Pub Date : 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100253
Kuihua Wang , Lijun Zhu , Junye Wu , Tianshu Ge
A primary challenge impeding the large-scale deployment of direct air capture (DAC) is its high energy consumption, mainly associated with external input to drive process parameter swings (such as temperature, humidity, and CO2 concentration). Environmental parameter exhibits strong spatiotemporal variability, significantly impacting the performance of DAC. By adapting DAC operation with environmental variability, potential energy can be effectively extracted from air, thus lowering the energy demand. Diurnal fluctuations can be leveraged for passive desorption, while intense wind facilitates the passive adsorption, Seasonal and long-term environmental changes necessitate adaptive scheduling and operational optimization to maintain performance. Geographical disparities in climate act as natural energy reservoirs, offering opportunities for region-specific deployment strategies. Particularly, high ambient temperatures enable efficient integration of air-source heat pumps; cold climates suppress water co-adsorption and provide effective condensation; humid regions employ water-source heat pump to recovery excessive condensation heat efficiently; and arid regions, with low humidity, minimize water desorption requirements. Future research should prioritize the practical experimental testing, adaptive control and optimization algorithms, alongside establishing quantitative assessment frameworks to guide climate-specific deployment.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-29DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100251
Jerry Lambert , Hermann Kraus , Markus Doepfert , Miaomiao He , David Gschossmann , Amedeo Ceruti , Isabell Nemeth , Oliver Brückl , Thomas Hamacher , Hartmut Spliethoff
Enhanced sector coupling across electricity, mobility, and heating sectors leads to higher efforts for distribution grid upgrades. Based on a case study, this paper evaluates the role of district heating networks in reducing electrical distribution grid reinforcements and compares their economic viability against a building-specific heat supply using heat pumps. A detailed energy system model is used to analyze two building energy renovation scenarios: a business-as-usual scenario with a 1 % annual renovation rate and an ambitious scenario with a rate of 2 %. Using a two-step optimization, the impact of different district heating network penetration levels on the distribution grid is evaluated, followed by an ex-post analysis to incorporate a simultaneity factor into district heating networks. Overall, district heating networks can reduce distribution grid reinforcements, but the associated savings alone do not justify their construction, particularly in the ambitious renovation scenario. In the business-as-usual scenario, a district heating network can reduce reinforcement costs by up to 71 %. However, in the ambitious scenario, grid reinforcements are already reduced due to lower heat peak demand, and the maximal reinforcement cost savings only amount to 35 %. Compared economically, district heating networks are cost-competitive with building-specific heating only in the business-as-usual scenario, up to a heat supply share of 70 % and in the ambitious scenario, up to 40 %. In both scenarios, a district heating network can be a robust solution to lower macroeconomic costs for a carbon-neutral heat supply.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100252
Angelo Carlino , Alicia Wongel , Lei Duan , Edgar Virgüez , Steven J. Davis , Morgan R. Edwards , Ken Caldeira
Climate and energy policy analysts and researchers often forecast the cost of low-carbon energy technologies using Wright’s model of technological innovation. The learning rate, i.e., the percentage cost reduction per doubling of cumulative production, is assumed constant in this model. Here, we analyze the relationship between cost and scale of production for 87 technologies in the Performance Curve Database spanning multiple sectors. We find that stepwise changes in learning rates provide a better fit for 58 of these technologies and produce forecasts with equal or significantly lower errors compared to constant learning rates for 36 and 30 technologies, respectively. While costs generally decrease with increasing production, past learning rates are not good predictors of future learning rates. We show that these results affect technological change projections in the short and long term, focusing on three key mitigation technologies: solar photovoltaics, wind power, and lithium-ion batteries. We suggest that investment in early-stage technologies nearing cost-competitiveness, combined with techno-economic analysis and decision-making under uncertainty methods, can help mitigate the impact of uncertainty in projections of future technology cost.
