections. Achieving both carbon targets and socio-environmental protections results in system cost increases of 3-6%. In the absence of land and freshwater protections, environmental and social impacts from new hydropower development could be significant.
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- Grace C Wu
- Environmental Studies, Bren Hall, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA.
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- Environmental Studies, Bren Hall, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA.
- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA.
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- Africa Program, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, 22203, USA
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- Department of Geography, Ellison Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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- Environmental Studies, Bren Hall, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
- Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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- Department of Geography, Ellison Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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- Center for Resilient Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, 22203, USA
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- Global Freshwater Team, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, 22203, USA
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- Blue Marble Analytics, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- SADC Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SACREEE), 11 Dr Agostinho Neto Road, Windhoek, Namibia
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Millstein D, Jeong S, Ancell A, Wiser R. A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models. Sci Data 2023; 10:883. [PMID: 38065988 PMCID: PMC10709642 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02804-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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In 2022, wind generation accounted for ~10% of total electricity generation in the United States. As wind energy accounts for a greater portion of total energy, understanding geographic and temporal variation in wind generation is key to many planning, operational, and research questions. However, in-situ observations of wind speed are expensive to make and rarely shared publicly. Meteorological models are commonly used to estimate wind speeds, but vary in quality and are often challenging to access and interpret. The Plant-Level US multi-model WIND and generation (PLUSWIND) data repository helps to address these challenges. PLUSWIND provides wind speeds and estimated generation on an hourly basis at almost all wind plants across the contiguous United States from 2018-2021. The repository contains wind speeds and generation based on three different meteorological models: ERA5, MERRA2, and HRRR. Data are publicly accessible in simple csv files. Modeled generation is compared to regional and plant records, which highlights model biases and errors and how they differ by model, across regions, and across time frames.
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- Dev Millstein
- Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
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- Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Pelz S, Chinichian N, Neyrand C, Blechinger P. Author Correction: Electricity supply quality and use among rural and peri-urban households and small firms in Nigeria. Sci Data 2023; 10:864. [PMID: 38049483 PMCID: PMC10695986 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02771-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/06/2023] Open
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- Setu Pelz
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
- Off-Grid Systems, Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), Berlin, Germany.
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- Off-Grid Systems, Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Off-Grid Systems, Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), Berlin, Germany
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Wollburg P, Hallegatte S, Mahler DG. Ending extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions. Nature 2023; 623:982-986. [PMID: 38030781 PMCID: PMC10686831 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06679-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Growing consumption is both necessary to end extreme poverty1and one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions2, creating a potential tension between alleviating poverty and limiting global warming. Most poverty reduction has historically occurred because of economic growth3-6, which means that reducing poverty entails increasing not only the consumption of people living in poverty but also the consumption of people with a higher income. Here we estimate the emissions associated with the economic growth needed to alleviate extreme poverty using the international poverty line of US $2.15 per day (ref. 7). Even with historical energy- and carbon-intensity patterns, the global emissions increase associated with alleviating extreme poverty is modest, at 2.37 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year or 4.9% of 2019 global emissions. Lower inequality, higher energy efficiency and decarbonization of energy can ease this tension further: assuming the best historical performance, the emissions for poverty alleviation in 2050 will be reduced by 90%. More ambitious poverty lines require more economic growth in more countries, which leads to notably higher emissions. The challenge to align the development and climate objectives of the world is not in reconciling extreme poverty alleviation with climate objectives but in providing sustainable middle-income standards of living.
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- Philip Wollburg
- The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
- Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
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Zhang B, Li Y, Zhang C, Hu C, Fu G, Cai X. Dual water-electricity cooperation improves economic benefits and water equality in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6228. [PMID: 37802987 PMCID: PMC10558469 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42009-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/08/2023] Open
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Transboundary river cooperation provides an effective pathway to maintain regional security and sustainable development; however, its implementation is a pressing and prominent concern due to lack of appropriate compensation measures and effective incentive strategies. Here we develop a dual water-electricity cooperation (DWEC) framework that combines water and electricity trading to meet the often-conflicting demands of participating countries. The results from the Lancang-Mekong River Basin reveal that substantial benefits in both economic and social aspects can be achieved through coupling regional water and electricity trades. Economic benefits can be obtained by expanding cooperation space and thereby greatly improving the willingness of countries to participate in basin-wide cooperation. Electricity trading plays a key role in loss compensation for water exporters, ensuring no loss for any party and maximizing basin-wide benefits. Furthermore, the DWEC improves regional water use equality, especially in water shortage periods when there is severe competition among water users. The proposed cooperation framework provides a viable way to implement cooperation in transboundary river basins.
