SEES: Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Planning

这个跨学科的项目将探索为美国电力基础设施系统的可持续现代化和扩展设计新一代政策激励措施，以确保具有气候适应性的基础设施能够满足社会预计的未来能源需求。这项研究将有助于：1)量化不同气候情景和政策应对下气候灾害对电力系统构成的风险；2)为美国墨西哥湾沿岸和东海岸地区开发电力基础设施的经济和工程可靠性模型；3)评估不同气候情景下极端气候对电力系统基础设施的宏观经济影响；4)制定政策激励措施，以可持续地扩大发电和输电能力，以确保气候适应能力。确保美国电力基础设施的可持续性和弹性是美国面临的重大挑战之一。由于能源基础设施和其他关键生命线之间存在复杂的相互依存关系，电力部门的中断可能对国家安全、数字经济、公共健康和环境产生不利影响，并对社会产生破坏性的社会经济影响。能源基础设施迫切需要现代化，以安全可靠地满足预计的未来需求。虽然这种现代化应该以可持续的方式进行，以确保电力系统在面对气候变化时的复原力，但目前的能源系统规划没有充分考虑和综合这一问题的多学科方面，也没有提供能够成功促进所需过渡的激励机制。这项研究旨在为所需的规划工作提供一个框架。该项目将涉及国内和国际政府、学术和行业组织之间的合作，并将包括开发一门关于能源基础设施可持续发展的大学课程和面向高中生的外联。该项目由NSF科学、工程和教育可持续发展研究员(SEE FLOLS)计划支持，目标是帮助实现必要的发现，为导致环境、能源和社会可持续发展的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在SEES研究员的支持下，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中站稳脚跟。

This interdisciplinary project will explore the design of a new generation of policy incentives for sustainable modernization and expansion of U.S. electric power infrastructure systems in order to ensure a climate resilient infrastructure that can meet society's projected future energy demands. The research will contribute to: 1) quantifying risks posed to power systems by climate hazard under different climate scenarios and policy responses, 2) developing electric power infrastructure reliability models, both economic and engineering, for the Gulf Coast and East Coast regions of the United States, 3) assessing macroeconomic consequences of climate extremes on power systems infrastructure under different climate scenarios, and 4) devising policy incentives for sustainably expanding electric generation and transmission capacity to ensure climate resilience. Ensuring the sustainability and resilience of the U.S. electric power infrastructure is one of the grand challenges facing the nation. Due to the complex interdependencies that exist between energy infrastructure and other critical lifelines, disruption in the electric sector can adversely affect national security, digital economy, public health, and the environment, and have debilitating socio-economic impacts on society. Energy infrastructure is in urgent need of modernization to meet projected future demands securely and safely. While this modernization should be done in a sustainable manner that ensures resilience of the power systems in the face of changing climate, current energy system planning does not fully account for and integrate the multi-disciplinary aspects of the problem and fails to provide incentive mechanisms capable of successfully fostering the needed transition. This study is intended to provide a framework for the required planning effort.The project will involve collaborations among government, academic and industry organizations, both domestically and internationally, and will include development of a university course on energy infrastructure sustainability and outreach to high school students.This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.