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GLIMPSE information session #4: Applications - Clean Electricity Standard and Vehicle Electrification Target
Citation:
Loughlin, Dan. GLIMPSE information session #4: Applications - Clean Electricity Standard and Vehicle Electrification Target. GLIMPSE information session #4: Applications - Clean Electricity Standard and Vehicle Electrification Target, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, August 02, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
GLIMPSE is prototype air-climate-energy planning tool that is being developed within the U.S. EPA's Office of Research and Development. The purpose of this series of presentations is to provide an update on GLIMPSE development and applications. Attendees are expected to include Program Office and Regional colleagues, state air quality and climate planning staff, and several university researchers and educators.
Description:
GLIMPSE (the GCAM Long-term Interactive Multi-Pollutant Scenario Evaluator) is a decision support tool for considering environmental, climate, and energy goals in long-range planning. Using GLIMPSE, decisionmakers and analysts at the national, regional, and state level examine potential policies, investigate the impacts of emerging technologies, and develop cost-effective strategies for meeting air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation targets simultaneously. Additionally, GLIMPSE can be used in a classroom setting, providing students with the ability to use a state-of-the-art human-Earth systems model to investigate alternative scenarios of the future. GLIMPSE is built around the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM), an open source, publicly available integrated assessment model. Human systems represented in GCAM include electricity production, industry, transportation, buildings, agriculture, and labor. Natural systems include water and climate. In this presentation, an illustrative application is described. In the application, a hypothetical Clean Energy Standard (CES) and a Vehicle Electrification target are applied to states in the Southeast U.S. (VA, NC, SC, GA, and FL). The impacts of the policies on regional electricity production and electric vehicle market shares are investigated, as are the resulting net carbon dioxide and air pollutant emissions. Next steps in the analysis are discussed, including exploring alternative assumptions about the technologies that fall under the CES, the prospects of nuclear power expansion, and the role of offshore wind.