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- Bingyao Zhang
- School of Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- School of Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
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- School of Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
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- China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Water System, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Civil and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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Huang H, Zhao J, Liu H, Ren S, Liu M, Liu H, An F, Guo Y, An H. Research on the crisis propagation in the global coal trade under the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Sci Rep 2023; 13:15954. [PMID: 37743369 PMCID: PMC10518322 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42643-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023] Open
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The outbreak of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict exacerbated the natural gas supply shortage in European countries. European countries restarted coal-fired power plants to maintain economic and social operations. The uneven distribution of coal resources in the world makes coal international trade inevitable. The intricate trade relations between trading countries have formed a coal trade network. When a country's coal exports are limited due to geopolitical factors, it will cause coal supply risks. The risk will spread to more countries along the trade network, eventually leading to the collapse of the trade network. This paper builds a crisis propagation model of the coal supply under the Russia-Ukraine conflict using the cascading failure model. The results showed that the Czech Republic, Ireland, Portugal, and Bulgaria become abnormal as the proportion of coal exports β increases. When the Russian Federation reduced its coal exports by 80% and countries maintained only 10% coal exports against crisis, 23 European countries were the worst. Iceland, Ireland, Turkey and other countries were spread by the indirect risk and became abnormal countries. The Czech Republic and Bulgaria were spread by multiple risk and became abnormal countries.
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- Hui Huang
- School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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Krapf S, Mayer K, Fischer M. Points for energy renovation (PointER): A point cloud dataset of a million buildings linked to energy features. Sci Data 2023; 10:639. [PMID: 37730863 PMCID: PMC10511427 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02544-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023] Open
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Rapid renovation of Europe's inefficient buildings is required to reduce climate change. However, evaluating buildings at scale is challenging because every building is unique. In current practice, the energy performance of buildings is assessed during on-site visits, which are slow, costly, and local. This paper presents a building point cloud dataset that promotes a data-driven, large-scale understanding of the 3D representation of buildings and their energy characteristics. We generate building point clouds by intersecting building footprints with geo-referenced LiDAR data and link them with attributes from UK's energy performance database via the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN). To mimic England's building stock's features well, we select one million buildings from a range of rural and urban regions, of which half a million are linked to energy characteristics. Building point clouds in new regions can be generated with our published open-source code. The dataset enables novel research in building energy modeling and can be easily expanded to other research fields by adding building features via the UPRN or geo-location.
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- Sebastian Krapf
- Institute of Automotive Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748, Garching b. München, Germany.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, 94305, Stanford, USA.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, 94305, Stanford, USA
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Shirizadeh B, Villavicencio M, Douguet S, Trüby J, Bou Issa C, Seck GS, D'herbemont V, Hache E, Malbec LM, Sabathier J, Venugopal M, Lagrange F, Saunier S, Straus J, Reigstad GA. The impact of methane leakage on the role of natural gas in the European energy transition. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5756. [PMID: 37717065 PMCID: PMC10505150 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41527-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/18/2023] Open
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Decarbonising energy systems is a prevalent topic in the current literature on climate change mitigation, but the additional climate burden caused by methane emissions along the natural gas value chain is rarely discussed at the system level. Considering a two-basket greenhouse gas neutrality objective (both CO2 and methane), we model cost-optimal European energy transition pathways towards 2050. Our analysis shows that adoption of best available methane abatement technologies can entail an 80% reduction in methane leakage, limiting the additional environmental burden to 8% of direct CO2 emissions (vs. 35% today). We show that, while renewable energy sources are key drivers of climate neutrality, the role of natural gas strongly depends on actions to abate both associated CO2 and methane emissions. Moreover, clean hydrogen (produced mainly from renewables) can replace natural gas in a substantial proportion of its end-uses, satisfying nearly a quarter of final energy demand in a climate-neutral Europe.
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- Behrang Shirizadeh
- Deloitte Economic Advisory, 6 Place de La Pyramide Tour Majunga Deloitte, 92800, Puteaux, France.
- CIRED, 45 bis avenue de La Belle Gabrielle, 94736, Nogent sur Marne Cedex, France.
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- Deloitte Economic Advisory, 6 Place de La Pyramide Tour Majunga Deloitte, 92800, Puteaux, France
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- Deloitte Economic Advisory, 6 Place de La Pyramide Tour Majunga Deloitte, 92800, Puteaux, France
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- Deloitte Economic Advisory, 6 Place de La Pyramide Tour Majunga Deloitte, 92800, Puteaux, France
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- Deloitte Economic Advisory, 6 Place de La Pyramide Tour Majunga Deloitte, 92800, Puteaux, France
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- IFP Energies Nouvelles, 1-4 Avenue Bois Preau, 92852, Rueil-Malmaison, France
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- IFP Energies Nouvelles, 1-4 Avenue Bois Preau, 92852, Rueil-Malmaison, France
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- IFP Energies Nouvelles, 1-4 Avenue Bois Preau, 92852, Rueil-Malmaison, France
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- IFP Energies Nouvelles, 1-4 Avenue Bois Preau, 92852, Rueil-Malmaison, France
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- IFP Energies Nouvelles, 1-4 Avenue Bois Preau, 92852, Rueil-Malmaison, France
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- Carbon Limits, C. J. Hambros plass 2, 0164, Oslo, Norway
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- SINTEF Energy Research, Sem Sælands Vei 11, 7034, Trondheim, Norway
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Achakulwisut P, Erickson P, Guivarch C, Schaeffer R, Brutschin E, Pye S. Global fossil fuel reduction pathways under different climate mitigation strategies and ambitions. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5425. [PMID: 37704643 PMCID: PMC10499994 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41105-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023] Open
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The mitigation scenarios database of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report is an important resource for informing policymaking on energy transitions. However, there is a large variety of models, scenario designs, and resulting outputs. Here we analyse the scenarios consistent with limiting warming to 2 °C or below regarding the speed, trajectory, and feasibility of different fossil fuel reduction pathways. In scenarios limiting warming to 1.5 °C with no or limited overshoot, global coal, oil, and natural gas supply (intended for all uses) decline on average by 95%, 62%, and 42%, respectively, from 2020 to 2050, but the long-term role of gas is highly variable. Higher-gas pathways are enabled by higher carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR), but are likely associated with inadequate model representation of regional CO2 storage capacity and technology adoption, diffusion, and path-dependencies. If CDR is constrained by limits derived from expert consensus, the respective modelled coal, oil, and gas reductions become 99%, 70%, and 84%. Our findings suggest the need to adopt unambiguous near- and long-term reduction benchmarks in coal, oil, and gas production and use alongside other climate mitigation targets.
