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Regional Energy Demand Responses To Climate Change: Methodology And Application To The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts 总被引：1，自引：2，他引：1
Climate is a major determinant of energy demand. Changes in climate may alter energy demand as well as energy demand patterns.
This study investigates the implications of climate change for energy demand under the hypothesis that impacts are scale dependent
due to region-specific climatic variables, infrastructure, socioeconomic, and energy use profiles.
In this analysis we explore regional energy demand responses to climate change by assessing temperature-sensitive energy demand
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The study employs a two-step estimation and modeling procedure. The first step evaluates
the historic temperature sensitivity of residential and commercial demand for electricity and heating fuels, using a degree-day
methodology. We find that when controlling for socioeconomic factors, degree-day variables have significant explanatory power
in describing historic changes in residential and commercial energy demands. In the second step, we assess potential future
energy demand responses to scenarios of climate change. Model results are based on alternative climate scenarios that were
specifically derived for the region on the basis of local climatological data, coupled with regional information from available
global climate models. We find notable changes with respect to overall energy consumption by, and energy mix of the residential
and commercial sectors in the region. On the basis of our findings, we identify several methodological issues relevant to
the development of climate change impact assessments of energy demand. 相似文献
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This article discusses how renewable and low-carbon energies can serve as mitigation options of climate change in China’s power sector. Our study is based on scenarios developed in PowerPlan, a bottom-up model simulating a countries’ power sector and its emissions. We first adjusted the model to China’s present-day economy and power sector. We then developed different scenarios based on story lines for possible future developments in China. We simulated China’s carbon-based electricity production system of today and possible future transitions towards a low-carbon system relying on renewable and low-carbon energies. In our analysis, we compare the business-as-usual scenarios with more sustainable energy scenarios. We found that by increasing the share of renewable and nuclear energies to different levels, between 17% and 57% of all CO2 emissions from the power sector could be avoided by 2030 compared to the business-as-usual scenario. We also found that electricity generation costs increase when more sustainable power plants are installed. As a conclusion, China has two options: choosing for high climate change mitigation and high costs or choosing for moderate climate change mitigation and moderate costs. In case high climate change mitigation will be chosen, development assistance is likely to be needed to cover the costs. 相似文献
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本文利用2015—2017年溪洛渡电站逐日入库及出库流量、逐日电站出力资料、广东逐日用电负荷数据及NCEP逐日再分析资料，针对溪洛渡右岸电站汛期弃水严重、枯期水量不足，电站发电与广东用电需求存在矛盾的几种生产情景，划分为供不应求型、供过于求型和非典型供过于求型3种类型，选取典型个例分析不同类型对应的环流形势和天气成因，并提出今后溪洛渡电站调度的建议。结果表明：每年5、6月，广东常受副热带高压控制，用电需求较大，而宜宾以上流域大多受一致的偏西或西南暖湿气流控制，冷空气活动较弱，不利于产生大范围降水，使得溪洛渡电站发电能力与广东用电需求多呈供不应求型；7—9月，宜宾以上流域多受高原槽及切变线影响，有利于出现明显降水，电站具备满发能力，而华南一般有低涡切变或台风活动，有利于广东出现降水，由于不受副高控制且出现降水，广东用电需求降低，导致出现供过于求型；如广东在副热带高压控制之下，用电需求旺盛，但溪洛渡右岸具备满发能力而出现弃水的情景，往往是因为西南地区降水总体较强，其他水电站加大出力，而电网送出受限等多方面因素影响，导致电网对溪洛渡右岸的电能需求减少，即出现非典型供过于求型。在实际发电生产中可根据天气环流形势提前研判，更加有针对性地开展水库调度、优化电站运行，增加汛期水电电能的有效消纳以及水能资源充分利用。 相似文献
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I. Mouratiadou M. Bevione D. L. Bijl L. Drouet M. Hejazi S. Mima M. Pehl G. Luderer 《Climatic change》2018,147(1-2):91-106
This study assesses the effects of deep electricity decarbonisation and shifts in the choice of power plant cooling technologies on global electricity water demand, using a suite of five integrated assessment models. We find that electricity sector decarbonisation results in co-benefits for water resources primarily due to the phase-out of water-intensive coal-based thermoelectric power generation, although these co-benefits vary substantially across decarbonisation scenarios. Wind and solar photovoltaic power represent a win-win option for both climate and water resources, but further expansion of nuclear or fossil- and biomass-fuelled power plants with carbon capture and storage may result in increased pressures on the water environment. Further to these results, the paper provides insights on the most crucial factors of uncertainty with regards to future estimates of water demand. These estimates varied substantially across models in scenarios where the effects of decarbonisation on the electricity mix were less clear-cut. Future thermal and water efficiency improvements of power generation technologies and demand-side energy efficiency improvements were also identified to be important factors of uncertainty. We conclude that in order to ensure positive effects of decarbonisation on water resources, climate policy should be combined with technology-specific energy and/or water policies. 相似文献
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Assessing climate change impacts on the Iberian power system using a coupled water-power model 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Silvio J. Pereira-Cardenal Henrik Madsen Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen Niels Riegels Roar Jensen Birger Mo Ivar Wangensteen Peter Bauer-Gottwein 《Climatic change》2014,126(3-4):351-364
