Readings

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

  • Ehrlich, Paul R., and John P. Holdren. 1971a. “Impact of Population Growth: Complacency Concerning This Component of Man’s Predicament Is Unjustified and Counterproductive.” Science 171 (3977): 1212–17. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.171.3977.1212. [online]
  • Kaya, Yoichi, and Keiichi Yokobori, eds. 1997. Environment, Energy, and Economy: Strategies for Sustainable. United Nations Univ. https://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu17ee/uu17ee00.htm. [online]
  • Pacala, Stephen, and Robert Socolow. 2004. “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.” Science 305 (5686): 968–72. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1100103.
  • Fridley, David, Nina Z. Khanna, Nan Zhou, and Michael McNeil. 2016. “Impacts of China’s 2010 to 2013 Mandatory Product Energy Efficiency Standards: A Retrospective and Prospective Look.” https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2016/data/papers/5_131.pdf. [online]
  • Masters, Gilbert M. 2013. Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Bergin, Mike H., Chinmay Ghoroi, Deepa Dixit, James J. Schauer, and Drew T. Shindell. 2017. “Large Reductions in Solar Energy Production Due to Dust and Particulate Air Pollution.” Environmental Science & Technology Letters 4 (8): 339–44.
  • Rennert, Kevin, Frank Errickson, Brian C. Prest, et al. 2022. “Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2.” Nature, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05224-9.
  • Armitage, Sarah C., Noël Bakhtian, and Adam B. Jaffe. 2023. Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments. Working Paper. Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w31622. [online]
  • Stechemesser, Annika, Nicolas Koch, Ebba Mark, et al. 2024. “Climate Policies That Achieved Major Emission Reductions: Global Evidence from Two Decades.” Science 385 (6711): 884–92. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl6547. [online]
  • Quagraine, Kwesi A., Mark Lynas, and Erle C. Ellis. 2026. “As We Breach 1.5 °C, We Must Replace Temperature Limits with Clean-Energy Targets.” Nature 649 (8099): 1103–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00246-z. [online]
  • Johnson, Nathan, and Iain Staffell. 2026. “Democratizing Climate Change Mitigation Pathways Using Modernized Stabilization Wedges.” Science 391 (6789): eadr2118. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2118. [online]

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

  • Swan, Lukas G., and V. Ismet Ugursal. 2009. “Modeling of End-Use Energy Consumption in the Residential Sector: A Review of Modeling Techniques.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 13 (8): 1819–35. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2008.09.033. [online]
  • Ehrlich, Paul R., and John P. Holdren. 1971b. “Impact of Population Growth: Complacency Concerning This Component of Man’s Predicament Is Unjustified and Counterproductive.” Science 171 (3977): 1212–17. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006254-197111000-00014.
  • Lin, Jiang, Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan. 2016. “Economic Rebalancing and Electricity Demand in China.” The Electricity Journal 29 (3): 48–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2016.03.010.
  • Borenstein, Severin. 2015. “A Microeconomic Framework for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Rebound and Some Implications.” The Energy Journal 36 (1). https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.36.1.1.
  • Brockway, Paul E., Steve Sorrell, Gregor Semieniuk, Matthew Kuperus Heun, and Victor Court. 2021. “Energy Efficiency and Economy-Wide Rebound Effects: A Review of the Evidence and Its Implications.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 141: 110781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.110781.
  • Meadows, Donella H., Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens. 2018. “The Limits to Growth.” In Green Planet Blues. Routledge.
  • Rao, Narasimha D., and Jihoon Min. 2018. “Decent Living Standards: Material Prerequisites for Human Wellbeing.” Social Indicators Research 138 (1): 225–44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1650-0.
  • Hong, Tao, and Shu Fan. 2016. “Probabilistic Electric Load Forecasting: A Tutorial Review.” International Journal of Forecasting 32 (3): 914–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.11.011.

Lecture 8

Lecture 9

  • Lovins, Amory B. 1976. “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken.” Foreign Affairs 55: 65. https://rmi.org/insight/energy-strategy-the-road-not-taken. [online]
  • Jacobson, Mark Z., Mark A. Delucchi, Mary A. Cameron, and Bethany A. Frew. 2015. “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 (49): 15060–65. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510028112. [online]
  • Clack, Christopher T. M., Staffan A. Qvist, Jay Apt, et al. 2017. “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, 201610381. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610381114. [online]
  • Cui, Ryna Yiyun, Nathan Hultman, Diyang Cui, et al. 2021. “A Plant-by-Plant Strategy for High-Ambition Coal Power Phaseout in China.” Nature Communications 12 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21786-0.
  • He, Gang, Jiang Lin, Ying Zhang, et al. 2020. “Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition Away from Coal in China.” One Earth 3 (2): 187–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.07.012.
  • Wu, Huihuang, Junfeng Liu, Xiurong Hu, et al. 2024. “Fewer Than 15% of Coal Power Plant Workers in China Can Easily Shift to Green Jobs by 2060.” One Earth, ahead of print, November 6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.10.006. [online]
  • Masters, Gilbert M. 2013. Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Mulugetta, Yacob, Youba Sokona, Philipp A. Trotter, et al. 2022. “Africa Needs Context-Relevant Evidence to Shape Its Clean Energy Future.” Nature Energy, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01152-0.
  • Johnston, Josiah, Rodrigo Henriquez-Auba, Benjamı́n Maluenda, and Matthias Fripp. 2019. “Switch 2.0: A Modern Platform for Planning High-Renewable Power Systems.” SoftwareX 10: 100251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2019.100251.
  • He, Gang, Jiang Lin, Froylan Sifuentes, Xu Liu, Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol Phadke. 2020. “Rapid Cost Decrease of Renewables and Storage Accelerates the Decarbonization of China’s Power System.” Nature Communications 11 (1): 2486. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16184-x. [online]
  • Nijsse, Femke J. M. M., Jean-Francois Mercure, Nadia Ameli, et al. 2023. “The Momentum of the Solar Energy Transition.” Nature Communications 14 (1): 6542. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41971-7. [online]

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