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Long-run Marginal CO2 Emission Rates Workbooks for 2020 Standard Scenarios Cambium Data
Abstract
These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal CO2 emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. The LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a long-term (i.e., more than several years) change in electrical demand. It incorporates both the projected changes to the electric grid, as well as the potential for an incremental change in electrical demand to influence the structural evolution of the grid (i.e., the building and retiring of capital assets, such as generators and transmission lines). It is therefore distinct from the more-commonly-known short-run marginal, which treats grid assets as fixed. In addition to year-over-year data, the Levelized LRMER worksheet within each workbook is set up to produce a levelized long-run marginal emission rate based on user-provided inputs. These levelized LRMER values are intended for analysts to use when estimating the emissions induced (or avoided) by a long-term change in end-use electricity demand. Three future scenarios are provided in separate workbooks: A Mid-case (i.e., business-as-usual), and two scenarios with relatively higher or lower renewable energy costs. For more details on these scenarios, see the Standard Scenarios 2020 Report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/77442.pdf). For more data underlying each scenario, seemore »
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- FY21 AOP 2.4.0.1
- DOE Contract Number:
- FY21 AOP 2.4.0.1
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Subject:
- 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
- Keywords:
- greenhouse gas emissions; ReEDS; Long-run; Marginal emissions; Cambium; NREL; CO2; PLEXOS
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1813032
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.7799/1813032
Citation Formats
Gagnon, Pieter, Frazier, Will, Hale, Elaine, and Cole, Wesley. Long-run Marginal CO2 Emission Rates Workbooks for 2020 Standard Scenarios Cambium Data. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.7799/1813032.
Gagnon, Pieter, Frazier, Will, Hale, Elaine, & Cole, Wesley. Long-run Marginal CO2 Emission Rates Workbooks for 2020 Standard Scenarios Cambium Data. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/1813032
Gagnon, Pieter, Frazier, Will, Hale, Elaine, and Cole, Wesley. 2021.
"Long-run Marginal CO2 Emission Rates Workbooks for 2020 Standard Scenarios Cambium Data". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/1813032. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1813032. Pub date:Thu Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2021
@article{osti_1813032,
title = {Long-run Marginal CO2 Emission Rates Workbooks for 2020 Standard Scenarios Cambium Data},
author = {Gagnon, Pieter and Frazier, Will and Hale, Elaine and Cole, Wesley},
abstractNote = {These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal CO2 emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. The LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a long-term (i.e., more than several years) change in electrical demand. It incorporates both the projected changes to the electric grid, as well as the potential for an incremental change in electrical demand to influence the structural evolution of the grid (i.e., the building and retiring of capital assets, such as generators and transmission lines). It is therefore distinct from the more-commonly-known short-run marginal, which treats grid assets as fixed. In addition to year-over-year data, the Levelized LRMER worksheet within each workbook is set up to produce a levelized long-run marginal emission rate based on user-provided inputs. These levelized LRMER values are intended for analysts to use when estimating the emissions induced (or avoided) by a long-term change in end-use electricity demand. Three future scenarios are provided in separate workbooks: A Mid-case (i.e., business-as-usual), and two scenarios with relatively higher or lower renewable energy costs. For more details on these scenarios, see the Standard Scenarios 2020 Report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/77442.pdf). For more data underlying each scenario, see the Standard Scenarios 2020 project (Cambium data) at https://cambium.nrel.gov/. This data was produced as part of the Cambium project. For more details about the methodology, see the Cambium Documentation: Version 2020 (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/78239.pdf). This data is planned to be updated annually. Information on the latest versions can be found at https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/cambium.html.},
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