scholarly journals Transportation Energy Futures Series: Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Expansion: Costs, Resources, Production Capacity, and Retail Availability for Low-Carbon Scenarios

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc W. Melaina ◽  
Garvin Heath ◽  
Debra Sandor ◽  
Darlene Steward ◽  
Laura Vimmerstedt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Capacity ◽  
Alternative Fuel ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transportation Energy ◽  
Energy Futures

scholarly journals Transportation Energy Futures Series: Freight Transportation Modal Shares: Scenarios for a Low-Carbon Future

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Brogan ◽  
Andreas E. Aeppli ◽  
Daniel F. Beagan ◽  
Austin Brown ◽  
Michael J. Fischer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Freight Transportation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transportation Energy ◽  
Energy Futures

scholarly journals Transportation Energy Futures: Freight Transportation Modal Shares: Scenarios for a Low-Carbon Future

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Brogan ◽  
A. E. Aeppli ◽  
D. F. Brown ◽  
M. J. Fischer ◽  
L. R. Grenzeback ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Freight Transportation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transportation Energy ◽  
Energy Futures

Joint DOE/NRCan study of North American transportation energy futures: Discussion of the study, presentation of Phase 2 results

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Patterson ◽  
David Greene ◽  
Elyse Steiner ◽  
Steve Plotkin ◽  
Margaret Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Transportation Energy ◽  
Energy Futures

scholarly journals Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110059
Author(s):  
Leslie Quitzow ◽  
Friederike Rohde
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Futures ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
The City

Current imaginaries of urban smart grid technologies are painting attractive pictures of the kinds of energy futures that are desirable and attainable in cities. Making claims about the future city, the socio-technical imaginaries related to smart grid developments unfold the power to guide urban energy policymaking and implementation practices. This paper analyses how urban smart grid futures are being imagined and co-produced in the city of Berlin, Germany. It explores these imaginaries to show how the politics of Berlin’s urban energy transition are being driven by techno-optimistic visions of the city’s digital modernisation and its ambitions to become a ‘smart city’. The analysis is based on a discourse analysis of relevant urban policy and other documents, as well as interviews with key stakeholders from Berlin’s energy, ICT and urban development sectors, including key experts from three urban laboratories for smart grid development and implementation in the city. It identifies three dominant imaginaries that depict urban smart grid technologies as (a) environmental solution, (b) economic imperative and (c) exciting experimental challenge. The paper concludes that dominant imaginaries of smart grid technologies in the city are grounded in a techno-optimistic approach to urban development that are foreclosing more subtle alternatives or perhaps more radical change towards low-carbon energy systems.

Alternative fuel options for low carbon maritime transportation: Pathways to 2050

2021 ◽  
Vol 297 ◽  
pp. 126651
Author(s):  
Hui Xing ◽  
Charles Stuart ◽  
Stephen Spence ◽  
Hua Chen
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Fuel ◽  
Maritime Transportation ◽  
Low Carbon

scholarly journals Transportation Energy Futures

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 375-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Sperling ◽  
M A DeLuchi
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Energy ◽  
Energy Futures

scholarly journals Sociotechnical imaginaries of low-carbon waste-energy futures: UK techno-market fixes displacing public accountability

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-641
Author(s):  
Les Levidow ◽  
Sujatha Raman
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
Energy Futures ◽  
Sociotechnical Imaginaries ◽  
Waste Energy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies

To implement EU climate policy, the UK’s New Labour government (1997–2010) elaborated an ecomodernist policy framework. It promoted technological innovation to provide low-carbon renewable energy, especially by treating waste as a resource. This framework discursively accommodated rival sociotechnical imaginaries, understood as visions of feasible and desirable futures available through technoscientific development. According to the dominant imaginary, techno-market fixes stimulate low-carbon technologies by making current centralized systems more resource-efficient (as promoted by industry incumbents). According to the alternative eco-localization imaginary, a shift to low-carbon systems should instead localize resource flows, output uses and institutional responsibility (as promoted by civil society groups). The UK government policy framework gained political authority by accommodating both imaginaries. As we show by drawing on three case studies, the realization of both imaginaries depended on institutional changes and material-economic resources of distinctive kinds. In practice, financial incentives drove technological design towards trajectories that favour the dominant sociotechnical imaginary, while marginalizing the eco-localization imaginary and its environmental benefits. The ecomodernist policy framework relegates responsibility to anonymous markets, thus displacing public accountability of the state and industry. These dynamics indicate the need for STS research on how alternative sociotechnical imaginaries mobilize support for their realization, rather than be absorbed into the dominant imaginary.

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