Clean Energy Transition for Transportation Systems: Modeling Implications

Conference · Mon Aug 15 00:00:00 UTC 2022

OSTI ID:1882674

Muratori, Matteo

Transportation is currently the least-diversified energy demand sector, with over 90% of energy use coming from petroleum. As a result, transportation recently became the largest source of GHG emissions in the U.S. and mobility needs for passenger and freight are growing rapidly. However, after over a century of petroleum dominance, new disruptive technologies and business models offer a pathway to decarbonize the sector. Transportation is at a turning point. On the horizon lies a future where affordable and abundant renewable electricity can be used to power cost-competitive battery electric vehicles (EVs) and produce energy-dense low-carbon fuels enabling to fully decarbonize transportation systems across all modes. Exploring the clean energy transition for the multitude of different transportation systems requires new analytical modeling and approaches. This talk reviewed current work at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop and use innovative tools and analytics approaches to inform the transformation to a sustainable mobility future and the integration of transportation systems with the broader energy sector.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1882674
• Report Number(s): NREL/PR-5400-83598; MainId:84371; UUID:e48dd10d-2bc0-43f5-975b-3b212487a13f; MainAdminID:65122
• Conference Information: Presented at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Scenario Forum, 20-22 June 2022, Laxenburg, Austria
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
clean energy transition
sustainable mobility