{"title":"Variability of technology learning rates","authors":"Angelo Carlino , Alicia Wongel , Lei Duan , Edgar Virgüez , Steven J. Davis , Morgan R. Edwards , Ken Caldeira","doi":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100252","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100252","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate and energy policy analysts and researchers often forecast the cost of low-carbon energy technologies using Wright’s model of technological innovation. The learning rate, i.e., the percentage cost reduction per doubling of cumulative production, is assumed constant in this model. Here, we analyze the relationship between cost and scale of production for 87 technologies in the Performance Curve Database spanning multiple sectors. We find that stepwise changes in learning rates provide a better fit for 58 of these technologies and produce forecasts with equal or significantly lower errors compared to constant learning rates for 36 and 30 technologies, respectively. While costs generally decrease with increasing production, past learning rates are not good predictors of future learning rates. We show that these results affect technological change projections in the short and long term, focusing on three key mitigation technologies: solar photovoltaics, wind power, and lithium-ion batteries. We suggest that investment in early-stage technologies nearing cost-competitiveness, combined with techno-economic analysis and decision-making under uncertainty methods, can help mitigate the impact of uncertainty in projections of future technology cost.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34615,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Energy","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100252"},"PeriodicalIF":13.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145466121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-19DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100249
Kerem Ziya Akdemir , Kendall Mongird , Cameron Bracken , Casey D. Burleyson , Jordan D. Kern , Konstantinos Oikonomou , Travis B. Thurber , Chris R. Vernon , Nathalie Voisin , Mengqi Zhao , Jennie S. Rice
The reliability of power grids in the future will depend on how system planners account for the integration of new technologies, extreme weather events, and uncertainties in demand growth from increased electrification and data centers. This study introduces an open-source, multisectoral, multiscale modeling framework that projects grid stress and reliability trends between 2020 and 2055 in the Western Interconnection of the United States. The framework integrates global to national energy-water-land dynamics with power plant siting and hourly grid operations modeling. We analyze future wholesale electricity price shocks and unserved energy events across eight scenarios spanning a range of population growth and economic change, generation mixes, and weather conditions. Our results show future grids with high percentage of non-renewable generation and strong economic growth are characterized by higher reliability and lower wholesale electricity prices than lower growth scenarios because of larger reliance on dispatchable generators and lower fossil fuel extraction costs. Scenarios with high percentage of renewable resources have lower median but more volatile wholesale electricity prices as well as more frequent and severe unserved energy events compared to scenarios relying more on dispatchable generators. These events occur because higher proportion of solar and wind energy causes net demand curves to deepen during midday (duck curves get progressively severe), exacerbating the challenge of meeting demand during summer evening peaks. This study suggests that robust and co-optimized transmission and energy storage planning could help maintain low wholesale electricity prices and high reliability levels in future electricity grids across uncertainties in generation mixes.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-05DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100248
Aron Bell , Liam Anthony Mannion , Mark Kelly , Robert Parker , Mohammad Reza Ghaani , Stephen Dooley
The life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) intensity of Power-to-Liquid (PtL) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) scenarios in Spain are evaluated using a specific, granular, and transparent modelling approach. Post combustion CO2 capture and direct air CO2 capture are considered, in addition to grid and renewable electricity sources. The mass and energy requirements of the PtL system are determined from a mass and energy conserved reaction mechanism and a comprehensive literature review. The SAF yield is constrained by its molecular composition, formulated to meet the physical property specifications for Fischer-Tropsch synthetic paraffinic kerosene (FT-SPK) in ASTM D7566 Annex 1. The results of the life cycle assessment (LCA) show large ranges in CO2e intensity of PtL SAF scenarios, from 11 to 101 gCO2e/MJ. The electricity emission factors at which the CO2e intensity of PtL SAFs meet the 70% reduction required under the ReFuelEU Aviation legislation are 112 – 168 gCO2e/kWh for direct air capture and post combustion capture of biogenic CO2. As the average EU grid is approximately 300 gCO2e/kWh, the use of renewable electricity (onsite or power purchase agreement) is therefore essential to achieve the 70% reduction. The carbon intensity of the Madrid to Dublin commercial flight route is analysed, per revenue-passenger-kilometre (RPK), as a specific use case with actual data of Ryanair Boeing 737-800 and 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Compared to the Science Based Targets 1.5°C limit of 3.3 gCO2/RPK, it is shown that sustainable aviation is challenging using PtL SAF, with a best case of 9 gCO2/RPK.