Climate change is expected to have a negative impact on the power system of the Iberian Peninsula; changes in river runoff are expected to reduce hydropower generation, while higher temperatures are expected to increase summer electricity demand, when water resources are already limited. However, these impacts have not yet been evaluated at the peninsular level. We coupled a hydrological model with a power market model to study three impacts of climate change on the current Iberian power system: changes in hydropower production caused by changes in precipitation and temperature, changes in temporal patterns of electricity demand caused by temperature changes, and changes in irrigation water use caused by temperature and precipitation changes. A stochastic dynamic programming approach was used to develop operating rules for the integrated system given hydrological uncertainty. We found that changes in precipitation will reduce runoff, decrease hydropower production (with accompanying increases in thermal generation), and increase irrigation water use, while higher temperatures will shift power demand from winter to summer months. The combined impact of these effects will generally make it more challenging to balance agricultural, power, and environmental objectives in the operation of Iberian reservoirs, though some impacts could be mitigated by better alignment between temporal patterns of irrigation and power demands. 相似文献
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The nuclear energy response for mitigating global climate change across 18 participating models of the EMF27 study is investigated. Diverse perspectives on the future role of nuclear power in the global energy system are evident in the broad range of nuclear power contributions from participating models of the study. In the Baseline scenario without climate policy, nuclear electricity generation and shares span 0–66 EJ/year and 0–25 % in 2100 for all models, with a median nuclear electricity generation of 39 EJ/year (1,389 GWe at 90 % capacity factor) and median share of 9 %. The role of nuclear energy increased under the climate policy scenarios. The median of nuclear energy use across all models doubled in the 450 ppm CO2e scenario with a nuclear electricity generation of 67 EJ/year (2,352 GWe at 90 % capacity factor) and share of 17 % in 2100. The broad range of nuclear electricity generation (11–214 EJ/year) and shares (2–38 %) in 2100 of the 450 ppm CO2e scenario reflect differences in the technology choice behavior, technology assumptions and competitiveness of low carbon technologies. Greater clarification of nuclear fuel cycle issues and risk factors associated with nuclear energy use are necessary for understanding the nuclear deployment constraints imposed in models and for improving the assessment of the nuclear energy potential in addressing climate change. 相似文献
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Aluminium is an energy intensive material with an environmental footprint strongly dependent on the electricity mix consumed by the smelting process. This study models prospective environmental impacts of primary aluminium production according to different integrated assessment modeling scenarios building on Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their climate change mitigation scenarios. Results project a global average carbon intensity ranging between 8.6 and 18.0 kg CO2 eq/kg in 2100, compared to 18.3 kg CO2 eq/kg at present, that could be further reduced under mitigation scenarios. Co-benefits with other environmental indicators are observed. Scaling aluminium production impacts to the global demand shows total emission between 1250 and 1590 Gt CO2 eq for baseline scenarios by 2050 while absolute decoupling is only achievable with stringent climate policy changing drastically the electricity mix. Achieving larger emission reductions will require circular strategies that go beyond primary material production itself and involve other stakeholders along the aluminium value chain. 相似文献
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Hydropower is the dominant renewable energy source to date, providing over two-thirds of all renewable electricity globally. For countries with significant hydropower potential, the technology is expected to play a major role in the energy transition needed to meet nationally determined contributions (NDCs) for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions as laid out in the Paris Agreement. For the Republic of Ecuador, large hydropower is currently considered as the main means for attaining energy security, reducing electricity prices and mitigating GHG emissions in the long-term. However, uncertainty around the impacts of climate change, investment cost overruns and restrictions to untapped resources may challenge the future deployment of hydropower and consequently impact decarbonization efforts for Ecuador’s power sector. To address these questions, a partial equilibrium energy system optimization model for Ecuador (TIMES-EC) is used to simulate alternative electricity capacity expansion scenarios up to 2050. Results show that the share of total electricity supplied by hydropower in Ecuador might vary significantly between 53% to 81% by 2050. Restricting large hydropower due to social-environmental constraints can cause a fourfold increase in cumulative emissions compared to NDC implied levels, while a 25% reduction of hydropower availability due to climate change would cause cumulative emissions to double. In comparison, a more diversified power system (although more expensive) which limits the share of large hydropower and natural gas in favour of other renewables could achieve the expected NDC emission levels. These insights underscore the critical importance of undertaking detailed whole energy system analyses to assess the long-term challenges for hydropower deployment and the trade-offs among power system configuration, system costs and expected GHG emissions in hydropower-dependent countries, states and territories.
