AGREA Renewable Energy Research

Our most recent research in renewables focuses on the avoided emissions attributable to wind and solar generation, and by extension biomass and energy efficiency.

Avoided Emisssions from Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Systems

In 2004, we completed a study for the US EPA where we looked at which fossil/thermal power plants would be offset by Solar PV generation (or any other renewables or energy efficiency for that matter). As the large and colorful report and appendicies show, this is not a simple task.

 

Hourly Fossil MWh, PV kWh, SO2 and CO2 Emissions
—Ohio Valley - 2002—

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  Emissions Reductions from
    Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
      Connors S., Martin K., Adams M.,
            Kern E. and Asiamah-Adjeh B.

• Executive Summary and Table of Contents
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003a_RP.pdf (284 kB )
  
• Report w/o Appendicies
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003a_RP.pdf (3.6 MB )
  
  ... The Appendicies include the cool figures at right ...
   
• Appendicies A, BI, BII
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003b_A-BII.pdf (3.5 MB )
  
• Appendix BIIIa
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003c_BIIIa.pdf (9.8 MB )
    
• Appendix BIIIb
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003d_BIIIb.pdf (4.3 MB )
  
• Appendix BIIIc
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003e_BIIIc.pdf (4.3 MB )
    
• Appendicies BIV and BV
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003f_BIV-BV.pdf (1.5 MB )
  
• Appendix BVI
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003g_BVI.pdf (6.5 MB )
    
• Appendicies BVII and BVIII
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003h_BVII-BVIII.pdf (3.5 MB )
  
• Appendicies BIX, BX, BXI and BXII
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003i_BIX-XII.pdf (4.5 MB )
    
• Appendix C (Scripts and Codes)
     MIT-LFEE_2004-003j_Code.pdf (0.3 MB )
   

 

New England Avoided Emissions Thumbnail

• The thumbnail at right, and attached document "Avoided Emission Rates for New England
  (NEWE)" (740 kB) illustrates how the detailed
  information in the above report could be distilled
  into numbers for use by renewable and end-use
  efficiency project developers.
   
   
• A paper (Future Electricity Supplies) which discusses the overall power system implications
   of this research can be accessed here: Steve Connors - Select Papers