{"title":"Life cycle CO2e intensity of power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel scenarios and specific use cases","authors":"Aron Bell , Liam Anthony Mannion , Mark Kelly , Robert Parker , Mohammad Reza Ghaani , Stephen Dooley","doi":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent (CO<sub>2</sub>e) intensity of Power-to-Liquid (PtL) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) scenarios in Spain are evaluated using a specific, granular, and transparent modelling approach. Post combustion CO<sub>2</sub> capture and direct air CO<sub>2</sub> capture are considered, in addition to grid and renewable electricity sources. The mass and energy requirements of the PtL system are determined from a mass and energy conserved reaction mechanism and a comprehensive literature review. The SAF yield is constrained by its molecular composition, formulated to meet the physical property specifications for Fischer-Tropsch synthetic paraffinic kerosene (FT-SPK) in ASTM D7566 Annex 1. The results of the life cycle assessment (LCA) show large ranges in CO<sub>2</sub>e intensity of PtL SAF scenarios, from 11 to 101 gCO<sub>2</sub>e/MJ. The electricity emission factors at which the CO<sub>2</sub>e intensity of PtL SAFs meet the 70% reduction required under the ReFuelEU Aviation legislation are 112 – 168 gCO<sub>2</sub>e/kWh for direct air capture and post combustion capture of biogenic CO<sub>2</sub>. As the average EU grid is approximately 300 gCO<sub>2</sub>e/kWh, the use of renewable electricity (onsite or power purchase agreement) is therefore essential to achieve the 70% reduction. The carbon intensity of the Madrid to Dublin commercial flight route is analysed, per revenue-passenger-kilometre (RPK), as a specific use case with actual data of Ryanair Boeing 737-800 and 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Compared to the Science Based Targets 1.5°C limit of 3.3 gCO<sub>2</sub>/RPK, it is shown that sustainable aviation is challenging using PtL SAF, with a best case of 9 gCO<sub>2</sub>/RPK.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34615,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Energy","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100248"},"PeriodicalIF":13.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-03DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100247
Kailong Liu , Shiwen Zhao , Yu Wang , Kang Li , Jiayue Wang , Yaojie Sun , Qiuwei Wu , Qiao Peng
With the increasing demand for sustainable and clean energy, lithium-ion batteries have emerged as one of the most essential energy storage technologies. However, safety concerns have become a major bottleneck, significantly constraining their widespread deployment. This highlights the critical need for efficient fault diagnosis to ensure the safe and reliable operation of battery systems. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, in combination with advanced sensing technologies, have attracted growing attention for battery fault diagnosis and prognosis. Nevertheless, their full potential and broad applicability remain underexplored. This review provides a systematic analysis of the integration of AI methodologies with advanced sensors, emphasizing their capabilities for accurate fault detection and prediction, while also identifying key challenges and future research directions in this evolving field. The study begins by outlining common battery fault types and their underlying mechanisms, offering a foundational understanding of the associated complexities. It then introduces state-of-the-art AI techniques applied in fault diagnosis. Then, recent advances in combining AI with advanced sensing technologies for battery diagnostics are examined. Finally, the limitations of current approaches are discussed, and promising directions are proposed to facilitate the development of intelligent, scalable, and robust fault diagnosis frameworks for lithium-ion battery systems.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100246
Xiao Wang , Xue Liu , Xuyuan Kang , Fu Xiao , Da Yan