Key policy insights
Ecuador’s hydropower-based NDC is highly vulnerable to the occurrence of a dry climate scenario and restrictions to deployment of large hydropower in the Amazon region.
Given Ecuador’s seasonal runoff pattern, fossil-fuel or renewable thermoelectric backup will always be required, whatever the amount of hydropower installed.
Ecuador’s NDC target for the power sector is achievable without the deployment of large hydropower infrastructure, through a more diversified portfolio with non-hydro renewables.
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California’s hydropower system is composed of high and low elevation power plants. There are more than 150 high-elevation power plants, at elevations above 1,000 feet (300 m). Most have modest reservoir storage capacities, but supply roughly 74% of California’s in-state hydropower. The expected shift of runoff peak from spring to winter due to climate warming, resulting in snowpack reduction and increased snowmelt, might have important effects on power generation and revenues in California. The large storage capacities at low-elevation power plants provide flexibility to operations of these units under climate warming. However, with climate warming, the adaptability of the high-elevation hydropower system is in question as this system was designed to take advantage of snowpack, a natural reservoir. With so many high-elevation hydropower plants in California, estimation of climate warming effects by conventional simulation or optimization methods would be tedious and expensive. An Energy-Based Hydropower Optimization Model (EBHOM) was developed to facilitate practical climate change and other low-resolution system-wide hydropower studies, based on the historical generation data of 137 high-elevation hydropower plants for which the data were complete for 14 years. Employing recent historical hourly energy prices, the model was used to explore energy generation in California for three climate warming scenarios (dry warming, wet warming, and warming-only) over 14 years, representing a range of hydrologic conditions. The system is sensitive to the quantity and timing of inflows. While dry warming and warming-only climate changes reduce average hydropower revenues, wet warming could increase revenue. Re-operation of available storage and generation capacities help compensate for snowpack losses to some extent. Storage capacity expansion and to a lesser extent generation capacity expansion both increase revenues, although such expansions might not be cost-effective. 相似文献
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We compare changes in low birth weight and child malnutrition in 13 African countries under projected climate change versus socio-economic development scenarios. Climate scenarios are created by linking surface temperature gradients with declines in seasonal rainfall sea along with warming values of 1 °C and 2 °C. Socio-economic scenarios are developed by assigning regionally specific changes in access to household electricity and mother's education. Using these scenarios, in combination with established models of children's health, we investigate and compare the changes in predicted health outcomes. We find that the negative effects of warming and drying on child stunting could be mitigated by positive development trends associated with increasing mothers’ educational status and household access to electricity. We find less potential for these trends to mitigate how warming and drying trends impact birth weights. In short, under warming and drying, the risk of more malnourished children is greater than the risk of more children with low birth weights, but increases in child malnutrition could be averted in regions that increase access to educational resources and basic infrastructure. 相似文献
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为理清应对气候变化约束下推动电力系统转型中面临的挑战和潜力,形成有效精准抓手,研究从气候变化约束对电力需求的影响出发,系统梳理温升目标下电力系统转型路径相关研究,并通过综述在低碳转型过程中与电力系统密切相关的煤电退出问题、可再生能源并网问题以及电网优化问题提出相应政策建议。研究发现,温升约束下煤电规模需快速下降,可再生能源发电大规模并网及远距离输送将成为最显著的特征,气电将承担比现在更重大的责任,核电需抛开争议加速发展。加快完善市场化机制、严控煤电规模、着力提升能效、统筹加强灵活性资源管理以及优化跨区负荷管理应成为监管部门重点推进的方向。 相似文献
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The Government of Botswana has pledged a nationally determined contribution (NDC) as a commitment to the Paris Agreement. For the power sector, the NDC states that the government expects renewable energy (RE) to meet 25% of peak electricity demand by 2030. However, due to high initial cost of RE technologies, the government plans to maintain a coal-based power system in the future. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine Botswana’s national plan from an economic perspective, using scenario and cost analysis, to explore the possibility of the power sector’s low carbon transition in the light of Botswana’s NDC. Five scenarios are designed to reflect a range of investment cost changes of RE technologies. While most scenarios only achieve 19% (P3, P4 and P5) and 54% (P6) of the NDC’s power sector target, the P7 scenario far exceeds the goal by achieving 188% of the NDC target. Furthermore, as the difference of levelized cost of electricity among the scenarios is minimal, the P7 scenario is the most attractive pathway for the government. Even for other scenarios, the government should still deploy the suggested capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) as it is both economically and socially beneficial in the long term. However, in these cases, the government’s political will to meet the NDC’s power sector target and to promote the solar PV industry will be critical in designing future power sector policies.
