Metrics for Decision-Making in Energy Justice

Baker, Erin; Carley, Sanya; Castellanos, Sergio; Nock, Destenie; Bozeman, Joe F.; Konisky, David; Monyei, Chukwuka G.; Shah, Monisha; Sovacool, Benjamin

doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-112621-063400

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Recent reviews have highlighted that research on equity and charging infrastructure has to date focused predominantly on questions of placement (Kontou et al 2022, Carlton and Sultana 2023, Hopkins et al 2023 and distribution (Baker et al 2023). By drawing on grey literature and news reports, in addition to academic literature, we identify additional dimensions of charging equity that we argue are important to consider in charging infrastructure planning and research.…”

Section: A Framework For Assessing Equity In Public Charging Infrastr...mentioning

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Equitable charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: access and experience

Bhatt,

Giang,

Javed

et al. 2024

Prog. Energy

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The shift toward electric vehicles (EVs) as a decarbonization strategy in transportation raises important energy justice concerns, particularly regarding fair access to charging infrastructure. This perspective synthesizes evidence on how access to, and experience of, charging infrastructure may differ across socio-economic groups across North America. We present a framework for assessing charging infrastructure equity that includes: (i) accessibility—proximity, reliability, visibility, affordability; and (ii) user experiences related to safety, payment ease, and co-located other services. The framework helps characterize the varied impacts across socio-demographic groups, including on low-income and marginalized communities. We explore how the direct and indirect effects of accessibility and user experience might influence the distribution and design of EV charging stations. Considerations of socio-economic diversity in the deployment of charging infrastructure are critical to ensure equitable benefits from electric mobility. We conclude that targeted actions from manufacturers, charging operators, and governments are needed to alleviate the disparities in access and experiences with public EV charging.

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Equitable charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: access and experience

Bhatt,

Giang,

Javed

et al. 2024

Prog. Energy

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“…Increased electrification is necessary for incorporating more renewables in the energy mix, while sectors which cannot easily be electrified are considered "hard-to-abate" (Paltsev et al, 2021). Energy Burden is calculated in each region as per capita spending on residential energy use divided by per capita GDP, and is a widely used metric for energy equity and energy justice considerations (Baker et al, 2023). Capacity Investments and Stranded Assets are economic metrics reporting the costs of new capacity additions and premature capacity retirements in the power sector, respectively, due to implementing climate pledges (Binsted et al, 2020;Iyer et al, 2015b;Zhao et al, 2021).…”

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Large ensemble exploration of global energy transitions under national emissions pledges

Wessel,

Iyer,

Lamontagne

et al. 2024

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Global climate goals require a transition to a deeply decarbonized energy system. Meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement through countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-Term Strategies represents a complex problem with consequences across multiple systems shrouded by deep uncertainty. Robust, large-ensemble methods and analyses mapping a wide range of possible future states of the world are needed to help policymakers design effective strategies to meet emissions reduction goals. This study contributes a scenario discovery analysis applied to a large ensemble of 5,760 model realizations generated using the Global Change Analysis Model. Eleven energy-related uncertainties are systematically varied, representing national mitigation pledges, institutional factors, and techno-economic parameters, among others. The resulting ensemble maps how uncertainties impact common energy system metrics used to characterize national and global pathways toward deep decarbonization. Results show globally consistent but regionally variable energy transitions as measured by multiple metrics, including electricity costs and stranded assets. Larger economies and developing regions experience more severe economic outcomes across a broad sampling of uncertainty. The scale of CO removal globally determines how much the energy system can continue to emit, but the relative role of different CO removal options in meeting decarbonization goals varies across regions. Previous studies characterizing uncertainty have typically focused on a few scenarios, and other large-ensemble work has not (to our knowledge) combined this framework with national emissions pledges or institutional factors. Our results underscore the value of large-ensemble scenario discovery for decision support as countries begin to design strategies to meet their goals.

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“…Energy justice scholars have described important dimensions of equity including health, access, and livelihood, and have suggested that key components of an equitable energy transition include renewable energy deployment, fossil fuel infrastructure retirement, transportation electrification, and residential building decarbonization [10]. Others have suggested additional dimensions including consumer energy consumption, wealth creation, ownership, and autonomy; multi-scalar supply chain equity; and comparative country-level equity [11].…”

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Emerging environmental justice issues at the intersection of transportation and electricity systems

Hennessy,

Azevedo

2024

Prog. Energy

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Rapid decarbonization of the transportation system is needed to address global climate change, and electrification of the transportation sector will likely be an important strategy to achieve decarbonization goals. While electrification is an effective approach to reducing carbon emissions, it may result in environmental justice consequences that need to be tackled. We discuss four categories of related issues: air quality and health-related equity; technology access; equitable infrastructure development; and a just global supply chain. In regions where grid decarbonization is well under way, transport-related disparities in air quality and health are expected to decrease with electrification. In contrast, in regions that still rely heavily on coal generation, disparities may increase, putting further strain on low-income communities and people of color. The high upfront cost of electric vehicles and limited access to charging present additional challenges for achieving equity in transportation electrification. Meeting the electricity demand of a fully electric vehicle fleet will require rapid expansion of power generation, transmission, and distribution capacity, and the location and design of this infrastructure will have further impacts on communities where it is sited. Here, we offer a perspective on these emerging environmental justice issues at the intersection of transportation and electricity systems and provide policy recommendations and future research directions for electrified transportation. We suggest there is a need for policies targeting electrification and power sector decarbonization in tandem, assessment of barriers to electric vehicle adoption in different groups, development of strategies for community inclusion in infrastructure development decisions, and creation of frameworks to assess equity tradeoffs along the global supply chain supporting electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies.

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Metrics for Decision-Making in Energy Justice

Cited by 24 publications

References 89 publications

Equitable charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: access and experience

Equitable charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: access and experience

Large ensemble exploration of global energy transitions under national emissions pledges

Emerging environmental justice issues at the intersection of transportation and electricity systems

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