Decarbonization of Power Systems, Multi-Stage Decision-Making with Policy and Technology Uncertainty

There is widespread agreement that "deep decarbonization" of the power sector, i.e., reduction of CO2 emissions to near or below zero, will be pivotal to climate change mitigation efforts. Nevertheless, given multi-decadal time horizons, planning for decarbonization must contend with uncertainty regarding technologies costs, new technologies characteristics and availability, and policies and incentives for reducing CO2 emissions in the multi-year adaptation process. At the same time, increasing penetration of variable renewable energy, the availability of energy storage technologies and the active participation of demand in electricity systems requires the appropriate consideration of temporal and spatial resolution to properly account for the cost and value of different resources at the system level.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Sepulveda, Nestor A.(Sepulveda Morales)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Richard K. Lester, Christopher Knittel, and Juan Pablo Vielma.

• Nuclear Science and Engineering.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127311

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127311