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- Ploy Achakulwisut
- Stockholm Environment Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok, Thailand.
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- International Research Center on Environment and Development (CIRED), École des Pont, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
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- Centre for Energy and Environmental Economics (CENERGIA), COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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Tonelli D, Rosa L, Gabrielli P, Caldeira K, Parente A, Contino F. Global land and water limits to electrolytic hydrogen production using wind and solar resources. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5532. [PMID: 37684237 PMCID: PMC10491841 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41107-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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Proposals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 include scaling-up electrolytic hydrogen production, however, this poses technical, economic, and environmental challenges. One such challenge is for policymakers to ensure a sustainable future for the environment including freshwater and land resources while facilitating low-carbon hydrogen production using renewable wind and solar energy. We establish a country-by-country reference scenario for hydrogen demand in 2050 and compare it with land and water availability. Our analysis highlights countries that will be constrained by domestic natural resources to achieve electrolytic hydrogen self-sufficiency in a net-zero target. Depending on land allocation for the installation of solar panels or wind turbines, less than 50% of hydrogen demand in 2050 could be met through a local production without land or water scarcity. Our findings identify potential importers and exporters of hydrogen or, conversely, exporters or importers of industries that would rely on electrolytic hydrogen. The abundance of land and water resources in Southern and Central-East Africa, West Africa, South America, Canada, and Australia make these countries potential leaders in hydrogen export.
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- Davide Tonelli
- Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering, UCLouvain, 1348, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- Aero-Thermo-Mechanics Department, ULB, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Institute of Energy and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Breakthrough Energy, Kirkland, WA, 98033, USA
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- Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering, UCLouvain, 1348, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Formayer H, Nadeem I, Leidinger D, Maier P, Schöniger F, Suna D, Resch G, Totschnig G, Lehner F. SECURES-Met: A European meteorological data set suitable for electricity modelling applications. Sci Data 2023; 10:590. [PMID: 37679367 PMCID: PMC10484998 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02494-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
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The modelling of electricity production and demand requires highly specific and comprehensive meteorological data. One challenge is the high temporal frequency as electricity production and demand modelling typically is done with hourly data. On the other side the European electricity market is highly connected, so that a pure country-based modelling is not expedient and at least the whole European Union (EU) area has to be considered. Additionally, the spatial resolution of the data set must be able to represent the thermal conditions, which requires high spatial resolution at least in mountainous regions. All these requirements lead to huge data amounts for historic observations and even more for climate change projections for the whole 21st century. Thus, we have developed the aggregated European wide climate data set SECURES-Met that has a temporal resolution of one hour, covers the whole EU area and other selected European countries, has a reasonable size but considers the high spatial variability.
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- Herbert Formayer
- Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- International Water Management Institute, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Energy, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria
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- Energy Economics Group, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Center for Energy, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Energy, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Song Z, Chen F, Martinez-Ibañez M, Feng W, Forsyth M, Zhou Z, Armand M, Zhang H. A reflection on polymer electrolytes for solid-state lithium metal batteries. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4884. [PMID: 37573412 PMCID: PMC10423282 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40609-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/14/2023] Open
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Before the debut of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in the commodity market, solid-state lithium metal batteries (SSLMBs) were considered promising high-energy electrochemical energy storage systems before being almost abandoned in the late 1980s because of safety concerns. However, after three decades of development, LIB technologies are now approaching their energy content and safety limits imposed by the rocking chair chemistry. These aspects are prompting the revival of research activities in SSLMB technologies at both academic and industrial levels. In this perspective article, we present a personal reflection on solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs), spanning from early development to their implementation in SSLMBs, highlighting key milestones. In particular, we discuss the SPEs' characteristics taking into account the concept of coupled and decoupled SPEs proposed by C. Austen Angell in the early 1990s. Possible remedies to improve the physicochemical and electrochemical properties of SPEs are also examined. With this article, we also aim to highlight the missing blocks in building ideal SSLMBs and stimulate research towards innovative electrolyte materials for future rechargeable high-energy batteries.
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- Ziyu Song
- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road 1037, 430074, Wuhan, China
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- Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 01510, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road 1037, 430074, Wuhan, China
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- Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road 1037, 430074, Wuhan, China.
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 01510, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road 1037, 430074, Wuhan, China.
