Energy Transition

Seeking to Inform India's Climate Policy Choices

Fulfilling the promise of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change—most notably the goal of limiting the rise in mean global surface temperature since preindustrial times to two degrees Celsius—will require a dramatic transition away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon energy sources.

Mapping Out a Low-Carbon Future

Christoph Tries

Jessica Farrell

The project enhances the U.S. Regional Energy Policy (USREP) model that identifies states and multi-state regions in the US.

U.S. Regional Energy Model

The project contributes to the MIT study, Mobility of the Future, and seeks to examine interactions among vehicle power train technologies, fuel options, refueling infrastructure, consumer choice, public transit, new transportation modalities, and government policy. A major driver of future change is policy related to climate change and environmental concerns.

Mobility of the Future: Global Economic and Policy Modeling

The project assesses the economic and environmental impacts of scaling-up low-carbon technologies. Assessments of future energy generation should be evaluated on their feasibility not only at local scales, but also at the needed continental to global-wide deployment scales. The Energy at Scale project relies on a substantial experience and expertise of researches at the MIT Joint Program to identify challenges, hazards, and potential barriers to low-carbon options deployed at continental to global scales – and in doing so provide guidance toward economically viable solutions.

Energy at Scale

This project is developing regional economic projection and policy assessment models to investigate sustainable development pathways and investments for countries in Africa, and decision-making under uncertainty, with the goal of evaluating risks to different investment options in energy and water. The work involves development of a disaggregated model of Africa with policy and energy simulation; a review of decision-making under uncertainty methods; and an application of the method to selected countries (Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal).

Climate, Land, Energy, Water and Development in Africa

The research objective is to examine the effects of energy and climate policies in Taiwan, an important manufacturing economy heavily exposed to international trade. This collaboration will engage the expertise of the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER) of Taiwan to build a global energy economic model where Taiwan is explicitly identified, based on the latest version of the MIT Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, version 6.

Economic and Energy Prospects of Taiwan in the 21st Century: A Global Modeling Approach Based on the MIT EPPA Model

Last spring Joint Program Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist C. Adam Schlosser and colleagues published a paper in the journal PLOS One that projected a “high risk of severe water stress” in much of Asia by midcentury.

Adam Schlosser: Modeling Plausible Futures

MIT Global Change

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