Climate Change Strategies & Policies

2020

Zhang, Cong, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Max Wei, Joshua Eichman, Samveg Saxena, Matteo Muratori, and Omar J Guerra. "Flexible grid-based electrolysis hydrogen production for fuel cell vehicles reduces costs and greenhouse gas emissions." Applied Energy 278 (2020) 115651.

2019

Shah, Nihar, Max Wei, Virginie E Letschert, and Amol A Phadke. Benefits of Energy Efficient and Low-Global Warming Potential Refrigerant Cooling Equipment. 2019. LBNL-2001229.

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2018

Breunig, Hanna, Tyler Huntington, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne Scown. "Dynamic Geospatial Modeling of the Building Stock To Project Urban Energy Demand." Environmental Science & Technology 52.14 (2018) 7604 - 7613.
Ruffini, Eleanora, and Max Wei. "Future costs of fuel cell electric vehicles in California using a learning rate approach." Energy 150 (2018) 329 - 341.
Wang, Meina, Paul Ullrich, and Dev Millstein. "The future of wind energy in California: Future projections with the Variable-Resolution CESM." Renewable Energy 127 (2018) 242 - 257.
Millstein, Dev, Joshua Solomon-Culp, Meina Wang, Paul Ullrich, and Craig Collier. "Wind energy variability and links to regional and synoptic scale weather." Climate Dynamics (2018).

2017

Schwartz, Lisa C, Max Wei, William R Morrow, III, Jeff Deason, Steven R Schiller, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, Woei Ling Leow, Todd Levin, Steven Plotkin, Yan Zhou, and Joseph Teng. Electricity end uses, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources baseline. 2017. LBNL‐ 1006983.

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Mohegh, Arash, Pablo J Rosado, Ling Jin, Dev Millstein, Ronnen M Levinson, and George A Ban-Weiss. "Modeling the climate impacts of deploying solar reflective cool pavements in California cities." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122.13 (2017) 6798 - 6817.
Cantore, Nicola, Patrick Nussbaumer, Max Wei, and Daniel M Kammen. "Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa: a framework to evaluate employment generation and cost effectiveness." Environmental Research Letters 12.3 (2017).
Raghavan, Shuba V, Max Wei, and Daniel M Kammen. "Scenarios to decarbonize residential water heating in California." Energy Policy 109 (2017) 441 - 451.
Greenblatt, Jeffery B, Nicholas R Brown, Rachel Slaybaugh, Theresa Wilks, Emma M Stewart, and Sean T McCoy. The Future of Low-Carbon Electricity. 2017. LBNL-1007260.

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2016

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Max Wei. "Assessment of the climate commitments and additional mitigation policies of the United States." Nature Climate Change (2016). LBNL-1006368.
Morrow, III, William R, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith. Lifecycle Industry GreenHouse gas, Technology and Energy through the Use Phase (LIGHTEnUP) – Analysis Tool User’s Guide. 2016. LBNL-1005777.

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Sathre, Roger, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Karl Walczak, Ian D Sharp, John C Stevens, Joel W Ager, III, and Frances A Houle. "Opportunities to improve the net energy performance of photoelectrochemical water-splitting technology." Energy & Environmental Science (2016). LBNL-1006311.
Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Peter H Larsen, Eric R Masanet, Thomas E McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne Scown. "Spatially-explicit water balance implications of carbon capture and sequestration." Environmental Modelling & Software 75 (2016) 153 - 162. LBNL-1003871.

2015

Dale, Larry L, Nihan Karali, Dev Millstein, Michael Carnall, Sebastian Vicuña, Nicolas Borchers, Eduardo Bustos, Joe O’Hagan, David Purkey, Charles Heaps, Jack Sieber, William D Collins, and Michael D Sohn. "An integrated assessment of water-energy and climate change in Sacramento, California: How strong is the nexus?." Climatic Change 132.2 (2015) 223-235.
Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Samveg Saxena. "Autonomous taxis could greatly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions of US light-duty vehicles." Nature Climate Change 5.9 (2015) 860 - 863. LBNL-1006310.
Shah, Nihar, Max Wei, Virginie E Letschert, and Amol A Phadke. Benefits of Leapfrogging to Superefficiency and Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants in Room Air Conditioning. 2015. LBNL-1003671.

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Morrison, Geoffrey M, Sonia Yeh, Anthony R Eggert, Christopher Yang, James H Nelson, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Raphael Isaac, Mark Z Jacobson, Josiah Johnston, Daniel M Kammen, Ana Mileva, Jack Moore, David Roland-Holst, Max Wei, John P Weyant, James H Williams, Ray Williams, and Christina B Zapata. "Comparison of Low-Carbon Pathways for California." Climatic Change 131.4 (2015) 545-557.
Morrow, III, William R, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith. Manufacturing Cost Levelization Model – A User’s Guide. 2015. LBNL-187989.

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Greenblatt, Jeffery B. "Modeling California policy impacts on greenhouse gas emissions." Energy Policy 78 (2015) 158 - 172. LBNL-7008E.

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Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Susan Shaheen. "On-Demand Mobility, Autonomous Vehicles and Environmental Impacts." Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports 2.3 (2015) 74 - 81. LBNL-1006312.
Greenblatt, Jeffery B. Opportunities for Efficiency Improvements in the U.S. Natural Gas Transmission, Storage and Distribution System. 2015. LBNL-6990E.

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DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, James O'Donnell, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron. "United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings." Building and Environment 89 (2015) 107 - 117.

2014

Balbus, John M, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Ramya Chari, Dev Millstein, and Kristie L Ebi. "A wedge-based approach to estimating health co-benefits of climate change mitigation activities in the United States." Climatic Change 127.2 (2014) 199 - 210.

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