Pub Date : 2024-05-06DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad422e
Eleanor M Hennessy and Inês M L Azevedo
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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Pub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad46da
Nadia S. Ouedraogo, J. Kilolo
The global shift towards low-carbon economies and societies is expected to result in a substantial surge in the demand for critical minerals. Endowed with at least a fifth of the world’s reserves in a dozen minerals, Africa can play a pivotal role in facilitating the global transition away from fossil fuels. In this paper, we argue that, for this to happen, Africa needs to act now to convert its natural assets into sustainable comparative advantages for a resource-based industrialisation. This will require proactive measures to ensure strict compliance with the highest standards of governance and transparency, as well as to uphold social values such as safeguarding basic rights of affected individuals and communities and sound environmental management to avoid falling into a new resource curse. This also requires a renewed global raw material diplomacy in which Africa manages the geopolitics of critical minerals, identifying strategic global alliances to unleash economic potential, create local content in the mining sector, develop domestic productive capacity, and foster sustainable development.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-25DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad43aa
V. Fthenakis, Pei Xu, Zhuoran Zhang, Kurban A. Sitterley, Abdiel Lugo, Huiyao Wang, Sarada Kuravi, Krishna Kota, Nikhil Dani, A. Atia, Parthiv Kurup, Ariel Miara
Production of fresh water from desalination of the abundant saline water on the planet is increasingly considered as a climate change adoption measure. Yet, there are challenges associated with the cost and environmental impact of desalination. Effective integration of solar energy generation and freshwater production can address both issues. This review article highlights recent key advances in such integration achieved in a joint-research university-national laboratory partnership under the auspices of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and parallel efforts world-wide. First, an overview of current and emerging desalination technologies and associated pretreatment and brine management technologies that together can result in zero-liquid-discharge (ZLD) systems is presented and their technological readiness levels are evaluated. Then advanced modeling techniques and new software platforms that enable optimization of solar-desalination applications with the dual objective of cost and environmental impact minimization are discussed.
{"title":"Review of solar-enabled desalination and implications for zero-liquid-discharge applications","authors":"V. Fthenakis, Pei Xu, Zhuoran Zhang, Kurban A. Sitterley, Abdiel Lugo, Huiyao Wang, Sarada Kuravi, Krishna Kota, Nikhil Dani, A. Atia, Parthiv Kurup, Ariel Miara","doi":"10.1088/2516-1083/ad43aa","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ad43aa","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Production of fresh water from desalination of the abundant saline water on the planet is increasingly considered as a climate change adoption measure. Yet, there are challenges associated with the cost and environmental impact of desalination. Effective integration of solar energy generation and freshwater production can address both issues. This review article highlights recent key advances in such integration achieved in a joint-research university-national laboratory partnership under the auspices of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and parallel efforts world-wide. First, an overview of current and emerging desalination technologies and associated pretreatment and brine management technologies that together can result in zero-liquid-discharge (ZLD) systems is presented and their technological readiness levels are evaluated. Then advanced modeling techniques and new software platforms that enable optimization of solar-desalination applications with the dual objective of cost and environmental impact minimization are discussed.","PeriodicalId":501831,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Energy","volume":"7 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140654167","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 : 2024-04-23DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad4250
Marija Vukovic, Marie Syre Wiig, G. Benatto, Espen Olsen, I. Burud
It is predicted that the photovoltaic energy conversion will be the largest installed power capacity by 2027. The least costly option for new electricity generation in many of the world’s countries will be the utility-scale solar photovoltaic electricity generation. Accurate monitoring of solar plants for localizing and detecting faults is expected to be one of the critical tasks facing the energy industry. Imaging of photovoltaic modules for the purpose of fault detection can be more efficient and accurate compared to measurements of electrical parameters. Different spectral regions provide different types of information about a faulty module. Detection of photoluminescence, that is, radiation emitted upon band-to-band recombination after charge carrier excitation with an illumination source, has shown a great potential in the laboratory setting. In the recent years, the first approaches in the outdoor setting have been conducted on silicon modules with the Sun and a LED module as excitation source. The present study sums up the different methods for outdoor photoluminescence imaging and emphasizes their differences regarding filtering of the reflected light from the photoluminescence signal. The different types of photoluminescence images obtained from each method and the image processing algorithms are described. Finally, the interpretation of the different types of photoluminescence images is addressed.
