Readings

Lecture 1

• IEA “Net Zero by 2050” (International Energy Agency, 2021), https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050.
• IRENA “Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2021” (Abu Dhabi: International Renewable Energy Agency, July 2021), https://www.irena.org/publications/2022/Jul/Renewable-Power-Generation-Costs-in-2021.
• Gang He et al. “Rapid Cost Decrease of Renewables and Storage Accelerates the Decarbonization of China’s Power System,” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (May 19, 2020): 2486, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16184-x.
• Neil Grant et al. “Cost Reductions in Renewables Can Substantially Erode the Value of Carbon Capture and Storage in Mitigation Pathways,” One Earth 4, no. 11 (November 19, 2021): 1588–1601, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.10.024.

Lecture 2

• Weston A Hermann “Quantifying Global Exergy Resources,” Energy 31, no. 12 (2006): 1685–1702, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544205001805.
• Jonathan Koomey et al. “Defining a Standard Metric for Electricity Savings,” Environmental Research Letters 5, no. 1 (2010): 014017, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014017.
• David Fridley et al. “Impacts of China’s 2010 to 2013 Mandatory Product Energy Efficiency Standards: A Retrospective and Prospective Look” (ACEEE, 2016), https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2016/data/papers/5_131.pdf.
• Jordan Macknick “Energy and CO2 Emission Data Uncertainties,” Carbon Management 2, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 189–205, https://doi.org/10.4155/cmt.11.10.
• James Hansen, Makiko Sato, and Reto Ruedy “Perception of Climate Change,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, no. 37 (September 2012): E2415–23, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205276109.
• Martin L Weitzman “Gamma Discounting,” American Economic Review 91, no. 1 (2001): 260–71, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.1.260.
• K. Arrow et al. “Determining Benefits and Costs for Future Generations,” Science 341, no. 6144 (July 26, 2013): 349–50, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1235665.
• Louis E. Yelle “The Learning Curve: Historical Review and Comprehensive Survey,” Decision Sciences 10, no. 2 (1979): 302–28, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.1979.tb00026.x.
• Arnulf Grübler, Nebojša Nakićenović, and David G Victor “Dynamics of Energy Technologies and Global Change,” Energy Policy 27, no. 5 (May 1999): 247–80, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0301-4215(98)00067-6.
• Goksin Kavlak, James McNerney, and Jessika E. Trancik “Evaluating the Causes of Cost Reduction in Photovoltaic Modules,” Energy Policy 123 (December 1, 2018): 700–710, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.015.
• Arnulf Grubler “The Costs of the French Nuclear Scale-up: A Case of Negative Learning by Doing,” Energy Policy 38, no. 9 (2010): 5174–88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.05.003.
• John Helveston, Gang He, and Michael Davidson “Quantifying the Cost Savings of Global Solar Photovoltaic Supply Chains,” Nature 612, no. 7938 (2022): 83–87, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05316-6.

Lecture 3

• IPCC Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group i to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Book, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157896.
• Tamma A Carleton and Solomon M Hsiang “Social and Economic Impacts of Climate,” Science 353, no. 6304 (2016): aad9837, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad9837.
• James E. Neumann et al. “Climate Damage Functions for Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the United States,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 14, no. 1 (January 2020): 25–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rez021.
• Valuing Climate Changes: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2017), https://doi.org/10.17226/24651.
• Solomon M. Hsiang, Marshall Burke, and Edward Miguel “Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict,” Science, August 2013, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1235367.
• Seleshi G Yalew et al. “Impacts of Climate Change on Energy Systems in Global and Regional Scenarios,” Nature Energy 5, no. 10 (2020): 794–802, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0664-z.
• Laibao Liu et al. “Climate Change Impacts on Planned Supply–Demand Match in Global Wind and Solar Energy Systems,” Nature Energy 8, no. 8 (August 2023): 870–80, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01304-w.
• Paul R. Ehrlich and John P. Holdren “Impact of Population Growth: Complacency Concerning This Component of Man’s Predicament Is Unjustified and Counterproductive.” Science 171, no. 3977 (March 1971): 1212–17, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.171.3977.1212.
• Yoichi Kaya and Keiichi Yokobori, eds. Environment, Energy, and Economy: Strategies for Sustainable (Tokyo: United Nations Univ, 1997), https://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu17ee/uu17ee00.htm.
• Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies,” Science 305, no. 5686 (2004): 968–72, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1100103.
• Kevin Rennert et al. “Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2,” Nature, 2022, 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05224-9.

