Design of Low-Carbon Electric and Communication Infrastructure

Abstract

Concerns about climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions would make us reduce our dependency on carbon-based energy sources. The current infrastructure is optimized for the use of carbon-based energy. Due to the low energy densities of low-carbon sources, the same infrastructure might not be suitable or efficient. Therefore, design issues pertaining to the low-carbon infrastructure are investigated, and this paper suggests a centralized conventional architecture laid over many new small distributed low-carbon electrical and communication infrastructure.