Integrating domain knowledge into artificial intelligence models is increasingly recognized as essential for improving energy storage system control based on load predictions. Commonly used accuracy metrics for load prediction models, such as mean absolute percentage error, coefficient of variation of mean absolute error, and coefficient of variation of root mean squared error, are not monotonically correlated with final control performance; in other words, the model with the highest prediction accuracy does not necessarily yield optimal control outcomes. This study introduces a dynamically weighted error metric, which incorporates the attributes of energy storage systems and the temporal dynamics of prediction-based control by leveraging domain knowledge from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. The proposed dynamically weighted error metric enhanced the selection of load prediction models, and these models reduced the operating cost of six energy storage systems by up to 6.5 % compared to those using traditional prediction accuracy metrics. The scalability of dynamically weighted error metric was further validated across 10 energy storage capacities and 18 Time-of-Use tariffs in the six building cases, achieving 93.9 %–97.2 % of the ideal cost reductions and outperforming traditional metrics (86.4 %–95.4 %). The applicability of dynamically weighted error metric to common energy storage systems is discussed and confirmed. Additionally, a web-based tool was developed to facilitate dynamically weighted error calculation in practical applications. This study demonstrates that incorporating domain knowledge through dynamic accuracy weighting evidently enhances the whole-process performance of artificial intelligence in energy storage system control.
{"title":"Prediction-based control of energy storage systems using dynamic accuracy weighting","authors":"Xiao Wang , Xue Liu , Xuyuan Kang , Fu Xiao , Da Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100246","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100246","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrating domain knowledge into artificial intelligence models is increasingly recognized as essential for improving energy storage system control based on load predictions. Commonly used accuracy metrics for load prediction models, such as mean absolute percentage error, coefficient of variation of mean absolute error, and coefficient of variation of root mean squared error, are not monotonically correlated with final control performance; in other words, the model with the highest prediction accuracy does not necessarily yield optimal control outcomes. This study introduces a dynamically weighted error metric, which incorporates the attributes of energy storage systems and the temporal dynamics of prediction-based control by leveraging domain knowledge from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. The proposed dynamically weighted error metric enhanced the selection of load prediction models, and these models reduced the operating cost of six energy storage systems by up to 6.5 % compared to those using traditional prediction accuracy metrics. The scalability of dynamically weighted error metric was further validated across 10 energy storage capacities and 18 Time-of-Use tariffs in the six building cases, achieving 93.9 %–97.2 % of the ideal cost reductions and outperforming traditional metrics (86.4 %–95.4 %). The applicability of dynamically weighted error metric to common energy storage systems is discussed and confirmed. Additionally, a web-based tool was developed to facilitate dynamically weighted error calculation in practical applications. This study demonstrates that incorporating domain knowledge through dynamic accuracy weighting evidently enhances the whole-process performance of artificial intelligence in energy storage system control.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34615,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Energy","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100246"},"PeriodicalIF":13.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future power supply will be dominated by solar and wind energy with near zero variable costs. Hence, wholesale market prices could frequently drop near zero. We use a sector-coupled power system model to optimise scenarios of a fully decarbonised European electricity market with a high penetration of variable renewables. Resulting electricity prices exceed near zero levels throughout most hours of the year as they are predominantly determined by the opportunity costs of cross-sectoral demand, particularly electrolysers. Consequently, even in markets with a high penetration of variable renewables, electricity prices continue to be driven by fuel costs, as they determine the opportunity costs of a price-setting demand. We find market actors in different sectors to be heterogeneously exposed to associated price risks. Price-responsive electricity demand can mitigate cost increases, while investors in variable renewables and inflexible electricity consumers are similarly exposed to revenue and cost risks. Thus, they could mutually benefit from risk-mitigating instruments. Conversely, our results indicate that hydrogen producers and consumers do not share such a common interest as hydrogen consumers’ final energy consumption costs vary more across scenarios and countries than electrolysers’ profits due to their role as price-setters.
