Greenhouse gas emission intensity factors for marginal electricity generation in Canada

Farhat, Amal A. M.; Ugursal, V. Ismet

doi:10.1002/er.1676

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“…In line with numerous studies regarding energy-system-level implications [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38], our results highlight the relevance of marginal system implications. These studies have mainly focused on single measures, short-term implications, or general implications, while our study has focused on municipal planning and municipal energy planning.…”

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“…Studies [29,30] have suggested that by altering the electricity consumption at the system level decreases or increases the regulative/marginal capacity in a similar fashion. Studies [31,32,34] have offered similar findings to the perspective that uses a single measure.…”

Section: Electricity Grid-level System Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Nordic cases, the cities often demonstrate their own willingness to carry out energy planning [27], although national energy policies have an important role as well, since cities with local energy plans typically follow national policies [28].Apart from the carbon and energy footprint studies, implications for an energy system that arise due to changes in parts of the energy system have been studied from the perspectives of energy consumption and energy production. Studies such as Siler-Evans et al [29] and Farhat & Ugursal [30] have suggested that increasing or decreasing electricity consumption at the system level leads to similar changes in marginal energy production. Thus, for example, decreasing energy consumption leads to relatively higher emission savings, as if average electricity production had decreased instead.…”

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Consequential Implications of Municipal Energy System on City Carbon Footprints

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Climate change mitigation is an important goal for cities globally. Energy production contributes more than half of the global greenhouse gas emissions, and thus the mitigation potential of local municipal energy systems is important for cities to recognize. The purpose of the study is to analyze the role of local municipal energy systems in the consumption-based carbon footprint of a city resident. The research supplements the previous carbon footprint assessments of city residents with an energy system implication analysis. The study includes 20 of the largest cities in Finland. The main findings of the study are as follows: first, the municipal combined heat and power energy system contributes surprisingly little (on average 18%) to the direct carbon footprint of city residents, supporting some previous findings about a high degree of outsourcing of emissions in cities in developed countries. Second, when indirect emissions (i.e., the implication of a municipal energy system on the national energy system) are allocated to city residents, the significance of the local energy system increases substantially to 32%. Finally, without the benefits of local combined heat and power technology based electricity consumption, the carbon footprints would have increased by an additional 13% to 47% due to the emissions from compensatory electricity production. The results also show that the direct application of consumption-based carbon assessment would imply a relatively low significance for municipal energy solutions. However, with a broader understanding of energy system dynamics, the significance of municipal energy increases substantially. The results emphasize the importance of the consequential energy system implications, which is typically left out of the evaluations of consumption-based carbon footprints.

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“…CHREM consists of six components that work together to provide predictions of the end-use energy consumption and GHG emission of the CHS. These components are (Swan et al 2008(Swan et al , 2013Swan 2010;Farhat and Ugursal 2010):  The Canadian Single-Detached & Double/Row Housing Database (CSDDRD),  A neural network model of the appliances and lighting (AL) and domestic hot water (DHW) energy consumption of Canadian households,  A set of AL and DHW load profiles representing the usage profiles in Canadian households,  A high-resolution building energy simulation software (ESP-r) that is capable of accurately predicting the energy consumption of each house file in CSDDRD,  A model to estimate GHG emissions from marginal electricity generation in each province of Canada and for each month of the year,  A model to estimate GHG emissions from fossil fuels consumed in households. As shown in Fig.…”

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Techno-economic assessment of the impact of phase change material thermal storage on the energy consumption and GHG emissions of the Canadian Housing Stock

2014

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Responsible for 17% of all energy consumption and 16% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada, the residential sector presents substantial opportunities for reducing both energy consumption and GHG emissions. Being one of the highest per capita energy consumers in the world, there is increasing pressure on Canada to reduce both. Amongst the numerous options to reduce energy consumption in the residential sector is the large-scale adoption of active and passive solar technologies in the Canadian housing stock (CHS). In earlier publications, the authors have investigated the techno-economic feasibility of large-scale adoption of window and glazing modifications, window shading devices and solar domestic hot water systems in the CHS as retrofit measures. In this paper, the focus is on the adoption of thermal storage using phase change material (PCM) in the CHS as a retrofit measure. The results indicate that applying PCMs with melting temperature of 23˚C to the eligible houses reduce energy consumption GHG emissions of the Canadian housing stock by about 2.5%. The economic feasibility results demonstrate the impact of fuel costs, as well as interest and energy price escalation rates on payback period. The economic results indicate that upgrading houses to incorporate PCM storage in the province of New Brunswick is more feasible than other provinces. Keywordsphase change material, techno-economic assessment, energy consumption, GHG emissions, Canadian housing stock

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“…Though subjective norm might be expected to be significant in determining technology acceptance, based on theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior, there is empirical evidence to support the role of building somewhat mixed (Ajzen, 1985(Ajzen, , 1991. However, most companies can minimise GHG emissions by managing efficiency barriers more appropriately (Farhat & Ugursal, 2010).…”

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Identifying Effective Management Instruments and Human Behavioural Changes to Manage Energy Use and Abate Emissions at Firm Level

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2013

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Despite recent efforts to reduce the growth of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) at the national level, the negative environmental impacts of GHGs are likely to increase more in the future, especially at the level of the company. This paper presents an extension to current integrated management efforts with traditional assessments to improve current situations. The extension can be used to determine strategies of cost-effectiveness to control emissions and achieve environmental goals in reducing concentrations of GHGs. Methods developed to demonstrate significant cost savings in companies and sectors are command and control (CAC), and innovation; these instruments can contribute to the allocation of emission controls when market instruments do not fully work. To achieve further GHG emission reductions, improvements to behavioural change regarding the use of energy are an emerging area of research that has significant implications for policy. There is increasing evidence that human behaviour has been producing environmental problems. This paper introduces elements and interventions that could affect that behaviour. Governments and businesses have agreed that there is a need for more emphasis on proper assessment of behavioural change interventions. Therefore, increasing efficiency and reducing barriers within marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) has improved the results for the management of abatement energy and emissions at firm level.

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Greenhouse gas emission intensity factors for marginal electricity generation in Canada

Cited by 51 publications

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Consequential Implications of Municipal Energy System on City Carbon Footprints

Consequential Implications of Municipal Energy System on City Carbon Footprints

Techno-economic assessment of the impact of phase change material thermal storage on the energy consumption and GHG emissions of the Canadian Housing Stock

Identifying Effective Management Instruments and Human Behavioural Changes to Manage Energy Use and Abate Emissions at Firm Level

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