Lecture 4

• Ehrlich and Holdren “Impact of Population Growth.”
• Kaya and Yokobori Environment, Energy, and Economy.
• Pacala and Socolow “Stabilization Wedges.”
• Fridley et al. “Impacts of China’s 2010 to 2013 Mandatory Product Energy Efficiency Standards.”
• Gilbert M Masters Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems (John Wiley & Sons, 2013).
• Mike H Bergin et al. “Large Reductions in Solar Energy Production Due to Dust and Particulate Air Pollution,” Environmental Science & Technology Letters 4, no. 8 (2017): 339–44.

Lecture 5

• Vaclav Smil Energy: A Beginner’s Guide (Simon; Schuster, 2017), https://vaclavsmil.com/2017/02/21/energy-a-beginners-guide-beginners-guides-2nd-edition/.
• IEA “Net Zero by 2050.”
• BMWi “An Electricity Market for Germany’s Energy Transition: White Paper by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy” (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs; Energy, July 2015), https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/whitepaper-electricity-market.html.
• Koomey et al. “Defining a Standard Metric for Electricity Savings.”
• Liu et al. “Climate Change Impacts on Planned Supply–Demand Match in Global Wind and Solar Energy Systems.”
• Shi Chen et al. “Deploying Solar Photovoltaic Energy First in Carbon-Intensive Regions Brings Gigatons More Carbon Mitigations to 2060,” Communications Earth & Environment 4 (October 11, 2023): 369, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01006-x.

Lecture 6

• Lukas G. Swan and V. Ismet Ugursal “Modeling of End-Use Energy Consumption in the Residential Sector: A Review of Modeling Techniques,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 13, no. 8 (2009): 1819–35, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2008.09.033.
• Paul R Ehrlich and John P Holdren “Impact of Population Growth: Complacency Concerning This Component of Man’s Predicament Is Unjustified and Counterproductive.” Science 171, no. 3977 (1971): 1212–17, https://doi.org/10.1097/00006254-197111000-00014.
• Jiang Lin, Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan “Economic Rebalancing and Electricity Demand in China,” The Electricity Journal 29, no. 3 (2016): 48–54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2016.03.010.
• Severin Borenstein “A Microeconomic Framework for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Rebound and Some Implications,” The Energy Journal 36, no. 1 (2015), https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.36.1.1.
• Paul E Brockway et al. “Energy Efficiency and Economy-Wide Rebound Effects: A Review of the Evidence and Its Implications,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 141 (2021): 110781, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.110781.
• Donella H Meadows et al. “The Limits to Growth,” in Green Planet Blues (Routledge, 2018), 25–29.
• Narasimha D Rao and Jihoon Min “Decent Living Standards: Material Prerequisites for Human Wellbeing,” Social Indicators Research 138, no. 1 (2018): 225–44, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1650-0.
• Tao Hong and Shu Fan “Probabilistic Electric Load Forecasting: A Tutorial Review,” International Journal of Forecasting 32, no. 3 (2016): 914–38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.11.011.

Lecture 7

• Kenneth Gillingham, Richard G Newell, and Karen Palmer “Energy Efficiency Economics and Policy,” Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ. 1, no. 1 (2009): 597–620, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.resource.102308.124234.
• Gillingham Kenneth, Wagner Gernot, et al. “Energy Policy: The Rebound Effect Is Overplayed,” Nature 493 (2013): 475–76, https://doi.org/10.1038/493475a.
• IEA “Net Zero by 2050.”
• Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Nudge (Yale University Press, 2021), https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300262285/nudge/.

