[LDES-coremodel] Friday meeting for CEC project - Sept. 24 Speaker: Alan Lamont

[Daniel M. KAMMEN]

Hi ALan,
Thanks for doing this (sorry I'll miss -- at the UN for General Assembly
Opening).

dan

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 8:26 PM Sarah Kurtz <skurtz at ucmerced.edu> wrote:

> Here’s a quick reminder of our meeting on Friday. Please see the abstract
> below – it should be quite interesting!  It is well aligned with the
> discussion we’ve been having of cross-sector storage.
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> *Abstract*
> *Structuring a Zero Carbon Energy System with Synthetic Fuels*
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> Alan Lamont
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> If we are to entirely decarbonize the energy system, we will need to
> produce carbon free electricity and carbon free fuels.  Some amount of fuel
> will be needed within the industrial and transportation sectors.  Fuels can
> also provide energy storage, particularly long-term storage, to take
> advantage of seasonal variations in energy and to back up the electric
> generation system. The fuels may include hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and
> other hydrocarbons.  Fuels will be produced from electrical energy and
> perhaps heat.  To produce fuels electric generation above the direct
> electric load can be captured and used for fuel production.  This implies
> that the electricity system will be considerably larger than today.  In
> developing this system, key design decisions will include the mix of
> electric generating technologies, the capacities of generators, and the
> capacity of the fuel production technology.  Regardless of the electric
> generation technologies chosen, the excess energy for fuel production will
> be quite variable.  The total energy captured depends on the variability of
> the electric generation and the capacity that is installed to produce
> fuel.  A large fuel production capacity can capture the peaks in
> electricity production.  However, as fuel production capacity is increased,
> the marginal energy captured declines, so the overall capacity utilization
> of production capacity falls off, increasing the total system cost without
> providing much additional fuel.
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> This research explores the issues in designing an electric generation and
> fuel production system.  It first develops an analytic framework to
> determine the energy available for fuel production as a function of the
> electric generation mix and the fuel production capacity.  It then explores
> the cost tradeoff of different system designs.  The discussion identifies
> possible technologies that might make the system more cost effective.
> Finally, the study identifies several questions that need additional study.
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