California end-use electrification impacts on carbon neutrality and clean air

Ebrahimi, Siavash; Kinnon, Michael Mac; Brouwer, Jack

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.01.050

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“…Some shared patterns and conclusions have emerged to further the scientific understanding of air quality co-benefits. Air quality co-benefits of decarbonization are not universal nor guaranteed (26,74,76), but do present large opportunities to decrease O 3 and PM 2.5 concentrations and reduce human population exposure to these healthdamaging pollutants.…”

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“…Analyses of multiple energy scenarios, including transportation and/or renewable energy strategies, have been categorized as a climate policy as they evaluate multiple strategies to decrease carbon emissions. All except Ebrahimi et al (76) calculate health and associated economic benefits of climate policies. Most of these studies take an economic modeling approach to emissions calculations, with three using a computable general equilibrium model (72,74,77); three, a capacity expansion model (23,73,76); one, a data and analysis tool (75); and one, an emissions inventory (71).…”

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“…Thus, air pollution emissions shift spatially from the tailpipe to nearby power plants and temporally from daytime to nighttime (26,87). Ebrahimi et al (76) found that electrifying transportation systems in California resulted in air quality improvements in highly populated areas with poor air quality, but also localized O 3 and PM 2.5 concentrations next to electricity generating units. The potential disbenefits of vehicle electrification depend on the sources of electricity.…”

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Integrating Air Quality and Public Health Benefits in U.S. Decarbonization Strategies

Gallagher

Holloway

2020

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Research on air quality and human health "co-benefits" from climate mitigation strategies represents a growing area of policy-relevant scholarship. Compared to other aspects of climate and energy policy evaluation, however, there are still relatively few of these co-benefits analyses. This sparsity reflects a historical disconnect between research quantifying energy and climate, and research dealing with air quality and health. The air quality co-benefits of climate, clean energy, and transportation electrification policies are typically assessed with models spanning social, physical, chemical, and biological systems. This review article summarizes studies to date and presents methods used for these interdisciplinary analyses. Studies in the peer-reviewed literature (n = 26) have evaluated carbon pricing, renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency, renewable energy deployment, and clean transportation. A number of major findings have emerged from these studies: [1] decarbonization strategies can reduce air pollution disproportionally on the most polluted days; [2] renewable energy deployment and climate policies offer the highest health and economic benefits in regions with greater reliance on coal generation; [3] monetized air quality health co-benefits can offset costs of climate policy implementation; [4] monetized co-benefits typically exceed the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of renewable energies; [5] Electric vehicle (EV) adoption generally improves air quality on peak pollution days, but can result in ozone dis-benefits in urban centers due to the titration of ozone with nitrogen oxides. Drawing from these published studies, we review the state of knowledge on climate co-benefits to air quality and health, identifying opportunities for policy action and further research.

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Integrating Air Quality and Public Health Benefits in U.S. Decarbonization Strategies

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2020

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“…Studies of energy system decarbonization also include several scenarios with increased electrification (Williams et al 2014;Ebrahimi, Mac Kinnon, and Brouwer 2018;Boßmann and Staffell 2015). 9 These studies generally find electrification levels that are comparable or exceed those from the EFS scenarios.…”

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Electrification Futures Study: Operational Analysis of U.S. Power Systems with Increased Electrification and Demand-Side Flexibility

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2021

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“…Other China modeling studies have evaluated the potential impacts of accelerated electrification, but most focused on transport without consideration for industry or commercial buildings, two dominant and rapidly growing sectors in China's energy system [12,[24][25][26]. Most other studies also do not explicitly model the linkage between electrification and power sector decarbonization [27], or have done so only for other regions [28][29][30][31] or only for selected sectors [24,32,33]. Other studies have estimated economy-wide electrification rates through historical extrapolation and regression analysis focused on per capita electricity consumption [34,35].…”

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Energy and CO2 implications of decarbonization strategies for China beyond efficiency: Modeling 2050 maximum renewable resources and accelerated electrification impacts

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• China LEAP model used to assess multi-sector decarbonization strategies to 2050. • Energy, CO 2 impacts of accelerated electrification and renewables are assessed. • 2025 CO 2 peak feasible under 4 strategies, peak levels vary from 10.2 to 10.7 GtCO 2. • Faster electrification's CO 2 impact depend on pace of power sector decarbonization. • Demand-side renewable has similar CO 2 reduction impact as power decarbonization.

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California end-use electrification impacts on carbon neutrality and clean air

Cited by 52 publications

References 26 publications

Integrating Air Quality and Public Health Benefits in U.S. Decarbonization Strategies

Integrating Air Quality and Public Health Benefits in U.S. Decarbonization Strategies

Electrification Futures Study: Operational Analysis of U.S. Power Systems with Increased Electrification and Demand-Side Flexibility

Energy and CO2 implications of decarbonization strategies for China beyond efficiency: Modeling 2050 maximum renewable resources and accelerated electrification impacts

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