Lecture 8

• IEA “Energy and Air Pollution: World Energy Outlook Special Report 2016,” 2016, https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-air-pollution.
• Jos Lelieveld et al. “The Contribution of Outdoor Air Pollution Sources to Premature Mortality on a Global Scale,” Nature 525, no. 7569 (2015): 367–71, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15371.
• Qiang Zhang et al. “Transboundary Health Impacts of Transported Global Air Pollution and International Trade,” Nature 543, no. 7647 (2017): 705–9, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21712.
• IEA “Water Energy Nexus Excerpt from the World Energy Outlook 2016,” 2016, https://www.iea.org/reports/water-energy-nexus.
• Chao Zhang et al. “Long-Term Transition of China’s Power Sector Under Carbon Neutrality Target and Water Withdrawal Constraint,” Journal of Cleaner Production 329 (2021): 129765, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129765.
• Jessica Loveringa et al. “Land-Use Intensity of Electricity Production and Tomorrow’s Energy Landscape,” PLoS ONE 17 (2022): 7, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270155.
• Thomas Matte et al. “NPCC4: Climate Change and New York City’s Health Risk,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1539, no. 1 (2024): 185–240, https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15115.
• Marina Romanello et al. “The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Facing Record-Breaking Threats from Delayed Action,” The Lancet 0, no. 0 (October 29, 2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01822-1.
• Jenna F. Tipaldo, Deborah Balk, and Lori M. Hunter “A Framework for Ageing and Health Vulnerabilities in a Changing Climate,” Nature Climate Change, October 25, 2024, 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02156-2.

Lecture 9

• Amory B. Lovins “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken,” Foreign Affairs 55 (1976): 65, https://rmi.org/insight/energy-strategy-the-road-not-taken.
• Mark Z. Jacobson et al. “Low-Cost Solution to the Grid Reliability Problem with 100% Penetration of Intermittent Wind, Water, and Solar for All Purposes,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 49 (December 8, 2015): 15060–65, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510028112.
• Christopher T. M. Clack et al. “Evaluation of a Proposal for Reliable Low-Cost Grid Power with 100% Wind, Water, and Solar,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 19, 2017, 201610381, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610381114.
• Ryna Yiyun Cui et al. “A Plant-by-Plant Strategy for High-Ambition Coal Power Phaseout in China,” Nature Communications 12, no. 1 (2021): 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21786-0.
• Gang He et al. “Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition Away from Coal in China,” One Earth 3, no. 2 (2020): 187–94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.07.012.
• Huihuang Wu et al. “Fewer Than 15% of Coal Power Plant Workers in China Can Easily Shift to Green Jobs by 2060,” One Earth, November 6, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.10.006.
• Masters Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems.
• Yacob Mulugetta et al. “Africa Needs Context-Relevant Evidence to Shape Its Clean Energy Future,” Nature Energy, 2022, 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01152-0.
• Josiah Johnston et al. “Switch 2.0: A Modern Platform for Planning High-Renewable Power Systems,” SoftwareX 10 (2019): 100251, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2019.100251.
• He et al. “Rapid Cost Decrease of Renewables and Storage Accelerates the Decarbonization of China’s Power System.”

Lecture 10

• Peter Alstone, Dimitry Gershenson, and Daniel M Kammen “Decentralized Energy Systems for Clean Electricity Access,” Nature Climate Change 5, no. 4 (2015): 305–14, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2512.
• G. He and D. G. Victor “Experiences and Lessons from China’s Success in Providing Electricity for All,” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 122 (2017): 335–38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.03.011.
• Kirsten Jenkins et al. “Energy Justice: A Conceptual Review,” Energy Research & Social Science 11 (2016): 174–82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.10.004.
• Deborah A Sunter, Sergio Castellanos, and Daniel M Kammen “Disparities in Rooftop Photovoltaics Deployment in the United States by Race and Ethnicity,” Nature Sustainability 2, no. 1 (2019): 71–76, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0204-z.
• Shuchen Cong et al. “Unveiling Hidden Energy Poverty Using the Energy Equity Gap,” Nature Communications 13, no. 1 (2022): 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30146-5.
• Sheila R. Foster et al. “NPCC4: Advancing Climate Justice in Climate Adaptation Strategies for New York City,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1539, no. 1 (2024): 77–126, https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15148.