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Dagnachew AG, Choi SM, Falchetta G. Energy planning in Sub-Saharan African countries needs to explicitly consider productive uses of electricity. Sci Rep 2023; 13:13007. [PMID: 37563234 PMCID: PMC10415313 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40021-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023] Open
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Studies show the role of various electrification technologies in providing electricity access to households in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on electricity demand for end-use services such as lighting, cooking, heating, cooling and other appliance use. The demand for productive use of electricity, which is important to enhance income generation opportunities and labour productivity, is usually not considered. Using the IMAGE-TIMER integrated assessment model framework, we present a methodology to project the impact of productive activities on the electricity system of the region. We show that growing productive activities increase household electricity demand by half, which has important consequences for determining the cost-optimal electrification technologies. We argue that planning of electricity systems should accommodate this increase in electricity demand for productive uses. In addition, while productive uses of electricity have a positive impact on the financial viability of electrification systems, they also increase the electricity sector investment requirements considerably.
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- Anteneh G Dagnachew
- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands.
- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Venice, Italy
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Pelz S, Chinichian N, Neyrand C, Blechinger P. Electricity supply quality and use among rural and peri-urban households and small firms in Nigeria. Sci Data 2023; 10:273. [PMID: 37173320 PMCID: PMC10181988 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02185-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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We present a household and enterprise energy survey dataset collected within the framework of the PeopleSuN project in Nigeria in 2021. Across three Nigerian geopolitical zones, a total of 3,599 households and 1,122 small and medium-sized enterprises were surveyed. The sample is designed to be representative of rural and peri-urban grid-electrified regions of each zone. Our surveys collect data on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, energy access and supply quality, electrical appliance ownership and usage time, cooking solutions, energy related capabilities, and supply preferences. We encourage academic use of the data presented and suggest three avenues of further research: (1) modelling appliance ownership likelihoods, electricity consumption levels and energy service needs in un-electrified regions; (2) identifying supply-side and demand-side solutions to address high usage of diesel generators; (3) exploring broader issues of multi-dimensional energy access, access to decent living standards and climate vulnerability.
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- FKZ 03SF0606A Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology)
- FKZ 03SF0606A Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology)
- FKZ 03SF0606A Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology)
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- Setu Pelz
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
- Off-Grid Systems, Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), Berlin, Germany.
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- Off-Grid Systems, Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Off-Grid Systems, Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), Berlin, Germany
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Joshi S, Ó Gallachóir B, Glynn J. A deep learning architecture for energy service demand estimation in transport sector for Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Sci Rep 2023; 13:3522. [PMID: 36864057 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30555-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023] Open
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Meeting current global passenger and freight transport energy service demands accounts for 20% of annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and mitigating these emissions remains a considerable challenge for climate policy. Pursuant to this, energy service demands play a critical role in the energy systems and integrated assessment models but fail to get the attention they warrant. This study introduces a novel custom deep learning neural network architecture (called TrebuNet) that mimics the physical process of firing a trebuchet to model the nuanced dynamics inherent in energy service demand estimation. Here we show, how TrebuNet is designed, trained, and used to estimate transport energy service demand. We find that the TrebuNet architecture shows superior performance compared with traditional multivariate linear regression and state of the art methods like densely connected neural network, Recurrent Neural Network, and Gradient Boosted machine learning algorithms when evaluated for regional demand projection for all modes of transport demands at short, decadal, and medium-term time horizons. Finally, TrebuNet introduces a framework to project energy service demand for regions having multiple countries spanning different socio-economic development pathways which can be replicated for wider regression-based task for timeseries having non-uniform variance.
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Daneshvar M, Mohammadi-Ivatloo B, Zare K. An innovative transactive energy architecture for community microgrids in modern multi-carrier energy networks: a Chicago case study. Sci Rep 2023; 13:1529. [PMID: 36707686 PMCID: PMC9883243 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-28563-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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As the technology of multi-energy carbon-free systems is strikingly developed, renewable-based multi-vector energy integration has become a prevalent trend in the decarbonization procedure of multi-carrier energy networks (MCENs). This paper proposes a fair transactive energy model for structuring an innovative local multi-energy trading market to allow multi-carrier multi-microgrids (MCMGs) with 100% renewable energy sources (RESs) in Chicago for free energy exchange aiming to balance energy in the renewable-dominant environment. Indeed, the main goal of the proposed model is to facilitate the modernization of future MCENs that are targeted to be equipped with 100% RESs and require a holistic model engaged with innovative technologies for the realization. To this end, the transactive energy architecture is designed for techno-environmental-economic assessing hybrid MCMGs to increase their flexibility in unbroken energy serving, decreasing their dependency on the main grid, and improving their economic benefits by considering their contribution level in energy interactions. To effectively model uncertainties of MCENs with 100% RESs, the novel hybrid technique is proposed that considers various stochastic changes of uncertain parameters to achieve confident results. The results highlighted the capability of the proposed model in effectively utilizing fully produced clean energy as well as continuously multi-energy serving of MCMGs in the presence of 100% RESs. Moreover, MCMGs reached techno-environmental-economic benefits by operating under the proposed transactive energy-based model, in which the technical, environmental, and economic goals are respectively realized by considering all constraints of MCENs, producing 100% clean energy by RESs, and reducing the total energy cost from $1,274,742.55 in the based model to $1,159,235.89 in the proposed one.
