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Andreas Goldthau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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rethinking the governance of Energy Infrastructure scale decentralization and polycentrism
Energy research and social science, 2014Co-Authors: Andreas GoldthauAbstract:Abstract Providing societies with reliable Energy services, fighting Energy poverty and mitigating climate change entail a crucial Infrastructure component. Both the Energy access and the low carbon challenge require more decentralized Energy solutions and a change in the Energy Infrastructure paradigm. Yet, physical Energy Infrastructure co-evolves with socio-economic institutions, actors and social norms. This may produce inertia against change. The Energy challenge also requires solutions at multiple scales and may entail elements of common pool resource problems. Therefore, the governance of Energy Infrastructure needs to be polycentric. This allows for contextualization, experimentation and innovation. The article concludes by sketching routes of further research into the Energy Infrastructure governance nexus in social science research.
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Rethinking the governance of Energy Infrastructure: Scale, decentralization and polycentrism
Energy Research and Social Science, 2014Co-Authors: Andreas GoldthauAbstract:Providing societies with reliable Energy services, fighting Energy poverty and mitigating climate change entail a crucial Infrastructure component. Both the Energy access and the low carbon challenge require more decentralized Energy solutions and a change in the Energy Infrastructure paradigm. Yet, physical Energy Infrastructure co-evolves with socio-economic institutions, actors and social norms. This may produce inertia against change. The Energy challenge also requires solutions at multiple scales and may entail elements of common pool resource problems. Therefore, the governance of Energy Infrastructure needs to be polycentric. This allows for contextualization, experimentation and innovation. The article concludes by sketching routes of further research into the Energy Infrastructure governance nexus in social science research. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Steven J Davis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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committed emissions from existing Energy Infrastructure jeopardize 1 5 c climate target
Nature, 2019Co-Authors: Dan Tong, Qiang Zhang, Yixuan Zheng, Ken Caldeira, Christine Shearer, Chaopeng Hong, Steven J DavisAbstract:Net anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) must approach zero by mid-century (2050) in order to stabilize the global mean temperature at the level targeted by international efforts1-5. Yet continued expansion of fossil-fuel-burning Energy Infrastructure implies already 'committed' future CO2 emissions6-13. Here we use detailed datasets of existing fossil-fuel Energy Infrastructure in 2018 to estimate regional and sectoral patterns of committed CO2 emissions, the sensitivity of such emissions to assumed operating lifetimes and schedules, and the economic value of the associated Infrastructure. We estimate that, if operated as historically, existing Infrastructure will cumulatively emit about 658 gigatonnes of CO2 (with a range of 226 to 1,479 gigatonnes CO2, depending on the lifetimes and utilization rates assumed). More than half of these emissions are predicted to come from the electricity sector; Infrastructure in China, the USA and the 28 member states of the European Union represents approximately 41 per cent, 9 per cent and 7 per cent of the total, respectively. If built, proposed power plants (planned, permitted or under construction) would emit roughly an extra 188 (range 37-427) gigatonnes CO2. Committed emissions from existing and proposed Energy Infrastructure (about 846 gigatonnes CO2) thus represent more than the entire carbon budget that remains if mean warming is to be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C) with a probability of 66 to 50 per cent (420-580 gigatonnes CO2)5, and perhaps two-thirds of the remaining carbon budget if mean warming is to be limited to less than 2 °C (1,170-1,500 gigatonnes CO2)5. The remaining carbon budget estimates are varied and nuanced14,15, and depend on the climate target and the availability of large-scale negative emissions16. Nevertheless, our estimates suggest that little or no new CO2-emitting Infrastructure can be commissioned, and that existing Infrastructure may need to be retired early (or be retrofitted with carbon capture and storage technology) in order to meet the Paris Agreement climate goals17. Given the asset value per tonne of committed emissions, we suggest that the most cost-effective premature Infrastructure retirements will be in the electricity and industry sectors, if non-emitting alternatives are available and affordable4,18.
