Comparing the sustainability of U.S. electricity options through multi-criteria decision analysis

Klein, Sharon; Whalley, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2015.01.007

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“…This is the basis for subsequent research aimed at quantifying the sustainability of energy systems on various dimensions, such as economic, environmental, social, and technical factors [13]. Three core energy transition pathways were set by Reference [14]-"Market Rules, Central Co-ordination and Thousand Flowers".…”

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Sustainable Energy Transitions in China: Renewable Options and Impacts on the Electricity System

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Abstract:Chinese energy consumption has been dominated by coal for decades, but this needs to change to protect the environment and mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Renewable energy development is needed to fulfil the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) for the post-2020 period, as stated on the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. This paper reviews the potential of renewable energy in China and how it could be utilised to meet the INDC goals. A business-as-usual case and eight alternative scenarios with 40% renewable electricity are explored using the EnergyPLAN model to visualise out to the year 2030. Five criteria (total cost, total capacity, excess electricity, CO 2 emissions, and direct job creation) are used to assess the sustainability of the scenarios. The results indicate that renewables can meet the goal of a 20% share of non-fossil energy in primary energy and 40%-50% share of non-fossil energy in electricity power. The low nuclear-hydro power scenario is the most optimal scenario based on the used evaluation criteria. The Chinese government should implement new policies aimed at promoting integrated development of wind power and solar PV.

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“…The employment factor method has been used in many earlier studies [13,84,85] to assess employment from power plants. Job creation was calculated by different categories (by construction/installation, manufacturing and operations & maintenance [84] or as direct and indirect jobs [83,84].…”

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Sustainable Energy Transitions in China: Renewable Options and Impacts on the Electricity System

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“…There are many works that use a multi-criteria approach some of them embedded with sustainability concerns [16], [22], [24]. Some of them use an Analytic Hierarchy Process to build their models and others use multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods such as Dominance, Maximin, Lexicographic, TOPSIS (Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and SAW (Simple Additive Weighting).…”

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Indicators Used in the Energy Sector

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Felgueiras²

2015

JOCET

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Abstract-World energy mix still depends heavily on fossil fuels but the foreseen increase demand, the scarcity of those resources, their unevenly distribution as well as other factors such as economic burdens due to fossil fuel prices and climate change concerns contributed to the establishment and implementation of new policies in the energy sector. Renewable energy sources are being promoted worldwide as a pathway to reduce external energy dependency, moving towards lower carbon energy systems. It is important to policy makers, investors and other stakeholders to have tools for deciding which policies, investments and measures should be implemented in the future. Thus indicators play very important role for fulfilling that task.This work present a structured presentation of several indicators commonly used to compare solutions in the energy domain.

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“…As a result, one of the main outcomes of several renewables and mining summits worldwide is the recognition that mining corporations have to be better educated about the concept of renewable sources in the context of their unique operational demands (Judd, 2014b). 3 Electricity consumption patterns greatly influence the selection of electricity sources (Klein and Whalley, 2015). The majority of mining locations operate day and night, which often creates a relatively constant baseload demand (Levesque et al, 2014).…”

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A literature review on the potential of renewable electricity sources for mining operations in South Africa

Votteler

Brent

2016

J. energy South. Afr.

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Comparing the sustainability of U.S. electricity options through multi-criteria decision analysis

Cited by 133 publications

References 40 publications

Sustainable Energy Transitions in China: Renewable Options and Impacts on the Electricity System

Sustainable Energy Transitions in China: Renewable Options and Impacts on the Electricity System

Indicators Used in the Energy Sector

A literature review on the potential of renewable electricity sources for mining operations in South Africa

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