Climate Change Strategies & Policies

2020

Dobson, Patrick, Dipankar Dwivedi, Dev Millstein, Nandini Krishnaswamy, Julio Garcia, and Mariam Kiran. "Analysis of curtailment at The Geysers geothermal Field, California." Geothermics 87 (2020) 101871.
Purohit, Pallav, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, John Dulac, Nihar Shah, Max Wei, Peter Rafaj, and Wolfgang Schöpp. "Electricity savings and greenhouse gas emission reductions from global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20.19 (2020) 11305 - 11327.

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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.
Wang, Meina, Paul Ullrich, and Dev Millstein. "Future projections of wind patterns in California with the variable-resolution CESM: a clustering analysis approach." Climate Dynamics 54.3-4 (2020) 2511 - 2531.

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Wei, Max, Douglas R Black, John Elliott, Howdy Goudey, Steve E Greenberg, and Adam Z Weber. Improving Energy System Resilience at Berkeley Lab and Beyond. 2020.

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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).

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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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