Dan Tong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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committed emissions from existing Energy Infrastructure jeopardize 1 5 c climate target
Nature, 2019Co-Authors: Dan Tong, Qiang Zhang, Yixuan Zheng, Ken Caldeira, Christine Shearer, Chaopeng Hong, Steven J DavisAbstract:Net anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) must approach zero by mid-century (2050) in order to stabilize the global mean temperature at the level targeted by international efforts1-5. Yet continued expansion of fossil-fuel-burning Energy Infrastructure implies already 'committed' future CO2 emissions6-13. Here we use detailed datasets of existing fossil-fuel Energy Infrastructure in 2018 to estimate regional and sectoral patterns of committed CO2 emissions, the sensitivity of such emissions to assumed operating lifetimes and schedules, and the economic value of the associated Infrastructure. We estimate that, if operated as historically, existing Infrastructure will cumulatively emit about 658 gigatonnes of CO2 (with a range of 226 to 1,479 gigatonnes CO2, depending on the lifetimes and utilization rates assumed). More than half of these emissions are predicted to come from the electricity sector; Infrastructure in China, the USA and the 28 member states of the European Union represents approximately 41 per cent, 9 per cent and 7 per cent of the total, respectively. If built, proposed power plants (planned, permitted or under construction) would emit roughly an extra 188 (range 37-427) gigatonnes CO2. Committed emissions from existing and proposed Energy Infrastructure (about 846 gigatonnes CO2) thus represent more than the entire carbon budget that remains if mean warming is to be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C) with a probability of 66 to 50 per cent (420-580 gigatonnes CO2)5, and perhaps two-thirds of the remaining carbon budget if mean warming is to be limited to less than 2 °C (1,170-1,500 gigatonnes CO2)5. The remaining carbon budget estimates are varied and nuanced14,15, and depend on the climate target and the availability of large-scale negative emissions16. Nevertheless, our estimates suggest that little or no new CO2-emitting Infrastructure can be commissioned, and that existing Infrastructure may need to be retired early (or be retrofitted with carbon capture and storage technology) in order to meet the Paris Agreement climate goals17. Given the asset value per tonne of committed emissions, we suggest that the most cost-effective premature Infrastructure retirements will be in the electricity and industry sectors, if non-emitting alternatives are available and affordable4,18.
Johannes Reichl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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realizing Energy Infrastructure projects a qualitative empirical analysis of local practices to address social acceptance
Energy Policy, 2016Co-Authors: Christina Friedl, Johannes ReichlAbstract:The federal state of Upper Austria, at a crossing point for European Energy grids, provides large-scale resources for storage of natural gas and is among the top Infrastructures in this regard in Europe. Considering the ambitious plans for enhancements of Energy Infrastructures in this region, the issue of social acceptance of Energy Infrastructure is crucial. To foster an understanding of the challenges inherent in this issue we present an analysis concentrating on the social acceptance of Energy Infrastructure projects in Upper Austria. This paper addresses the issues with realizing Energy Infrastructure projects and analyzes the problems and benefits based on an empirical–qualitative study comprising expert interviews, discussions with stakeholders, and a round table workshop integrating the disparate viewpoints. The aim of the process was to integrate different attitudes, perspectives and positions of relevant stakeholders, members of citizens’ initiatives, environmental organizations and of the national government and local authorities. The results presented are based on both the analysis of the empirical–qualitative data and the existing studies and literature on social acceptance. The qualitative research compares experiences and current practices with social acceptance issues (like frameworks, participation, communication strategies) in a set of considered Energy Infrastructure projects.
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Realizing Energy Infrastructure projects – A qualitative empirical analysis of local practices to address social acceptance
Energy Policy, 2016Co-Authors: Christina Friedl, Johannes ReichlAbstract:The federal state of Upper Austria, at a crossing point for European Energy grids, provides large-scale resources for storage of natural gas and is among the top Infrastructures in this regard in Europe. Considering the ambitious plans for enhancements of Energy Infrastructures in this region, the issue of social acceptance of Energy Infrastructure is crucial. To foster an understanding of the challenges inherent in this issue we present an analysis concentrating on the social acceptance of Energy Infrastructure projects in Upper Austria. This paper addresses the issues with realizing Energy Infrastructure projects and analyzes the problems and benefits based on an empirical–qualitative study comprising expert interviews, discussions with stakeholders, and a round table workshop integrating the disparate viewpoints. The aim of the process was to integrate different attitudes, perspectives and positions of relevant stakeholders, members of citizens’ initiatives, environmental organizations and of the national government and local authorities. The results presented are based on both the analysis of the empirical–qualitative data and the existing studies and literature on social acceptance. The qualitative research compares experiences and current practices with social acceptance issues (like frameworks, participation, communication strategies) in a set of considered Energy Infrastructure projects.
Hal Nelson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Techno-social Energy Infrastructure siting: Sustainable Energy modeling programming (SEMPro)
JASSS, 2013Co-Authors: Mark Abdollahian, Zining Yang, Hal NelsonAbstract:Technical, environment, social, economic and political constraints are critical barriers to the development of new renewable Energy supplies. SEMPro is an agent-based, predictive analytics model of Energy siting policy in the techno-social space that simulates how competing interests shape siting outcomes to identify beneficial policy for sustainable Energy Infrastructure. Using a high voltage transmission line as a case study, we integrate project engineering and institutional factors with GIS data on land use attributes and US Census residential demographics. We focus on modeling citizen attitudinal, Community Based Organization (CBO) emergence and behavioral diffusion of support and opposition with Bilateral Shapley Values from cooperative game theory. We also simulate the competitive policy process and interaction between citizens, CBOs and regulatory, utility and governmental stakeholders using non-cooperative game theory. We find CBO formation, utility message and NGO messaging have a positive impact on citizen comments submitted as a part of the Environmental Impact Statement process, while project need and procedure have a negative impact. As citizens communicate and exchange political opinions across greater distances with more neighbors, less CBOs form but those that do are more effective, increasing the number of messages citizens send.