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Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 9, 2017
Chris Blackburn
cblackburn8@gatech.edu
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Tony Harding
tony.harding@gatech.edu
Summary Sentence:
School of Economics Students, Professor Publish Review Paper
Full Summary:
This paper reviews the historical and applied literature on energy transitions from an integrated system-level framework. We synthesize the literature using a simple energy-service system framework to highlight the main problems and possible pathways for a transition to a decarbonized energy system. The transition to a decarbonized energy system is one of the most pressing problems facing modern society. Energy systems are complex systems with many layers of feedback between social, technical, and institutional systems. Given these complexities, policy design and analysis must evolve to incorporate these feedbacks more explicitly.
Chris Blackburn and Tony Harding (edit)Ph.D. students Christopher Blackburn and Anthony Harding have banded together with Dr. Juan Moreno- Cruz in academic pursuits to write: Toward Deep Decarbonization: Energy Service System Framework. This esteemed work in the energy policy field has been published by Springer International Publishing AG. Part of Springer Nature. A link to freely access the paper can be located here: http://rdcu.be/uR0h
This paper reviews the historical and applied literature on energy transitions from an integrated system-level framework. They synthesize the literature using a simple energy-service system framework to highlight the main problems and possible pathways for a transition to a decarbonized energy system.
Recent literature suggests that the combination of demand-pull and technology-push policy instruments will be necessary to tip markets in favor of low-carbon energy alternatives. These studies illustrate that complex feedback mechanisms between the different components of an energy system, such as lock-in and push-back, complicate prescriptive policy design.
