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Teaching Resources 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613170057740-O6RATPTLIOZKO2EPX88Y/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+2.47.30+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 1. Energy Transitions Lecture Other resources used in this course: - Energy Transition Show podcast 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613170682357-TR7XZ1YIC2ACKVY6GHTK/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+2.57.56+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 2. Fundamentals of Energy Science Lecture Assignment - Dimensional Analysis & Unit Conversions Reading https://www.withouthotair.com/ Podcasts ETS podcast [Episode #119] – Energy Basics Parts 1–3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613170764341-ZM5EU7G9ERMH1G50E3CI/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+2.59.20+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 3 - Energy and the Social Sciences 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613170872974-GH2B3TNAY9BPEGOUWIGB/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+3.01.08+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 4 - Fossil Fuels & Resources 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613170904627-M8Q2SOD22D34NHG0W5Z6/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+3.01.39+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 5 - Nuclear & Renewables 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613171077316-STZCXJPJG6HZIOOT9WS3/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+3.04.32+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 6 - Sustainable Energy Indicators 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613171120323-4BGD49GNOR5FJVH315IT/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+3.05.04+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 7 - Low Carbon Electricity Systems 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? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613171399453-VIOFUMG22XABZPR6MM8L/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+3.09.43+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 8 - Low Carbon Mobility 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? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613171470470-ITXWBZAGCC06WOV1QOBB/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+3.10.28+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 9 - Low Carbon Industries and the Built Environment 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. Podcasts ETS [Episode #25] – The Energy-Water Nexus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e72d56e4b0357d5909c60f/1613171476742-B9KQRV4GQ4HTL9MWPVWK/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+3.10.41+PM.png Sustainable Energy Transitions - 10 - Sustainable and Just Energy Strategies 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. 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