{"title":"Price formation and intersectoral distributional effects in a fully decarbonised European electricity market","authors":"Silke Johanndeiter , Niina Helistö , Juha Kiviluoma , Valentin Bertsch","doi":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Future power supply will be dominated by solar and wind energy with near zero variable costs. Hence, wholesale market prices could frequently drop near zero. We use a sector-coupled power system model to optimise scenarios of a fully decarbonised European electricity market with a high penetration of variable renewables. Resulting electricity prices exceed near zero levels throughout most hours of the year as they are predominantly determined by the opportunity costs of cross-sectoral demand, particularly electrolysers. Consequently, even in markets with a high penetration of variable renewables, electricity prices continue to be driven by fuel costs, as they determine the opportunity costs of a price-setting demand. We find market actors in different sectors to be heterogeneously exposed to associated price risks. Price-responsive electricity demand can mitigate cost increases, while investors in variable renewables and inflexible electricity consumers are similarly exposed to revenue and cost risks. Thus, they could mutually benefit from risk-mitigating instruments. Conversely, our results indicate that hydrogen producers and consumers do not share such a common interest as hydrogen consumers’ final energy consumption costs vary more across scenarios and countries than electrolysers’ profits due to their role as price-setters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34615,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Energy","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100245"},"PeriodicalIF":13.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145269142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100238
Zhenhua Zhang , Ziheng Zhu , Jessica A. Gordon , Xi Lu , Da Zhang , Michael R. Davidson
Acute temporal impacts and subnational limitations can hinder a country’s decarbonization pathway, despite national planning efforts. China, as the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, has announced an ambitious climate policy goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, which will require an unprecedented scale-up of low-carbon energy technologies. China’s variable renewable energy (VRE) deployment is historically imbalanced with large geographic concentrations driven by resource endowment and institutional heterogeneities. If continued, this pattern can run into deployment limits and exacerbate challenges associated with socio-economic benefits distribution, threatening the ability to timely integrate VRE. We develop a capacity expansion model with grid operational detail and high spatial resolution to examine decadal pathways to carbon neutrality by 2060 considering localized and temporal impacts. Over these four decades, we find that all regions will increase deployment rates of renewable energy, first driven by the use of high-quality resources, and later by coal retirement and electricity demand growth. The share of provinces with high deployment pressure, where deployment requirements exceed historical rates, increases from around 45% to 100% by the final decade. If carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not available, maximum annual average deployment rates will increase by 33% and occur a decade earlier. A more stringent 1.5 °C emission target leads to more acute temporal and spatial deployment pressures in the first decade, with VRE concentrated in regions with high-quality resources and demand centers and a doubling of new transmission capacity in the first decade. Effective national and subnational policy support is necessary to coordinate VRE deployment and facilitate transitions in impacted regions.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.adapen.2025.100244
Lanxin Li , Xianze Ao , Qiangyan Hao , Meiling Liu , Xiansheng Li , Kegui Lu , Chongwen Zou , Bin Zhao , Gang Pei
Accurately estimating atmospheric downward longwave radiation is critical for applications ranging from radiative cooling to building energy efficiency. The main challenge lies in its spectral variability, which depends strongly on sky conditions such as humidity and cloud cover. In this study, we propose a Black–Gray body atmospheric radiation model that divides the infrared spectrum into three regions, treating the atmosphere as a graybody in the 8–13 μm and a blackbody outside this band. The model integrates locally measured radiative power to dynamically capture temporal and spatial variations. Validation experiments were conducted using radiative cooling processes in three Chinese cities (Hefei, Lhasa, and Haikou) under different climates and weather conditions. The BG model consistently predicted radiative cooling power with high accuracy, with mean absolute percentage errors generally below 10 %, outperforming both the effective sky emissivity method and MODTRAN-based predictions. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of band-resolved atmospheric energy databases, analogous to solar radiation databases, and demonstrate it with a full-year case study in Hefei. This work provides a new modeling framework that enhances precision and enables broader applications in energy systems, climate studies, and environmental design.
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