Projected Urban Energy Mixes and Associated GHGs

 

Authors

  • Emily Grubert – UC Berkeley/Georgia Tech
  • Jennifer Stokes-Draut – UC Berkeley
  • Arpad Horvath – UC Berkeley

Purpose

As aging water infrastructure nears the end of its useful life, now is an ideal time for managers and planners to focus on system resiliency, sustainability, and adaptability to potential long-term supply and demand changes from climate change, population growth, urbanization, and other factors in their decisions. It is critical to proactively and rigorously evaluate potential negative consequences as well as co-benefits associated with innovative water strategies before investments are made as they may affect society for years to come. These projections of changes to electricity mixes in three UWIN cities (Denver, Tucson, and Miami) were developed to allow us to forecast embedded GHGs in changing water supply portfolios for these three cities, ensuring we understand how these decisions may impact the climate for generations.

1.B1-2 energy providers_UWIN Metadata

Description

For these three UWIN cities, information on expected construction and retirement of fossil fuel and nuclear plants, renewable portfolio standard requirements, and estimates of GHG emissions associated with electricity generation from combustion and fuel production (e.g., methane from coal beds and natural gas pipelines) was used to estimate current and future GHG emissions from electricity use in each of these three cities.

 

Attributes

Fuel sources (type, MWh generated), combustion emissions (total CO2e/ year and CO2e/MWh delivered) for each year from 2016-2015 for the three cities

 

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