Presentation by Dr. Elisabeth Moyer, University of Chicago | The U.S. #energy sector is very capital-intensive and involves long-lived infrastructure. The pace and timing of an #energytransition is likely constrained or affected by the amount of #infrastructure required to be built, and the cost is likely affected by the amount of infrastructure that may no longer be needed. Research from the University of Chicago's Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP) looks at two questions motivated by potential future energy transitions. First, how has the U.S. energy system changed in the past--for example, what caused major transitions, how fast did they occur, what were the constraints? Second, what infrastructure would need to be changed (built and discarded) to produce an energy transition now? The U.S. has undergone multiple well-documented energy transitions over the course of its #history. Two #archivalresearch projects (one examining energy flows over time, one examining long-lived energy infrastructure) tap into #historicaldata to provide insight on considerations for a future transition away from fossil fuels.
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0:00-0:24 - Introduction
0:24-18:54 - Presentation
18:54-26:18 - Audience Q&A

About the Presenter: Dr. Moyer is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the director of the university's Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP). Dr. Moyer’s research includes climate response to greenhouse-gas forcing; development of tools for impacts assessment; statistical emulation of climate model output; and climate and energy policy evaluation. Dr. Moyer has a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology, and undergraduate degrees in Physics and Anthropology from Stanford University.

This presentation was a part of the Energy Data Analytics Symposium hosted by Duke University on December 8-9, 2020. The Symposium’s theme was “Transforming Energy Systems with Data Science Techniques.”

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