Journal: Energy Policy

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Energy Policy

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Elsevier

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  • Smart grids and the transformation of the electricity sector
    Item type: Journal Article
    Erlinghagen, Sabine; Markard, Jochen (2012)
    Energy Policy
  • Energy systems modelling for just transitions
    Item type: Journal Article
    Lonergan, Katherine; Suter, Nicolas; Sansavini, Giovanni (2023)
    Energy Policy
    Policymaking increasingly targets an energy transition that is not only low cost and low carbon, but also just. While energy system models have been useful policymaking tools towards achieving the first two objectives, it is yet unclear to what extent they can also support a just transition. Here, we review 73 recent energy systems modelling studies using an analytical coding frame and observe a diversity of approaches to account for energy justice. While models do show promise in being able to support a just transition, especially in terms of assessing distributional outcomes, many of the approaches in the literature are poorly connected to current energy justice goals and discourses, decreasing the studies’ policy relevance and leaving policymakers with suboptimal planning support. Based on our results, we suggest eight actions for modellers to increase the policy relevance of their studies, which include more direct engagement with policy and research discourses, developing location-specific case studies, leveraging public participation in the modelling process, and considering asset decommissioning.
  • Analysing socioeconomic diversity and scaling effects on residential electricity load profiles in the context of low carbon technology uptake
    Item type: Journal Article
    McKenna, Russell; Hofmann, L.; Merkel, Erik; et al. (2016)
    Energy Policy
    Adequately accounting for interactions between Low Carbon Technologies (LCTs) at the building level and the overarching energy system means capturing the granularity associated with decentralised heat and power supply in residential buildings. The approach presented here adds novelty in terms of a realistic socioeconomic differentiation by employing dwelling/household archetypes (DHAs) and neighbourhood clusters at the Output Area (OA) level. These archetypes are combined with a mixed integer linear program (MILP) to generate optimum (minimum cost) technology configurations and operation schedules. Even in the baseline case, without any LCT penetration, a substantial deviation from the standard load profile (SLP) is encountered, suggesting that for some neighbourhoods this profile is not appropriate. With the application of LCTs, including heat pumps, micro-CHP and photovoltaic (PV), this effect is much stronger, including more negative residual load, more variability, and higher ramps with increased LCT penetration, and crucially different between neighbourhood clusters. The main policy implication of the study is the importance of understanding electrical load profiles at the neighbourhood level, because of the consequences they have for investment in the overarching energy system, including transmission and distribution infrastructure, and centralised generation plant. Further work should focus on attaining a superior socioeconomic differentiation between households.
  • Determination of costpotential-curves for wind energy in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg
    Item type: Journal Article
    McKenna, Russell; Gantenbein, Sophia; Fichtner, Wolf (2013)
    Energy Policy
    The new federal government in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg has set a target for 10% of gross electricity generation from wind energy by 2020. Given that currently around 0.1% of the electricity generation comes from wind energy, this paper examines the technical feasibility and economic costs associated with realising this goal. The technical potential for wind energy in Baden-Württemberg is determined, along with the costs of electricity generation, which together lead to the derivation of costpotential-curves. The technical potential is calculated by identifying the available area with the aid of a geographical information system (GIS) and land use information. With the help of a regional wind atlas, turbine power curves and an assumed wind speed frequency distribution, the spatially distributed electricity generation potential on a district level is estimated. The costs of wind energy are investigated for the year 2010 and projected for the years 2020 and 2030 on the basis of learning curves. The result is a suitable area for wind energy of 2119km, which amounts to 5.9% of the total area of Baden-Württemberg. Depending on the wind turbine selected, a capacity of 18.5GW up to 24.5GW could be installed and depending on the hub height and the turbine, an electricity yield of 29.3TWh up to 40.7TWh could be generated. The costs of electricity, depending on the type of turbine and the average wind speed, but lie for 2010 between 3.99 and 21.42€-cents/kWh, reducing by 2030 to 3.3317.84€-cents/kWh.
  • Rowing, steering or anchoring? Public values for geothermal energy governance
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ruef, Franziska; Ejderyan, Olivier (2021)
    Energy Policy
    Energy transitions require a rethinking of the role of public authorities to integrate public views and concerns. Through a case study in Geneva, Switzerland, this article examines how the public sees the role of the public authority in the transformation of a local energy system by developing a canton-wide geothermal program. We use a public values perspective, identifying public values linked to the roles and responsibilities of the state. Analyzing public values allows understanding how the public perceives state actions and consequently how the authority may adequately respond and accommodate these expectations and doing so, anchor policies in public values. We begin by exploring the concepts of public value and posing the contextual background. The article then presents the most salient public values linked to the roles and responsibilities of the authorities based on focus group data. For residents the most important function of the public authority in relation to energy transitions is to inform and raise awareness. Other important functions are providing financial support and regulating. Acknowledging the importance of communication and its associated values allows public authorities to set the anchor to then effectively roll out, plan or support energy transition projects.
  • The role of residential distributed energy resources in Pakistan's energy transition
    Item type: Journal Article
    Mehmood, Fahad; Umar, Muhammad; Dominguez, Cristina; et al. (2022)
    Energy Policy
    In light of climate change concerns and falling costs, many low-income countries, such as Pakistan, have adopted a number of policies to incentivise distributed energy resources and generation. These policies have meant that the installed base of grid-connected distributed solar generation in Pakistan has grown rapidly, from only 1 MW in 2015–2016 to 232 MW in 2020–2021. However, it still constitutes a paltry 0.5% of the overall electricity mix. In this paper, using high-resolution demand and generation profiles from Lahore (the second most populous city in Pakistan and the one with the most distributed generation), we show that distributed generation offers low payback periods for urban households, even without net metering. This calculus is aided by likely future tariff hikes. Additionally, distributed generation helps support the grid, even without storage or demand response, due to a close alignment between supply and demand. Based on this analysis, we recommend the regulator to provide longer term visibility on the continuation of incentives such as net metering, and how this will eventually be shifted towards solar mandates. Likewise, it is prudent for distribution companies to provide targeted incentives for uptake of distributed generation to alleviate issues such as non-technical losses and transformer overloading.
  • Short- and long-run time-of-use price elasticities in Swiss residential electricity demand
    Item type: Journal Article
    Filippini, Massimo (2011)
    Energy Policy
  • Endogenous technological change and emissions
    Item type: Journal Article
    Lutz, Christian; Meyer, Bernd; Nathani, Carsten; et al. (2005)
    Energy Policy
  • Resource rent taxation and benchmarking
    Item type: Journal Article
    Banfi, Silvia; Filippini, Massimo (2010)
    Energy Policy
  • Synergies and trade-offs between governance and costs in electricity system transition
    Item type: Journal Article
    Trutnevyte, Evelina; Strachan, Neil D.; Dodds, Paul E.; et al. (2015)
    Energy Policy
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