Equity and Sustainability: A framework for Equitable Energy Transition Analyses

公平与可持续性：公平能源转型分析框架

• 批准号: 2017789
• 负责人: Destenie Nock
• 金额: $ 39.99万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017789&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equity; Sustainability; framework; Equitable; Energy

Decisions regarding transitions from traditional energy sources such as fossil fuels to more sustainable, renewable energy systems impact multiple constituencies, including the most vulnerable members of society. This research addresses two questions: (1) What are transition pathways from non-renewable energy sources (such as fossil fuels) to renewable energy sources (such as wind and solar) for the US electricity sector that can best balance the (sometimes conflicting) objectives of the transition, while accounting for social equity and sustainability? (2) How can transition to a low-carbon electricity system be done in a way that minimizes adverse impacts on the most vulnerable members of society? This research targets creating a new way to account for social equity in the sustainability analysis of transitions to new energy systems, which may help guide decision-makers. There are many decision makers and constituencies in energy system planning, each of which may make decisions or influence decisions according to their own versions of the desired goals. This research builds and expands upon previous research in three key ways that permit a more robust sustainability assessment of future electricity systems, and incorporates social equity into the energy transition discussion. First, an electricity system expansion model is coupled with a system sustainability model and then examined to ask how increasing carbon constraints are likely to impact power system development, and how important regional cooperation is likely to be in achieving a fully decarbonized US electricity system. Second, social equity will be an integral part of the sustainability analysis framework, thus displaying how other facets of sustainability impede or support an equitable energy transition. Third, to illuminate the social equity trade-offs, how regional cooperation may impact job and price equity around the country will be investigated. This research will be a system sustainability analysis for the entire US that incorporates multiple metrics for social equity, while capturing impacts of integrating intermittent renewables in the grid. The PI will develop an open-source data analysis tool for electricity sustainability analysis, enriching the discussion and uncovering the interactions among sustainability criterion at a national scale. The social equity focused framework is targeted to facilitate national discussions about how energy transition will impact communities in the US. This framework may also help support planning for job recovery of those most affected by the retirement of fossil fuel generation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

关于从化石燃料等传统能源向更可持续的可再生能源系统过渡的决定影响到多个群体，包括社会中最脆弱的成员。这项研究涉及两个问题：(1)美国电力部门从不可再生能源(如化石燃料)向可再生能源(如风能和太阳能)的过渡路径是什么，能够最好地平衡过渡的目标(有时相互冲突)，同时考虑到社会公平和可持续发展？(2)如何才能以最大限度地减少对社会最脆弱成员的不利影响的方式过渡到低碳电力系统？这项研究旨在创造一种新的方法，在向新能源系统过渡的可持续性分析中考虑社会公平，这可能有助于指导决策者。在能源系统规划中有许多决策者和支持者，他们中的每一个人都可能根据自己对期望目标的不同版本做出决策或影响决策。这项研究在先前研究的基础上，从三个关键方面对未来电力系统进行了更有力的可持续性评估，并将社会公平纳入了能源转型的讨论。首先，将电力系统扩展模型与系统可持续发展模型结合起来，然后考察增加的碳限制可能如何影响电力系统的发展，以及区域合作在实现完全脱碳的美国电力系统方面可能有多重要。第二，社会公平将是可持续性分析框架的组成部分，从而显示可持续性的其他方面如何阻碍或支持公平的能源过渡。第三，为了阐明社会公平的权衡，将调查区域合作如何影响全国各地的就业和价格公平。这项研究将是对整个美国的系统可持续性分析，纳入社会公平的多种衡量标准，同时捕捉在电网中整合间歇性可再生能源的影响。国际电力协会将开发一个用于电力可持续性分析的开源数据分析工具，丰富讨论并揭示国家范围内可持续性标准之间的相互作用。关注社会公平的框架旨在促进关于能源转型将如何影响美国社区的全国性讨论。这一框架还可能有助于支持那些受化石燃料发电退役影响最大的人的就业恢复计划。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.101933
• 发表时间: 2021-01-21
• 期刊: ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Baker, Erin;Nock, Destenie;Sackey, Charles Van-Hein
• 通讯作者: Sackey, Charles Van-Hein

Wind energy's bycatch: Offshore wind deployment impacts on hydropower operation and migratory fish

• DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.110885
• 发表时间: 2021-03-19
• 期刊: RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
• 影响因子: 15.9
• 作者: Pfeiffer, Olivia;Nock, Destenie;Baker, Erin
• 通讯作者: Baker, Erin

Comparison of temporal resolution selection approaches in energy systems models

• DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.123969
• 发表时间: 2022-04-21
• 期刊: ENERGY
• 影响因子: 9
• 作者: Marcy, Cara;Goforth, Teagan;Brown, Maxwell
• 通讯作者: Brown, Maxwell

Air pollution co-benefits from strengthening electric transmission and distribution systems

• DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.126735
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: Energy
• 影响因子: 9
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