Macro-Energy Systems: An Emergent Interdisciplinary Field

Virgüez, Edgar

GC073
Macro-Energy Systems: An Emergent Interdisciplinary Field

Session ID#: 247287

Session Description:

Macro-Energy Systems (MES) is an emergent interdisciplinary field that examines large-scale, systems-level, and long-term aspects of energy systems and their interactions with environmental, economic, and social systems. Sustainability and equity concerns, and computational advances have fueled a growing area of study with an increasingly rich set of tools and questions. This session welcomes participation from researchers addressing topics in MES from diverse perspectives—including, but not limited to, energy system modeling, environmental and energy economics, climate science, policy analysis, and social science. We invite contributions on topics addressing energy systems transitions to address global environmental challenges, interactions between MES and the Earth system, and/or their societal implications. The session will emphasize interdisciplinary approaches and community-building to advance shared understanding and shape future research directions. It will also provide a platform for identifying priority research questions, collaboration opportunities, and actionable next steps for the field.

Co-Sponsor(s):

NH - Natural Hazards
SY - Science and Society

Index Terms:

1605 Abrupt/rapid climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Primary Convener: Edgar Virgüez, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Conveners: Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States and Morgan Edwards, University of Wisconsin Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Madison, United States

Student/Early Career Convener: Gabriel Mantegna, Princeton University, Princeton, United States

MAXIMIZING WIND TURBINE EFFICIENCY THROUGH ADAPTIVE BLADE PITCH CONTROL (1844618)

Ritwik Singh, High Technology High School, Lincroft, NJ, UNITED STATES

Agent-Based Infrastructure Planning to Better Understand Energy Transitions (1852075)

Ruaridh Macdonald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, Cambridge, MA, United States and Yu Weng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Initiative, Cambridge, United States

Macro-Energy Systems: Governance and Strategies for a Just, Decarbonized Future (Invited) (1853636)

Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States

Carbon Removal and the Uneven Burdens of Net-Zero: Justice and Risk in Macro-Energy Systems (Invited) (1856904)

Candelaria Bergero, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Jing Cheng, Department of Earth System Science,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, Yang Ou, Peking University, Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing, China, Haewon McJeon, KAIST, Graduate School of Green Growth and Sustainability, Daejeon, South Korea, Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University, Engineering and Public Policy; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States, Ines Azevedo, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States, Elina Brutschin, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Zebedee Nicholls, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, Matthew Gidden, Center for Global Sustainability, UMD, College Park, United States, Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Steven Davis, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, United States and Morgan Edwards, University of Wisconsin Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Madison, United States

Empirical estimates of cost of capital for industrial-scale green hydrogen projects (1860461)

Rega Sota¹ and Sandra Venghaus^1,2, (1)RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Aachen, Germany, (2)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems, Jülich, Germany

Feedstock Sourcing Can Double GHG Intensity in US Plastic Supply Chains: A Geospatial Cradle-to-Gate Life Cycle Analysis of US Fossil-based Plastic Supply Chains (1869697)

Yuanrui Zhu, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States and Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States

Environmental Impacts and Trade-Offs for New Zealand’s Energy Transition: A Life Cycle Assessment Perspective (1876818)

Francisco Astorga-Mendoza, Jannik Haas and Rebecca Peer, University of Canterbury, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Christchurch, New Zealand

Projected Increases in Cooling Energy Demand across Africa under Climate Change and Population Growth Scenarios (1880704)

Ghafi Kondi Akara^1,2, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla³ and Wilfred Ndifon², (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, United States, (2)African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Research and Innovation Centre, Kigali, Rwanda, (3)AIMS-Rwanda; African Institute for Mathematical Sciences of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

Joint Impacts of Climate Change and Technology Diffusion on Future Uncertain Peak Electricity Demand (1880710)

Mai Shi, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States and Michael Craig, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States

Linking enhanced energy systems models to deliberative citizen juries to advance decarbonization in New England, USA (1882367)

Ryan Calder¹, Sam Evans-Brown², Richard B. Howarth³, Chloe Jackson⁴, Georgia Mavrommati⁴ and Amir Mortazavigazar⁵, (1)Virginia Tech, Population Health Sciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Clean Energy NH, Concord, NH, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Virginia Tech, Population Health Sciences; Global Change Center, Blacksburg, VA, United States

