Research Briefs

We have been developing little 2-page summaries of key findings for papers that might be of interest beyond narrow technical audiences.

Ruggles et al., 2024
Duan and Caldeira, 2024
Covelli et al., 2024
Li et al., 2024
Dowling et al., 2024


Tyler H. Ruggles, Edgar Virgüez, Natasha Reich, Jacqueline Dowling, Hannah Bloomfield, Enrico G.A. Antonini, Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira (2024) Planning reliable wind- and solar-based electricity systems, Advances in Applied Energy 15, 100185, doi.org/10.1016/j.adapen.2024.100185.

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Duan, L., and Caldeira, K. (2024) Rate of global warming projected to decline under current policy, Environ. Res. Lett. 19 092001
DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad6018

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Dominic Covelli, Edgar Virgüez, Ken Caldeira, Nathan S. Lewis (2024) Oahu as a case study for island electricity systems relying on wind and solar generation instead of imported petroleum fuels, Applied Energy, 375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124054

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Anna X. Li, Edgar Virgüez, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Alicia Wongel, Dominic Covelli, Tyler H. Ruggles, Natasha Reich, Nathan S. Lewis, and Ken Caldeira (2024) The Influence of Regional Geophysical Resource Variability on the Value of Single-and Multistorage Technology Portfolios, Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c10188.

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Jacqueline A. Dowling, Tyler Ruggles, Edgar Virgüez, Natasha D. Reich, Zachary P. Ifkovits, Steven J Davis, Anna X. Li5 Kathleen Kennedy, Katherine Z. Rinaldi, Lei Duan, Ken Caldeira and Nathan S Lewis (2024) Opportunities and constraints of hydrogen energy storage systems, Environmental Research Letters, DOI 10.1088/2753-3751/ad58e5.

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