据预测，到 2027 年，光伏能源转换将成为最大的电力装机容量。在世界许多国家，公用事业规模的太阳能光伏发电将是成本最低的新发电选择。为定位和检测故障而对太阳能发电厂进行精确监控预计将成为能源行业面临的关键任务之一。与电气参数测量相比，以故障检测为目的的光伏模块成像更为高效和准确。不同的光谱区域可提供有关故障模块的不同类型信息。光致发光是电荷载流子被照明源激发后在带间重组时发出的辐射，其检测在实验室环境中显示出巨大的潜力。近年来，人们首次在室外环境中利用太阳和 LED 模块作为激发光源，对硅模块进行了研究。本研究总结了户外光致发光成像的不同方法，并强调了它们在过滤光致发光信号反射光方面的差异。还介绍了每种方法获得的不同类型的光致发光图像以及图像处理算法。最后，还讨论了不同类型光致发光图像的解读问题。
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Low-income countries have long benefited from household biogas plants for extracting clean energy and fertilizer. Despite the popularity, such ordinary plants do not have heating systems and suffer lower biogas production in cold regions or cold winters. This paper attempts a comprehensive review on research and development of household biogas technology in cold climate. This review specifically highlights the influence of temperature on biogas production, and technologies and recent advances in psychrophilic biogas production. Such measures are introduction of adapted inoculums, maneuvering operational parameters like hydraulic retention time (HRT) and organic loading rate (OLR), co-digestion approach and additives and digester designs. In addition to that, the review portrays adoption of low-cost heating arrangements including construction of greenhouse over bio-digesters, digester insulation, and integration of solar heating is crucial to enhance biogas production. Furthermore, this review identified gaps in the operation of bio-digesters under psychrophilic temperature in low-income countries and recommends operational consistencies in full scale psychrophilic biogas plants through development of standards, operational guidelines, and users' trainings.
{"title":"Household biogas technology in cold climate of low-income countries: A review on sustainable technologies for accelerating biogas generation","authors":"S. P. Lohani, Taniya Kumari Shaw, Sujesh Shrestha, Bipasyana Dhungana, Navin Kumar Jha, Haoran Chen, Abeer Mohamed, Shikun Cheng, Smita Raghuvanshi","doi":"10.1088/2516-1083/ad407f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ad407f","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Low-income countries have long benefited from household biogas plants for extracting clean energy and fertilizer. Despite the popularity, such ordinary plants do not have heating systems and suffer lower biogas production in cold regions or cold winters. This paper attempts a comprehensive review on research and development of household biogas technology in cold climate. This review specifically highlights the influence of temperature on biogas production, and technologies and recent advances in psychrophilic biogas production. Such measures are introduction of adapted inoculums, maneuvering operational parameters like hydraulic retention time (HRT) and organic loading rate (OLR), co-digestion approach and additives and digester designs. In addition to that, the review portrays adoption of low-cost heating arrangements including construction of greenhouse over bio-digesters, digester insulation, and integration of solar heating is crucial to enhance biogas production. Furthermore, this review identified gaps in the operation of bio-digesters under psychrophilic temperature in low-income countries and recommends operational consistencies in full scale psychrophilic biogas plants through development of standards, operational guidelines, and users' trainings.","PeriodicalId":501831,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Energy","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140686605","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 : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad3f6b
Noriko Sata, Rémi Costa
Protonic ceramic cells (PCC) offer variety of potential applications for electrochemical energy conversion, however a lot of challenges remain in the development of PCCs for industrial scale manufacturing processes. As it was successfully demonstrated for the solid oxide cells, metal supported architecture is a good alternative for PCCs with many attractive advantages in terms of stabilities in operation and reduction of raw critical materials. In this review, proposed architectures, component materials and processing options are summarized. The challenges and prospects are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad3f6a
G. Hawker, Keith Bell, C. MacIver, Janusz Bialek
Extreme weather events, such as high winds, storms, flooding and temperature extremes, are a major cause of disruption to the supply of electricity to consumers. System Operators (SOs) are responsible for ensuring stable real-time operation of large-scale power networks, and will act to prevent adverse impacts of such events on consumer supply, contain the extent of supply interruptions that do occur, and restore supply to affected consumers in an efficient and timely manner. SOs will also generally be involved in some way in the long-term planning of the transmission network and generation capacity required to ensure future resilience. In this paper we review some of the strategies adopted by SOs across the globe in ensuring high levels of reliability and resilience to extreme weather, with reference to learning generated from specific recent events. In the face of the potential for both the frequency of such events and for their consequent impacts to increase in the future, we recommend that regulatory control of investment in networks is informed by quantified understanding of the climate-energy interface, including assessment of the potential frequency and impacts of future weather events and shared learning from events experienced by different operators. The statutory role of utilities should include robust assessment of future weather-related risks and appropriate investment in their asset resilience, as well as assisting in the preparedness of supporting agencies to mitigate the impacts of weather-related disturbances on energy consumers.
