Impacts of Green New Deal Energy Plans on Grid Stability, Costs, Jobs, Health, and Climate in 143 Countries

Jacobson, Mark Z.; Delucchi, Mark A.; Cameron, Mary A.; Coughlin, Stephen J.; Hay, Catherine A.; Manogaran, Indu Priya; Shu, Yanbo; Krauland, Anna-Katharina von

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“…At present, the development of renewable power has basically become the consensus of various countries, and even some scholar [ 6,39 ] put forward the concept of 100% renewable power system, it has been nearly realized in some regions in China, such as Ningxia province and Yunnan province. For scenarios where renewable electricity is used, due to the relatively lower CO 2 emission intensity less than 100 g kWh −1 of renewable power, even the CO 2 emission of electric boilers is less than 100 kg CO 2 per ton of steam generation, and that of air‐source heat pump boilers is only 50 kg CO 2 per ton of steam generation.…”

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“…[ 1 ] With the ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, China decided to reduce its per unit of GDP CO 2 emission by 60–65% by 2030 compared with that of 2005. Considering China's current fossil fuel‐based energy infrastructure (see Figure S1a in the Supporting Information), China has launched new policies encouraging transitions of ‘coal to electricity’ programme [ 2–4 ] and ‘coal to gas’ programme [ 5–6 ] for residential heating.…”

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Air‐Source Heat Pump for Distributed Steam Generation: A New and Sustainable Solution to Replace Coal‐Fired Boilers in China

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2020

Advanced Sustainable Systems

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important to meet China's overall goal for reducing carbon emissions. Among the energy consumption in industries, more than 50% of the energy is used in the form of heat [7] and the high-temperature steam is the most widely used heat carrier (see Note S2 in the Supporting Information), which is mainly supplied by industrial boilers. [8] These boilers produce 1.3 Gt CO 2 and are responsible for 33% and 27% of total soot and SO 2 emissions in China, [9] respectively. As can be easily seen, industrial boilers contribute significantly for major energy users, and are one of the key sources of greenhouse gas emissions and air and water pollution in China. [10] Recently in China, small-sized coal-fired boilers have been gradually restricted (see Table S2 in the Supporting Information). Current alternative boilers are oil-fired, gas-fired, electric, biomass, solar boilers, and some other less-common boiler types, each with its advantages, drawbacks, and obstacles for use in certain application. With oil-fired and gas-fired boiler, [11-12] the corresponding pollutants produced by the combustion process are inevitable. Even with the cleaner gas-fired boilers, [13] large amounts of carbon dioxide are emitted during combustion (even if less than with coal). Critically, gas-fired boilers are also faced with the problem of "gas shortages," especially in winter when the demand for residential heating is strong in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. [14] It is found that the biomass boiler has many economic, social and environmental benefits. [15] However, biomass fuels [16] are also characterized by high pollution-related contents including chlorine, high concentrations of alkaline materials, highly volatile components, and low ash melting points that make them easily produce slag and coke from combustion. Solar boilers [7,17] can collect solar energy to generate steam with low operating cost. However, solar boilers are usually with high initial cost due to the large collector area. For example, limited by the solar radiation intension about 1367 W m −2 , a 0.5 t h −1 solar boiler needs at least 200 m 2 of solar collector area. An additional shortcoming is that solar power is unavailable at night and is reduced on cloudy days. Therefore, at present, the application of water vapor generator using solar energy is mainly focused on the large-scale high-temperature steam power generation [18] and small-scale solar desalination conceptual design. [19-20] As for geothermal combined system, [21] waste heat boilers, [22] condensing boilers, [23] although they can offer energy savings With the ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the use of coal-fired boilers in China are being gradually restricted and removed from use to control air pollution and reduce CO 2 emissions. However, current alternatives to coal-fired boilers such as gas-fired boilers, electric boilers, biomass boilers, and solar boilers have obvious limitations and drawbacks that can limit the spread of their use. An air-source heat pump boiler that can extract...

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Air‐Source Heat Pump for Distributed Steam Generation: A New and Sustainable Solution to Replace Coal‐Fired Boilers in China

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2020

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“…Many proposals have been developed on how this can be done (e.g. Jacobson et al 2019;Ram et al 2019). For example the International Energy Agency has a post-pandemic economic plan to force greenhouse gas emissions into permanent decline and boost global economic growth by 1.1 per cent at a cost of US$3 trillion spent over three years (IEA 2020b).…”

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Given that the Paris Agreement is unlikely to prevent dangerous climate overshoot, an alternative risk management strategy is urgently needed

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2020

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“…Shifting energy infrastructure away from fossil fuels and toward climate-smart solutions can go a long way to solving the problem, as the burning of fossil fuels for energy is responsible for 73 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (ClimateWatch n.d.a.). Decarbonization of energy also will lead to significant energy efficiency gains, reduced total energy requirements, reduced total infrastructure investment requirements, increased employment, lower total energy expenditures, and lower social and climate costs (IMF 2019;Jacobson et al 2019;GSPP 2020). While the focus of this report is on mitigation investments, climate adaptation and resilience investments are also briefly discussed as an important area for further in-depth research.…”

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Enabling Institutional Investment in Climate Smart Infrastructure

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2020

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Impacts of Green New Deal Energy Plans on Grid Stability, Costs, Jobs, Health, and Climate in 143 Countries

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Air‐Source Heat Pump for Distributed Steam Generation: A New and Sustainable Solution to Replace Coal‐Fired Boilers in China

Air‐Source Heat Pump for Distributed Steam Generation: A New and Sustainable Solution to Replace Coal‐Fired Boilers in China

Given that the Paris Agreement is unlikely to prevent dangerous climate overshoot, an alternative risk management strategy is urgently needed

Enabling Institutional Investment in Climate Smart Infrastructure

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