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- Mohammadreza Daneshvar
- grid.412831.d0000 0001 1172 3536Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
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- grid.412831.d0000 0001 1172 3536Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran ,grid.12332.310000 0001 0533 3048Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Energy Systems, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
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- grid.412831.d0000 0001 1172 3536Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
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Peters R, Berlekamp J, Tockner K, Zarfl C. RePP Africa - a georeferenced and curated database on existing and proposed wind, solar, and hydropower plants. Sci Data 2023; 10:16. [PMID: 36609615 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01922-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Promoting a transition to low-carbon energy systems to mitigate climate change requires an optimization of renewable energy (RE) planning. However, curated data for the most promising RE technologies, hydro-, wind and solar power, are missing, which limits data-based decision-making support. Here, a spatially explicit database for existing and proposed renewable power plants is provided: The Renewable Power Plant database for Africa (RePP Africa) encompasses 1074 hydro-, 1128 solar, and 276 wind power plant records. For each power plant, geographic coordinates, country, construction status, and capacity (in megawatt) are reported. The number of RePP Africa records exceeds the respective values in other existing open-access databases and matches available cumulative capacity data reported by international energy organizations best with deviations <13% for hydro-, <23% for wind, and <32% for solar power plants. This contemporary database is the most harmonized open-accessible reference source on RE power plants across Africa for stakeholders from science, (non-)governmental organizations, consulting, and industry; providing a fundamental data basis for the development of an integrated sustainable RE mix.
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Wierling A, Schwanitz VJ, Zeiss JP, von Beck C, Paudler HA, Koren IK, Kraudzun T, Marcroft T, Müller L, Andreadakis Z, Candelise C, Dufner S, Getabecha M, Glaase G, Hubert W, Lupi V, Majidi S, Mohammadi S, Nosar NS, du Pont YR, Roots P, Rudek TJ, Sciullo A, Sehdev G, Ziaabadi M, Zoubin N. A Europe-wide inventory of citizen-led energy action with data from 29 countries and over 10000 initiatives. Sci Data 2023; 10:9. [PMID: 36599860 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01902-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Numerous case studies show that citizens engage in various ways in renewable and low carbon energy projects, thereby contributing to the sustainable energy transition. To date, however, a systematic and cross-country database on citizen-led initiatives and projects is lacking. By performing a major compilation and reviewing copious data sources from websites to official registries, we provide a Europe-wide inventory with over 10,000 initiatives and 16,000 production units in 29 countries, focusing on the past 20 years. Our data allow cross-country statistical analysis, supporting the elicitation of empirical insights capable of extending beyond the perspective of single case studies. Our data also align with ongoing efforts to implement two EU Directives that aim at strengthening the active role of citizens in the energy transition. While the focus of our data collection is on Europe, the data and methodology can contribute to the global analysis of citizen-led energy action.
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Svobodova K, Owen JR, Kemp D, Moudrý V, Lèbre É, Stringer M, Sovacool BK. Decarbonization, population disruption and resource inventories in the global energy transition. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7674. [PMID: 36522340 PMCID: PMC9755273 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35391-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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We develop a novel approach to analysing decarbonisation strategies by linking global resource inventories with demographic systems. Our 'mine-town systems' approach establishes an empirical basis for examining the spatial extent of the transition and demographic effects of changing energy systems. The research highlights an urgent need for targeted macro-level planning as global markets see a decline in thermal coal and a ramp up of other mining commodities. Our findings suggest that ramping up energy transition metals (ETM) could be more disruptive to demographic systems than ramping down coal. The data shows asymmetry in the distribution of risks: mine-town systems within the United States are most sensitive to coal phase-out, while systems in Australia and Canada are most sensitive to ETM phase-in. A complete phase-out of coal could disrupt demographic systems with a minimum of 33.5 million people, and another 115.7 million people if all available ETM projects enter production.
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- Kamila Svobodova
- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia ,grid.7450.60000 0001 2364 4210Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany ,grid.15866.3c0000 0001 2238 631XFaculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha—Suchdol, 165 00 Czech Republic
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- grid.412219.d0000 0001 2284 638XCentre for Development Support, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 9300 South Africa
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- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia
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- grid.15866.3c0000 0001 2238 631XFaculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha—Suchdol, 165 00 Czech Republic
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- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia
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- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia
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- grid.12082.390000 0004 1936 7590Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School, Brighton, BN1 9SL UK ,grid.189504.10000 0004 1936 7558Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA USA ,grid.7048.b0000 0001 1956 2722Center for Energy Technologies, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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This article introduces a dataset containing electricity consumption records of residential households in Uruguay (mostly in Montevideo). The dataset is conceived to analyze customer behavior and detect patterns of energy consumption that can help to improve the service. The dataset is conformed by three subsets that cover total household consumption, electric water heater consumption, and by-appliance electricity consumption, with sample intervals from one to fifteen minutes. The datetime ranges of the recorded consumptions vary depending on the subset, from some weeks long to some years long. The data was collected by the Uruguayan electricity company (UTE) and studied by Universidad de la República. The presented dataset is a valuable input for researchers in the study of energy consumption patterns, energy disaggregation, the design of energy billing plans, among other relevant issues related to the intelligent utilization of energy in modern smart cities.