Key policy insights
Model results show coal as the cheapest resource for electricity generation in Botswana up to 2030, but the cost competitiveness of solar photovoltaic (PV) against coal will continue to increase over time.
It is economically and socially beneficial to adjust the current national plan and substitute some share of coal with solar PV in the future energy mix.
Government support is critical in achieving the power sector’s NDC target, as cost reduction of solar PV alone does not guarantee success.
Encouraging independent power producers (IPP) with financial support mechanisms would be a suitable business model for developing the renewable energy industry.
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This paper evaluated the impacts of climate change mitigation technology options on CO2 emission reductions and the effects of model representations regarding renewable intermittency on the assessment of reduction by using a world energy systems model. First, different diffusion scenarios for carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), nuclear power, and wind power and solar PV are selected from EMF27 scenarios to analyze their impacts on CO2 emission reductions. These technologies are important for reducing CO2 intensity of electricity, and the impacts of their diffusion levels on mitigation costs are significant, according to the analyses. Availability of CCS in particular, among the three kinds of technologies, has a large impact on the marginal CO2 abatement cost. In order to analyze effects of model representations regarding renewables intermittency, four different representations are assumed within the model. A simplistic model representation that does not take into consideration the intermittency of wind power and solar PV evaluates larger contributions of the energy sources than those evaluated by a model representation that takes intermittency into consideration. Appropriate consideration of renewables intermittency within global energy systems models will be important for realistic evaluations of climate change mitigation scenarios. 相似文献
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Climate change tends to negatively affect the power sector, inter alia, by causing cooling problems in power plants and impairing the water supply required for hydropower generation. In the future, when global warming is expected to increase, autonomous adaptation to climate change via international electricity markets inducing reallocations of power generation may not be sufficient to prevent supply disruptions anymore. Furthermore, the consequent changes of supply patterns and electricity prices might cause an undesirable redistribution of wealth both between individual power suppliers and between suppliers and consumers. This study ascertains changes in European power supply patterns and electricity prices caused by on-going global warming as well as the associated redistribution of wealth for different climate change scenarios. The focus of the analysis is on short-term effects. Our results confirm that autonomous adaptation in the power sector should be complemented by planned public adaptation in order to preserve energy security and to prevent undesired distributional effects. 相似文献
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Study on the Impacts of Climate Change on China's Agriculture 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This paper measures the economic impacts of climate change on China's agriculture based on the Ricardian model. By using county-level cross-sectional data on agricultural net revenue, climate, and other economic and geographical data for 1275 agriculture dominated counties, we find that under most climate change scenarios both higher temperature and more precipitation would have an overall positive impact on China's agriculture. However, the impacts vary seasonally and regionally. Autumn effect is the most positive, but spring effect is the most negative. Applying the model to five climate scenarios in the year 2050 shows that the East, the Central part, the South, the northern part of the Northeast, and the Plateau would benefit from climate change, but the Southwest, the Northwest and the southern part of the Northeast may be negatively affected. In the North, most scenarios show that they may benefit from climate change. In summary, all of China would benefit from climate change in most scenarios. 相似文献
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In the Arkansas River Basin in southeastern Colorado, surface irrigation provides most of the water required for agriculture.
Consequently, the region’s future could be significantly affected if climate change impacts the amount of water available
for irrigation. A methodology to model the expected impacts of climate change on irrigation water demand in the region is
described. The Integrated Decision Support Consumptive Use model, which accounts for spatial and temporal variability in evapotranspiration
and precipitation, is used in conjunction with two climate scenarios from the Vegetation-Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project.
