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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6d
	Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs
	Pai S.; Zerriffi H.; Jewell J.; Pathak J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:3
英文摘要	Coal mining directly employs over 7 million workers and benefits millions more through indirect jobs. However, to meet the 1.5 °C global climate target, coal's share in global energy supply should decline between 73% and 97% by 2050. But what will happen to coal miners as coal jobs disappear ?Answering this question is necessary to ensure a just transition and to ensure that politically powerful coal mining interests do not impede energy transitions. Some suggest that coal miners can transition to renewable jobs. However, prior research has not investigated the potential for renewable jobs to replace 'local' coal mining jobs. Historic analyses of coal industry declines show that coal miners do not migrate when they lose their jobs. By focusing on China, India, the US, and Australia, which represent 70% of global coal production, we investigate: (1) the local solar and wind capacity required in each coal mining area to enable all coal miners to transition to solar/wind jobs; (2) whether there are suitable solar and wind power resources in coal mining areas in order to install solar/wind plants and create those jobs; and (3) the scale of renewables deployment required to transition coal miners in areas suitable for solar/wind power. We find that with the exception of the US, several GWs of solar or wind capacity would be required in each coal mining area to transition all coal miners to solar/wind jobs. Moreover, while solar has more resource suitability than wind in coal mining areas, these resources are not available everywhere. In China, the country with the largest coal mining workforce, only 29% of coal mining areas are suitable for solar power. In all four countries, less than 7% of coal mining areas have suitable wind resources. Further, countries would have to scale-up their current solar capacity significantly to transition coal miners who work in areas suitable for solar development. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	climate change; coal miners; energy transitions; just transitions; solar jobs; wind jobs
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate change; Coal; Coal industry; Coal mines; Miners; Solar energy; Wind power; Coal miners; Coal mining area; Coal production; Energy transitions; Solar and winds; solar jobs; Solar/Wind Power; Techno-economics; Coal deposits; climate change; coal industry; coal mining; economic conditions; global climate; solar power; wind power; Australia; China; India; United States
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154180
作者单位	Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St, Golden, CO 80401, United States; Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Division of Physical Resource Theory, Sweden Chalmers University, Gothenburg, SE-412 96, Sweden; Centre for Climate and Energy Transformations and Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences Postbox 7802, University of Bergen, Bergen, NO-5020, Norway; Risk and Resilience Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, Laxeburg, A-2360, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pai S.,Zerriffi H.,Jewell J.,et al. Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs[J],2020,15(3).
APA	Pai S.,Zerriffi H.,Jewell J.,&Pathak J..(2020).Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs.Environmental Research Letters,15(3).
MLA	Pai S.,et al."Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs".Environmental Research Letters 15.3(2020).