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- Juan Chavat
- Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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This paper describes development of a data acquisition system used to capture a range of occupancy related modalities from single-family residences, along with the dataset that was generated. The publicly available dataset includes: grayscale images at 32-by-32 pixels, captured every second; audio files, which have undergone processing to remove personally identifiable information; indoor environmental readings, captured every ten seconds; and ground truth binary occupancy status. The data acquisition system, coined the mobile human presence detection (HPDmobile) system, was deployed in six homes for a minimum duration of one month each, and captured all modalities from at least four different locations concurrently inside each home. The environmental modalities are available as captured, but to preserve the privacy and identity of the occupants, images were downsized and audio files went through a series of processing steps, as described in this paper. This dataset adds to a very small body of existing data, with applications to energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality.
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- Margarite Jacoby
- University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, 80309-0428, United States.
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- Iowa State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ames, 50011, United States
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, 80309-0428, United States
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, 80401, United States
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Boulder, 80309, United States
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- Iowa State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ames, 50011, United States
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Chen X, Fan Y, Wu L, Zhang L, Guan D, Ma C, Li N. Ultra-selective molecular-sieving gas separation membranes enabled by multi-covalent-crosslinking of microporous polymer blends. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6140. [PMID: 34686671 PMCID: PMC8536662 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26379-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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High-performance membranes exceeding the conventional permeability-selectivity upper bound are attractive for advanced gas separations. In the context microporous polymers have gained increasing attention owing to their exceptional permeability, which, however, demonstrate a moderate selectivity unfavorable for separating similarly sized gas mixtures. Here we report an approach to designing polymeric molecular sieve membranes via multi-covalent-crosslinking of blended bromomethyl polymer of intrinsic microporosity and Tröger's base, enabling simultaneously high permeability and selectivity. Ultra-selective gas separation is achieved via adjusting reaction temperature, reaction time and the oxygen concentration with occurrences of polymer chain scission, rearrangement and thermal oxidative crosslinking reaction. Upon a thermal treatment at 300 °C for 5 h, membranes exhibit an O2/N2, CO2/CH4 and H2/CH4 selectivity as high as 11.1, 154.5 and 813.6, respectively, transcending the state-of-art upper bounds. The design strategy represents a generalizable approach to creating molecular-sieving polymer membranes with enormous potentials for high-performance separation processes.
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- Xiuling Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Radiation Chemistry and Functional Materials, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning, 437100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemical Engineering and Environment, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing, 102249, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemical Engineering and Environment, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing, 102249, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemical Engineering and Environment, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing, 102249, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Research and Development Center of Membrane Science and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, 116024, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, China.
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Joshi S, Mittal S, Holloway P, Shukla PR, Ó Gallachóir B, Glynn J. High resolution global spatiotemporal assessment of rooftop solar photovoltaics potential for renewable electricity generation. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5738. [PMID: 34611151 PMCID: PMC8492708 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25720-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Rooftop solar photovoltaics currently account for 40% of the global solar photovoltaics installed capacity and one-fourth of the total renewable capacity additions in 2018. Yet, only limited information is available on its global potential and associated costs at a high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we present a high-resolution global assessment of rooftop solar photovoltaics potential using big data, machine learning and geospatial analysis. We analyse 130 million km2 of global land surface area to demarcate 0.2 million km2 of rooftop area, which together represent 27 PWh yr-1 of electricity generation potential for costs between 40-280 $ MWh-1. Out of this, 10 PWh yr-1 can be realised below 100 $ MWh-1. The global potential is predominantly spread between Asia (47%), North America (20%) and Europe (13%). The cost of attaining the potential is lowest in India (66 $ MWh-1) and China (68 $ MWh-1), with USA (238 $ MWh-1) and UK (251 $ MWh-1) representing some of the costliest countries.
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- Siddharth Joshi
- SFI MaREI Centre for Energy Climate and Marine, Cork, Ireland.
- Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
- School of Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
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- Grantham Institute-Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Department of Geography, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- SFI MaREI Centre for Energy Climate and Marine, Cork, Ireland
- Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- School of Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- SFI MaREI Centre for Energy Climate and Marine, Cork, Ireland
- Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- School of Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, USA
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Real-world domestic electricity demand datasets are the key enabler for developing and evaluating machine learning algorithms that facilitate the analysis of demand attribution and usage behavior. Breaking down the electricity demand of domestic households is seen as the key technology for intelligent smart-grid management systems that seek an equilibrium of electricity supply and demand. For the purpose of comparable research, we publish DEDDIAG, a domestic electricity demand dataset of individual appliances in Germany. The dataset contains recordings of 15 homes over a period of up to 3.5 years, wherein total 50 appliances have been recorded at a frequency of 1 Hz. Recorded appliances are of significance for load-shifting purposes such as dishwashers, washing machines and refrigerators. One home also includes three-phase mains readings that can be used for disaggregation tasks. Additionally, DEDDIAG contains manual ground truth event annotations for 14 appliances, that provide precise start and stop timestamps. Such annotations have not been published for any long-term electricity dataset we are aware of.
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- Marc Wenninger
- Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences, Dep. of Computer Science, 83024, Rosenheim, Germany.
