Hourly accounting of carbon emissions from electricity consumption

GJ Miller, K Novan, A Jenn - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon accounting is important for quantifying the sources of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions that are driving climate change, and is increasingly being used to guide policy …

Towards standardized grid emission factors: methodological insights and best practices

M Schäfer, F Cerdas, C Herrmann - Energy & Environmental Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Inconsistent calculation of grid emission factors (EF) can result in widely divergent corporate
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reports. We dissect this issue through a comprehensive …

How well do emission factors approximate emission changes from electricity system models?

AGN Elenes, E Williams, E Hittinger… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multiple forms of marginal and average emission factors have been developed to estimate
the carbon emissions of adding technologies, such as electric vehicles or solar panels, to …

A review on the charging station planning and fleet operation for electric freight vehicles

MR Alam, Z Guo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.16419, 2023 - arxiv.org
Freight electrification introduces new opportunities and challenges for planning and
operation. Although research on charging infrastructure planning and operation is widely …

Reduced-order dispatch model for simulating marginal emissions factors for the United States power sector

TA Deetjen, IL Azevedo - Environmental science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
This study develops a reduced-order power plant dispatch model and uses it to simulate
marginal emissions factors (MEFs) for the 2014–2017 United States (US) electric grid at the …

Current and future estimates of marginal emission factors for Indian power generation

S Sengupta, T Spencer, N Rodrigues… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Emission factors from Indian electricity remain poorly characterized, despite known spatial
and temporal variability. Limited publicly available emissions and generation data at …

Regional disparities in emissions reduction and net trade from renewables

H Fell, JX Johnson - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
Operational constraints of the power system and inter-regional trade of electricity make it
challenging to predetermine the reduction in emissions from the integration of solar and …

Optimizing future cost and emissions of electric delivery vehicles

M Woody, MT Craig, PT Vaishnav… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electrification of delivery vehicles will play an important role in decarbonizing the
transportation sector. As electricity‐generating technologies vary regionally and temporally …

A data-driven framework for quantifying consumption-based monthly and hourly marginal emissions factors

A Zohrabian, S Mayes, KT Sanders - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The fleet of power plants supplying electricity to a power grid varies diurnally and
seasonally, creating large time-dependent differences in the emissions associated with …

Charging strategies to minimize greenhouse gas emissions of electrified delivery vehicles

M Woody, P Vaishnav, MT Craig… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrification of delivery fleets has emerged as an important opportunity to reduce the
transportation sector's environmental impact, including reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) …