The two scenarios were extracted and scaled down from two general circulation models (GCMs), the HAD from the Hadley Centre
for Climate Prediction and Research and the CCC from the Canadian Climate Centre. The results show significant changes in
the water demands of crops due to climate change. The HAD and CCC climate change scenarios both predict an increase in water
demand. However, the projections of the two GCMs concerning the water available for irrigation differ significantly, reflecting
the large degree of uncertainty concerning what the future impacts of climate change might be in the study region. As new
or updated predictions become available, the methodology described here can be used to estimate the impacts of climate change. 相似文献
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Impact of climate change on Pacific Northwest hydropower 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) hydropower resource, central to the region’s electricity supply, is vulnerable to the impacts
of climate change. The Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NWPCC), an interstate compact agency, has conducted long
term planning for the PNW electricity supply for its 2005 Power Plan. In formulating its power portfolio recommendation, the
NWPCC explored uncertainty in variables that affect the availability and cost of electricity over the next 20 years. The NWPCC
conducted an initial assessment of potential impacts of climate change on the hydropower system, but these results are not
incorporated in the risk model upon which the 2005 Plan recommendations are based. To assist in bringing climate information
into the planning process, we present an assessment of uncertainty in future PNW hydropower generation potential based on
a comprehensive set of climate models and greenhouse gas emissions pathways. We find that the prognosis for PNW hydropower
supply under climate change is worse than anticipated by the NWPCC’s assessment. Differences between the predictions of individual
climate models are found to contribute more to overall uncertainty than do divergent emissions pathways. Uncertainty in predictions
of precipitation change appears to be more important with respect to impact on PNW hydropower than uncertainty in predictions
of temperature change. We also find that a simple regression model captures nearly all of the response of a sequence of complex
numerical models to large scale changes in climate. This result offers the possibility of streamlining both top-down impact
assessment and bottom-up adaptation planning for PNW water and energy resources. 相似文献
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An innovative approach is introduced for helping developing countries to make their development more sustainable, and also to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a co-benefit. Such an approach is proposed as part of the multilateral framework on climate change. The concept of sustainable development policies and measures (SD-PAMs) is outlined, making clear that it is distinct from many other approaches in starting from development rather than explicit climate targets. The potential of SD-PAMs is illustrated with a case-study of energy efficiency in South Africa, drawing on energy modelling for the use of electricity in industry. The results show multiple benefits both for local sustainable development and for mitigating global climate change. The benefits of industrial energy efficiency in South Africa include significant reductions in local air pollutants; improved environmental health; creation of additional jobs; reduced electricity demand; and delays in new investments in electricity generation. The co-benefit of reducing GHG emissions could result in a reduction of as much as 5% of SA's total projected energy CO2 emissions by 2020. Institutional support and policy guidance is needed at both the international and national level to realize the potential of SD-PAMs. This analysis demonstrates that if countries begin to act early to move towards greater sustainability, they will also start to bend the curve of their emissions path. 相似文献
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作为全球煤电装机规模最大且仍在扩张的国家,中国需要慎重评估兑现《巴黎协定》温室气体减排承诺带来的潜在煤电资产搁浅问题.研究运用"上下交互"的碳锁定曲线模型,识别不同产能扩张情景下(无新增、新增200、300和400 GW)的搁浅煤电机组.首先,从"自上而下"角度匡算中国煤电行业2℃温升目标下的碳配额.然后,从"自下而上... 相似文献
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Numerous hydropower facilities are under construction or planned in tropical and subtropical rivers worldwide. While dams are typically designed considering historic river discharge regimes, climate change is likely to induce large-scale alterations in river hydrology. Here we analyze how future climate change will affect river hydrology, electricity generation, and economic viability of > 350 potential hydropower dams across the Amazon, Earth’s largest river basin and a global hotspot for future hydropower development. Midcentury projections for the RCP 4.5 and 8.5 climate change scenarios show basin-wide reductions of river discharge (means, 13 and 16%, respectively) and hydropower generation (19 and 27%). Declines are sharper for dams in Brazil, which harbors 60% of the proposed projects. Climate change will cause more frequent low-discharge interruption of hydropower generation and less frequent full-capacity operation. Consequently, the minimum electricity sale price for projects to break even more than doubles at many proposed dams, rendering much of future Amazon hydropower less competitive than increasingly lower cost renewable sources such as wind and solar. Climate-smart power systems will be fundamental to support environmentally and financially sustainable energy development in hydropower-dependent regions. 相似文献