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- Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences, Dep. of Computer Science, 83024, Rosenheim, Germany
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Ryter J, Fu X, Bhuwalka K, Roth R, Olivetti EA. Emission impacts of China's solid waste import ban and COVID-19 in the copper supply chain. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3753. [PMID: 34145227 PMCID: PMC8213787 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23874-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of supply chain disruptions and large-scale economic crises, also prompting environmentally protective local policies. Here we use econometric time series analysis, inventory-driven price formation, dynamic material flow analysis, and life cycle assessment to model each copper supply chain actor's response to China's solid waste import ban and the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that the economic changes associated with China's solid waste import ban increase primary refining within China, offsetting the environmental benefits of decreased copper scrap refining and generating a cumulative increase in CO2-equivalent emissions of up to 13 Mt by 2040. Increasing China's refined copper imports reverses this trend, decreasing CO2e emissions in China (up to 180 Mt by 2040) and globally (up to 20 Mt). We test sensitivity to supply chain disruptions using GDP, mining, and refining shocks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, showing the results translate onto disruption effects.
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- John Ryter
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Materials Systems Laboratory, Materials Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Materials Systems Laboratory, Materials Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Priesmann J, Nolting L, Kockel C, Praktiknjo A. Time series of useful energy consumption patterns for energy system modeling. Sci Data 2021; 8:148. [PMID: 34059689 PMCID: PMC8166825 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00907-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The analysis of energy scenarios for future energy systems requires appropriate data. However, while more or less detailed data on energy production is often available, appropriate data on energy consumption is often scarce. In our JERICHO-E-usage dataset, we provide comprehensive data on useful energy consumption patterns for heat, cold, mechanical energy, information and communication, and light in high spatial and temporal resolution. Furthermore, we distinguish between residential, industrial, commerce, and mobility consumers. For our dataset, we aggregate bottom-up data and disaggregate top-down data both to the NUTS2 level. The NUTS2 level serves as an interface to validate our combined method approach and the calculations. We combine a multitude of data sources such as weather time series, standard load profiles, census data, movement data, and employment figures to increase the scope, validity, and reproducibility for energy system modeling. The focus of our JERICHO-E-usage dataset on useful energy consumption might be of particular interest to researchers who analyze energy scenarios where renewable electricity is largely substituted for fossil fuel (sector coupling).
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- Jan Priesmann
- RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior (FCN), Chair for Energy System Economics (FCN-ESE), Mathieustr. 10, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior (FCN), Chair for Energy System Economics (FCN-ESE), Mathieustr. 10, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior (FCN), Chair for Energy System Economics (FCN-ESE), Mathieustr. 10, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior (FCN), Chair for Energy System Economics (FCN-ESE), Mathieustr. 10, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
- JARA-ENERGY, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
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Meinrenken CJ, Rauschkolb N, Abrol S, Chakrabarty T, Decalf VC, Hidey C, McKeown K, Mehmani A, Modi V, Culligan PJ. MFRED, 10 second interval real and reactive power for groups of 390 US apartments of varying size and vintage. Sci Data 2020; 7:375. [PMID: 33168826 PMCID: PMC7652872 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-00721-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Building electricity is a major component of global energy use and its environmental impacts. Detailed data on residential electricity use have many interrelated research applications, from energy conservation to non-intrusive load monitoring, energy storage, integration of renewables, and electric vs. fossil-based heating. The dataset presented here, Multifamily Residential Electricity Dataset (MFRED), contains the electricity use of 390 apartments, ranging from studios to four-bedroom units. All apartments are located in the Northeastern United States (IECC-climate-zone 4 A), but differ in their heating/cooling system and construction year (early to late 20th century). To adhere to privacy guidelines, data were averaged across 15 apartments each, based on annual electricity use. MFRED includes real and reactive power, at 10-second resolution, for January to December 2019 (246 million data points). The annual average real power per apartment is 343 W (3.27 W/m2 of floor area), with strong variation between seasons and apartment size. Considering its large number of apartments, high time resolution, real and reactive power, and 12-month duration, MFRED is currently unique for the multifamily-sector.
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- Christoph J Meinrenken
- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA.
- Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Civil Engineering and Eng. Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, USA
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Ruggles TH, Farnham DJ, Tong D, Caldeira K. Developing reliable hourly electricity demand data through screening and imputation. Sci Data 2020; 7:155. [PMID: 32457368 PMCID: PMC7250876 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0483-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Electricity usage (demand) data are used by utilities, governments, and academics to model electric grids for a variety of planning (e.g., capacity expansion and system operation) purposes. The U.S. Energy Information Administration collects hourly demand data from all balancing authorities (BAs) in the contiguous United States. As of September 2019, we find 2.2% of the demand data in their database are missing. Additionally, 0.5% of reported quantities are either negative values or are otherwise identified as outliers. With the goal of attaining non-missing, continuous, and physically plausible demand data to facilitate analysis, we developed a screening process to identify anomalous values. We then applied a Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) technique to impute replacements for missing and anomalous values. We conduct cross-validation on the MICE technique by marking subsets of plausible data as missing, and using the remaining data to predict this "missing" data. The mean absolute percentage error of imputed values is 3.5% across all BAs. The cleaned data are published and available open access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3690240.