{"title":"Management of extreme weather impacts on electricity grids: An international review","authors":"G. Hawker, Keith Bell, C. MacIver, Janusz Bialek","doi":"10.1088/2516-1083/ad3f6a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ad3f6a","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Extreme weather events, such as high winds, storms, flooding and temperature extremes, are a major cause of disruption to the supply of electricity to consumers. System Operators (SOs) are responsible for ensuring stable real-time operation of large-scale power networks, and will act to prevent adverse impacts of such events on consumer supply, contain the extent of supply interruptions that do occur, and restore supply to affected consumers in an efficient and timely manner. SOs will also generally be involved in some way in the long-term planning of the transmission network and generation capacity required to ensure future resilience. In this paper we review some of the strategies adopted by SOs across the globe in ensuring high levels of reliability and resilience to extreme weather, with reference to learning generated from specific recent events. In the face of the potential for both the frequency of such events and for their consequent impacts to increase in the future, we recommend that regulatory control of investment in networks is informed by quantified understanding of the climate-energy interface, including assessment of the potential frequency and impacts of future weather events and shared learning from events experienced by different operators. The statutory role of utilities should include robust assessment of future weather-related risks and appropriate investment in their asset resilience, as well as assisting in the preparedness of supporting agencies to mitigate the impacts of weather-related disturbances on energy consumers.","PeriodicalId":501831,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Energy","volume":"48 s235","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140694835","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 : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad3b60
Laura Castro-Diaz, O. Nwadiaru, Anais Roque, Nicholas Caverly, Alison Kenner, Krista Harper
This perspective explores the imperative role of participatory research (PR) in advancing energy justice. We argue that using participatory research methods and principles at the intersection of energy and equity is a critical research advantage. Here, we contend that PR frameworks are integral to bridging the gap between energy justice theory and practice, emphasizing the need to move beyond decontextualized principles to address specific injustices related to race, class, gender, and coloniality. We present three energy justice case studies that used participatory approaches in diverse contexts: Amazon, Brazil; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; and Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. These cases showcase the versatility of PR methods in understanding and addressing unique energy challenges within local communities. We highlight guiding principles of PR, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing community needs, respecting diverse expertise, building trust, designing for transparency and accountability, choosing appropriate methods, adapting and being flexible, and aiming for long-term collaboration. Lastly, our perspective suggests future directions for participatory energy justice research, including the potential for PR to inform multiscalar policy, practice, and advocacy. We underscore the importance of collaborations between university researchers and community organizations through citizen science, emphasizing the need for diverse disciplinary perspectives to effectively address complex energy justice challenges.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad371e
S. Pfenninger
Energy system models do not represent natural processes but are assumption-laden representations of complex engineered systems, making validation practically impossible. Post-normal science argues that in such cases, it is important to communicate embedded values and uncertainties, rather than establishing whether a model is “true” or “correct”. Here, we examine how open energy modelling can achieve this aim by thinking about what “a model” is and how it can be broken up into manageable parts. Collaboration on such building blocks – whether they are primarily code or primarily data – could become a bigger focus area for the energy modelling community. This collaboration may also include harmonisation and intercomparison of building blocks, rather than full models themselves. The aim is understandability, which will make life easier for modellers themselves (by making it easier to develop and apply problem-specific models) as well as for users far away from the modelling process (by making it easier to understand what is qualitatively happening in a model - without putting undue burden on the modellers to document every detail).
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1088/2516-1083/ad371f
Kelly (Kailai) V Thambimuthu
A perspective on the history of Carbon Capture and Storage, its challenges and role in the transition to a net zero energy system pathway.
透视碳捕集与封存的历史、挑战及其在向净零能源系统过渡过程中的作用。
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