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Mulvaney, D. (2020). Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization. Palgrave Macmillan,

About Sustainable Energy Transitions: This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions. Starting with the basic biophysical principles, current sources and environmental consequences of existing energy resource use, the book takes readers through the key questions and topics needed to understand, prescribe, and advocate just and sustainable energy solutions. The interdisciplinary nature of the book aims to build bridges across the social and natural sciences and humanities, bringing together perspectives, ideas and concepts from engineering, economics, and life cycle assessment to sociology, political science, anthropology, policy studies, the humanities, arts, and some interdisciplinary thinkers that defy categories. This accessible approach fills the gap for a textbook that integrates sustainability science and engineering studies with strong empirical social science and it will be a useful tool to anyone interested in the socioecological dimensions of energy system transitions. Read a sample from Google Books.

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**Energy Transitions**

**Lecture**
**Other resources used in this course:**
- **Energy Transition Show podcas**t
***Reading***
Ullman, A. N., & Kittner, N. (2024). Are global efforts coordinated for a Just Transition? A review of civil society, financial, government, and academic Just Transition frameworks. *Energy Research & Social Science*, *108*, 103371.
Dunlap, A., Verweijen, J., & Tornel, C. (2024). The political ecologies of “green” extractivism (s): An introduction. *Journal of Political Ecology*, 31(1), 436-463.
Sovacool, B. K., Bell, S. E., Daggett, C., Labuski, C., Lennon, M., Naylor, L., ... & Firestone, J. (2023). Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. *Energy Research & Social Science*, 97, 102996.
Stevis, D., & Felli, R. (2020). Planetary just transition? How inclusive and how just?. Earth System Governance, 6, 100065.
***Podcasts***
Energy Transition Show podcast [Episode #123] – Sustainable Energy Transitions
**The Energy Transition Show**

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Dimensional Analysis & Unit Conversions**
***Reading***
https://www.withouthotair.com/
***Podcasts***
ETS podcast [Episode #119] – Energy Basics Parts 1–3

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**Lecture**
**Assignment** **– Supply Chains, Sustainability, & Environmental Justice**
Sultana, F. (2022). Critical climate justice. The Geographical Journal, 188(1), 118-124.
Mulvaney, D. (2024). Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power. Energy Research & Social Science, 115, 103607.
***Reading***
Jenkins, K., McCauley, D., Heffron, R., Stephan, H., & Rehner, R. (2016). Energy justice: A conceptual review. Energy Research & Social Science, 11, 174-182.
Riofrancos, T. (2022). The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North. Global Environmental Politics, 1-22.
Sovacool, B. K. (2014). Diversity: Energy studies need social science. *Nature News*, *511*(7511), 529.

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**Lecture**
**Assignments - Measuring Carbon Intensity**
***Reading***
Buck, H. J. (2022). Mining the air: Political ecologies of the circular carbon economy. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(3), 1086-1105.
Busby, J., M. Bazilian, D. Mulvaney. 2020. Energy Transition: Coal as the Canary. Yale Global. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/energy-transition-coal-canary
Chattopadhyay, D., Bazilian, M. D., Handler, B., & Govindarajalu, C. (2021). Accelerating the coal transition. *The Electricity Journal*, 34(2), 106906.
***Podcasts***
ETS [Episode #113] – Coal Plant Self-Scheduling
ETS [Episode #109] – Big Oil’s Climate Denial Machine

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Estimating the resource potential of renewables**
***Reading***
The key to tackling climate change: electrify everything
Mackay Miller. Electrification: its role in deeply decarbonized energy systems
Keeping the balance: How flexible nuclear operation can help add more wind and solar to the grid
***Podcasts***
ETS podcast [Episode #132] – The Future of Solar

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Life Cycle Assessment**
**Reading**
Baker, E., Carley, S., Castellanos, S., Nock, D., Bozeman III, J. F., Konisky, D., ... & Sovacool, B. (2023). Metrics for decision-making in energy justice. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48(1), 737-760.
Smith, B. L., Sekar, A., Mirletz, H., Heath, G., & Margolis, R. (2024). An Updated Life Cycle Assessment of Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Systems Installed in the United States (No. NREL/TP-7A40-87372). National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
Grubert, E., & Sanders, K. T. (2018). Water use in the United States energy system: A national assessment and unit process inventory of water consumption and withdrawals. Environmental science & technology, 52(11), 6695-6703.
Vaclav Smil 2010-power-density-primer
**Podcasts**
ETS podcast [Episode #59] - Life Cycle Assessment
ETS podcast [Episode #7] – EROI

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Planning for Electric Futures**
***Reading***
Turley, B., Cantor, A., Berry, K., Knuth, S., Mulvaney, D., & Vineyard, N. (2022). Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 90, 102583.
Lazar. 2016. Teaching the Duck to Fly
Planning to Build Faster: A Solar Energy Case Study. Roosevelt Institute/Climate & Community Institute.
Felicity Barringer. 2021. What it May Take to Harness Solar Energy on Native Lands. West Center.
Roberts. Transmission fortnight: burying power lines next to rail & roads to make a national transmission grid.
***Podcasts***
ETS podcast [Episode #121] – Winning and Losing the Policy Game
ETS [Episode #46] – Is 100% Renewables Realistic?

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Well-to-Wheels Calculators**
***Reading***
Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining. Climate and Community Project.
***Podcasts***
ETS podcast [Episode #75] – Transportation Transition
One Planet podcast - What are the environmental impacts of biofuel production?

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Decarbonization Strategies**
***Reading***
The Case for a Green New Deal for Public Housing. Climate and Community Project.
DOE Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap.
**Podcast**s
ETS [Episode #25] – The Energy-Water Nexus

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**Lecture**
***Reading***
Lennon, M. (2017). Decolonizing energy: Black Lives Matter and technoscientific expertise amid solar transitions. Energy research & social science, 30, 18-27.
Luke, N., & Heynen, N. (2020). Community solar as energy reparations: abolishing petro-racial capitalism in New Orleans. American Quarterly, 72(3), 603-625.
Hoffacker, M. K., Allen, M. F., & Hernandez, R. R. (2017). Land-sparing opportunities for solar energy development in agricultural landscapes: a case study of the Great Central Valley, CA, United States. Environmental science & technology, 51(24), 14472-14482
***Podcasts***
- **Listen:** ETS podcast, Making Policy Work interview with Danny Cullenward