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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113167
	Great power, great responsibility: Assessing power sector policy for the UK's net zero target
	Ball-Burack, Ari; Salas, Pablo; Mercure, Jean-Francois
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0301-4215
EISSN	1873-6777
卷号	168 页码:12
英文摘要	UK power sector decarbonisation is an important step toward achieving the country's 2050 net zero target. Two uncertainties are particularly relevant to this effort: future electricity demand and biomass availability, the latter due to the potential for negative emissions in the power sector from biomass energy with carbon capture and storage. Using the dynamic simulation model FTT:Power, this work explores the impacts of different power sector policy portfolios on emissions, electricity prices, and government spending under these uncertainties. It finds that deep decarbonisation of the UK power sector is possible, including substantial negative emissions, but that this will require ambitious and diversified policy. Carbon pricing is found to be the single most important decarbonisation policy instrument. Direct regulatory phase-out of unabated fossil fuel power generation is similarly crucial for power sector decarbonisation, and for building resilience to biomass availability uncertainty. That said, under all policy portfolios biomass availability plays a key role in enabling net negative emissions in the power sector. This suggests the importance of securing and improving UK biomass supply, and of decarbonisation outside the power sector to reduce the need for negative emissions to begin with.
英文关键词	Climate policy; Emissions reductions pathways; Energy systems modelling; Negative emissions; Net zero
学科领域	Economics; Energy & Fuels; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000863251500014
来源期刊	ENERGY POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272369
作者单位	University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge; The World Bank; University of Exeter
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ball-Burack, Ari,Salas, Pablo,Mercure, Jean-Francois. Great power, great responsibility: Assessing power sector policy for the UK's net zero target[J],2022,168:12.
APA	Ball-Burack, Ari,Salas, Pablo,&Mercure, Jean-Francois.(2022).Great power, great responsibility: Assessing power sector policy for the UK's net zero target.ENERGY POLICY,168,12.
MLA	Ball-Burack, Ari,et al."Great power, great responsibility: Assessing power sector policy for the UK's net zero target".ENERGY POLICY 168(2022):12.