Representing Real-World Speed Limits to Low-Carbon Technology Deployment in Macro-Energy System Models (1884490)

Evan Erickson¹, Xinyuan Huang², Chris Greig³, Eric Larson³ and Wei Peng², (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, United States, (3)Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton, United States

Time of Emergence of Global Wind‑Power‑Potential Signals in CMIP6 Projections (1890968)

Hao Pan and Laibo Liu, University of Hong Kong, Department of Geography, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Near-term opportunities to avoid blast furnace relining in the United States (1891255)

Mohamed Atouife, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, United States

Can We Sequester Carbon Fast Enough? Growing Disconnect Between Models and Reality (1895767)

Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States

Capacity Expansion Planning with Robust Alternatives: A Community Choice Aggregator Case Study (1897423)

Manar Jaradat and Neha Patankar, Binghamton University, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton, United States

Consequential Social and Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Fusion Power Systems at Scale (1913559)

Zachary Thomas, University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States and Morgan Edwards, University of Wisconsin Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Madison, United States

The Impacts of Transmission Expansion, Long Duration Energy Storage, and Floating Offshore Wind Mandates on Resource Integration in the Western U.S. Grid (1915155)

Nils Angliviel de La Beaumelle¹, Ines Azevedo², J. Steven Davis³, Jacqueline Dowling⁴, Dimitri Saad¹ and Kamran Tehranchi⁵, (1)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States, (2)Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford Center for Carbon Storage, Dept. of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, United States

How to Minimize the Indirect Emissions from Electricity Consumption for Direct Air Capture (1916196)

Margot Adam, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Aniruddh Mohan, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton, United States and Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, United States

Coordinated Hydropower Dispatch Decisions in Interconnected Water–Energy Systems (1923558)

Hisham Eldardiry¹, Phumthep Bunnak² and Stefano Galelli¹, (1)Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, United States

Assessing the Value of Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) in Appalachian Virginia to the U.S. Eastern Interconnection (1925023)

Mashood Ur Rahman¹, Julianne Quinn¹, Jingwei Qian², Jordan Kern² and Eric Loth³, (1)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, (2)North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States, (3)University of Virginia, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Charlottesville, United States

Enabling Sustainable Growth in Developing Regions through Grid Integration: A Case for ASEAN Power Grid (1927158)

Zhuoer Feng, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Hisham Eldardiry, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Phumthep Bunnak, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, United States and Stefano Galelli, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States

Multiple-scale Land-sparing Opportunities of Renewable Energy Transitions (1928432)

Xiao Li, European Geosciences Union, Montreal, QC, CANADA; McGill University, Civil engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, Rebecca R Hernandez, University of California, Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States and Sarah M Jordaan, McGill University, Civil Engineering, Montréal, QC, Canada

Deep Learning-Based Projections of Baseline and Peak Electricity Demand for Enhancing Grid Resilience Under Climate Change (1928516)

Buket Sahin, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States and Melissa R Allen Dumas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States

Effects of model choices and technology strategies on the assessment of air quality and health benefits from Net-Zero transition (1933479)

Jinyu Shiwang¹, Wei Peng², John Bistline³, Jamil Farbes⁴, Xinyuan Huang², Gokul Iyer⁵, Jesse Jenkins⁶, Eladio M Knipping⁷, Nicholas Mailloux^8,9, Erin Mayfield¹⁰, Aranya Venkatesh³ and Qianru Zhu³, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, United States, (3)Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, United States, (4)Evolved Energy Research, San Diego, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), College Park, United States, (6)Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, United States, (7)EPRI, Washington, United States, (8)University of Wisconsin–Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Madison, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (10)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

Timelines and Delays in European Grid Expansion (1945751)

Damiano Alessi, Kavita Surana and Behnam Zakeri, Institute for Data, Energy, and Sustainability, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Information Systems and Operations Management, Vienna, Austria

Increasing Electricity Demand: Challenges & Opportunities (1946052)

Thushara Gunda¹, Raquel Valdez¹ and Franciszek Hasiuk², (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States

Coupling Integrated Assessment and Power System Models to Assess Grid Impacts of Economy-Wide Decarbonization: Insights from South America’s Mercosur+ Region (1951364)