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- University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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- Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States
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Limited data on global power infrastructure makes it difficult to respond to challenges in electricity access and climate change. Although high-voltage data on transmission networks are often available, medium- and low-voltage data are often non-existent or unavailable. This presents a challenge for practitioners working on the electricity access agenda, power sector resilience or climate change adaptation. Using state-of-the-art algorithms in geospatial data analysis, we create a first composite map of the global power system with an open license. We find that 97% of the global population lives within 10 km of a MV line, but with large variations between regions and income levels. We show an accuracy of 75% across our validation set of 14 countries, and we demonstrate the value of these data at both a national and regional level. The results from this study pave the way for improved efforts in electricity modelling and planning and are an important step in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals.
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- C Arderne
- World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., USA.
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- Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., USA
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- Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Climate change cannot be addressed without improving the energy efficiency of the buildings in which we live and work. The papers in this collection describe and release a series of datasets that help us understand how occupants influence and experience building energy use, both to aid future research and policy-development, and to spark wider data sharing in this important area.
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- TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna), Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Vienna, Austria.
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Shin C, Lee E, Han J, Yim J, Rhee W, Lee H. The ENERTALK dataset, 15 Hz electricity consumption data from 22 houses in Korea. Sci Data 2019; 6:193. [PMID: 31594953 PMCID: PMC6783544 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0212-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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AMI has been gradually replacing conventional meters because newer models can acquire more informative energy consumption data. The additional information has enabled significant advances in many fields, including energy disaggregation, energy consumption pattern analysis and prediction, demand response, and user segmentation. However, the quality of AMI data varies significantly across publicly available datasets, and low sampling rates and numbers of houses monitored seriously limit practical analyses. To address these challenges, we herein present the ENERTALK dataset, which contains both aggregate and per-appliance measurements sampled at 15 Hz from 22 houses. Among the publicly available datasets with both aggregate and per-appliance measurements, 15 Hz was the highest sampling rate. The number of houses (22) was the second-largest where the largest one had a sampling rate of 1 Hz. The ENERTALK dataset is also the first Korean open dataset on residential electricity consumption.
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- Department of Transdisciplinary Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Transdisciplinary Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Transdisciplinary Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
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Mao N. Investigating the Heteronjunction between ZnO/Fe 2O 3 and g-C 3N 4 for an Enhanced Photocatalytic H 2 production under visible-light irradiation. Sci Rep 2019; 9:12383. [PMID: 31455882 PMCID: PMC6712215 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48730-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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A series of ZnO/Fe2O3/g-C3N4 photocatalysts were synthetized by impregnation of g-C3N4 with Zn(NO3)2·6H2O, and Fe(NO3)2·9H2O followed by calcination. The morphology, chemical composition, and structure of the resulted materials were carefully analyzed by various characterization techniques. The photocatalytic performance of ZnO/Fe2O3/g-C3N4 composites was evaluated based on the H2 evolution from water splitting reaction. The results showed that the ZnO/Fe2O3/g-C3N4 composite can effectively produce more H2 than pure g-C3N4 when irradiated under visible-light. H2 production rate over 3-ZnO/Fe2O3/g-C3N4 composite was of 25 μmol·h-1, which is 4 times higher than that obtained in the presence of pure g-C3N4, clearly showing a significant improvement of the photocatalytic activity of the prepared nanocomposite. This result was attributed to the formation of a heterojunction between g-C3N4 and ZnO/Fe2O3, which delayed the recombination of holes-electrons pairs and resulted in a remarkable increase in photocatalytic performance.
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- Na Mao
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Advanced Energy Devices, Key Laboratory for Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710062, P.R. China.
- College of Chemistry and Materials, Weinan Normal University, Weinan, Shaanxi, 714099, P.R. China.
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Microgrids comprising renewable energy technologies are often modelled and optimised from a theoretical point of view. Verification of theoretical systems with data of actually implemented systems in the field rarely occurs in an open manner, especially on the intermediate scale of research buildings. To enable modelling of the actual microgrid performance of a research environment, we present a multiyear dataset of a microgrid with solar arrays and a battery. The main energy datasets comprise data per second supplemented by hourly solar irradiation data. These may be combined with data concerning the hourly electricity prices from the main grid and the low-electricity-price periods of national holidays. The level of detail of the data per second in combination with the hourly data in these datasets allows for a comparison to the efficiency and weather-parameter correlation of other renewable energy technologies, as well as forecasting future energy generation and consumption.
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- Karina Vink
- Technology Integration Unit (TIU), Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- Technology Integration Unit (TIU), Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- Technology Integration Unit (TIU), Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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A new paradigm of mitochondrial function in networks is emerging which includes, without undermining, the glorious and still useful paradigm of the isolated mitochondrion. The mitochondrial network paradigm introduces new concepts, tools, and analytical techniques. Among them is that mitochondrial function in networks exhibits interdependence and multiplicative effects based on synchronization mechanisms, which involve communication between mitochondrial neighbors. The collective dynamics of these networks become advantageous for coordinating function spanning from the cell, to the tissue, and the organ. However, under severely stressful conditions the network behavior of mitochondria may become life threatening.
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- Miguel A Aon
- Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Cardiobiology Baltimore, MD, USA.
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