Joudat Bint Khalil¹, A.F.M. Kamal Chowdhury¹, Jacob Wessel², Kwasi Amo Offei-Akoto³, Thomas Bernard Wild⁴, Yiyun Ryna Cui⁵, Gokul Iyer⁶ and Jonathan Lamontagne², (1)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Park, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Center for Global Sustainability, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), College Park, United States

Liberating U.S. Energy Data: Addressing Shared Data Barriers in Macro Energy Systems Research (1956577)

Ella Belfer and Dazhong Xia, Catalyst Cooperative, Boulder, United States

Optimal Charging Infrastructure Locations and Grid Upgrades for the U.S. Freight Electrification Transition (1956867)

Eleftheria Kontou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States and Ruolin Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States

Mitigating Climate Change Induced Risk for Investment Pathways in the Bulk Power System (1959026)

Michael Craig and Martha Christino, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Bridging the Modeling Gap Between Political Economic Systems and Macro-Energy Systems (1964321)

Michael Davidson, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States

The EARNEST Consortium (1965395)

Edgar Virgüez, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Ines Azevedo, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States

Post-combustion fossil-fuel CCS in the US: impact of market and policy dynamics (1967034)

Kadir Bice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Lindsey Gulden, Leg Up Data, Newton, MA, United States and Charles Franklin Harvey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States

Mapping Wellbeing Outcomes Across Carbon Dioxide Removal Levels in Climate Pathways (1971706)

Camille Patrick Wejnert-Depue¹, Elina Brutschin², Marina Andrijevic² and elina brutschin, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

A reinforcement learning approach to energy transition planning under uncertainty (1971779)

Mofan Zhang, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Morgan Edwards, University of Wisconsin Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Madison, United States, Angelo Carlino, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy, Franklyn Kanyako, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United States and Sarah Fletcher, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States

Plant-by-plant strategies for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries using clean hydrogen (1977474)

Liqun Peng, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Junhong Liu, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Gang He, Baruch College, New York, United States and Jiang Lin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States

Decomposing the impact of carbon dioxide removal deployment on the U.S. net-zero scenarios (1981019)

Franklyn Kanyako, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United States, Morgan Edwards, University of Wisconsin Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Madison, United States and Michael Craig, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States

Public support for decarbonization and green industrial development in the United States (1983409)

Holly Buck¹, Prerna Shah², Laura Arpan³, Janet Yang³ and Travis Young⁴, (1)University at Buffalo, Environment and Sustainability, Buffalo, NY, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Athens, United States, (3)University at Buffalo, Communication, Buffalo, United States, (4)University at Buffalo, Environment and Sustainability, Buffalo, United States

Analysing macro-economic effects of regionally differentiated climate and energy policies in the global integrated assessment model GCAM (1987123)

Christoph Bertram¹, Yiyun Ryna Cui², Allen Fawcett³, Haewon McJeon⁴, Gokul Iyer³, Tiruwork Tibebu³, Chaoyi Guo³ and Jiyong Eom⁵, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Center for Global Sustainability, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Center for Global Sustainability, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Center for Global Sustainability - University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (4)KAIST, Graduate School of Green Growth and Sustainability, Daejeon, South Korea, (5)KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

Location-Based Power Planning with Aging Plant Sites for a Just Energy Transition: Coal Repurposing Opportunities in South Africa (1988797)

Ziting Huang, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States and Debabrata Chattopadhyay, World Bank Group, Washington, United States

Sociotechnical Modeling of a Just Industrial Electrification Transition (1993345)

Rebecca Ciez, Hanwen Qin, Anindya Nath and Partha Mukherjee, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

Modeling the North Carolina Carbon Plan Using GLIMPSE (1994763)

Trinity White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environemtal Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States and Noah Kittner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Modeling the Environmental and Health Impacts of Alternative Grid Configurations (2000012)

Jordan French¹, Jerry Potts¹ and Sergio Castellanos², (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States

Optimizing Renewable Energy Siting in New York State: A Scenario-Based Approach for Onshore Wind and Utility-Scale Solar Development (2001324)

Kaviyarasan Ganesamoorthy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States and Neha Patankar, Binghamton University, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton, United States

Understanding the Impacts of Large-Load Growth on Generation Portfolio Requirements in Texas (2002494)

Jerry Potts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Sergio Castellanos, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States

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Macro-Energy Systems: An Emergent Interdisciplinary Field