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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/aafbcf
	Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector
	Hanus N.L.; Wong-Parodi G.; Vaishnav P.T.; Darghouth N.R.; Azevedo I.L.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:4
英文摘要	Solar photovoltaic (PV) is an important strategy to de-carbonize the energy sector in the United States and to reduce the health, environmental, and climate change damages associated with the production of electricity from fossil fuel sources. While the potential for solar PV in the residential and commercial sectors has been widely studied, the potential in educational buildings is largely unknown. Educational institutions account for 11% of total US building electricity consumption and 14% of building floorspace. These buildings also contribute to approximately 4% of total US CO2 emissions, thus playing a potentially important role in climate mitigation strategies. We estimate the electricity use for 132k educational institutions across the US and estimate electricity generation, greenhouse gas and health damaging air emissions reductions, and private and social costs and benefits that would result from adopting rooftop solar PV. We find that solar PV in US educational institutions could provide 100 TWh of electricity services annually, meeting 75% of these buildings' current electricity consumption. We estimate the highest generation potential in Texas, California, and Florida with K-12 public educational institutions comprising the bulk of that generation. The provision of electricity services from rooftop solar PV on educational institutions could reduce health, environmental, and climate change damages by roughly $4 billion per year (assuming a social cost of carbon of $40/ton and value of statistical life of $10M in 2018 USD). Two key findings from this study are that: (i) the private costs of solar for educational institutions still exceed the private benefits from reduced electricity consumption across the entire country (unless a third party operation model is used, in which case some locations can have net-benefits), and (ii) with the exceptions of California and New York, the social health, environmental and climate change benefits exceed the levels of current incentives provided by the state and retail subsidies. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	climate change; education sector; health and environmental benefits; solar PV
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Buildings; Climate models; Cost benefit analysis; Cost reduction; Electric power generation; Electric power utilization; Fossil fuels; Gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Health; Solar power generation; Education sectors; Educational institutions; Electricity generation; Electricity-consumption; Environmental benefits; Private and social cost; Solar PVs; Value of statistical lives; Climate change; climate change; education; emission control; fossil fuel; greenhouse gas; photovoltaic system; solar power; strategic approach; United States
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154653
作者单位	Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 129 Baker Hall, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hanus N.L.,Wong-Parodi G.,Vaishnav P.T.,et al. Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector[J],2019,14(4).
APA	Hanus N.L.,Wong-Parodi G.,Vaishnav P.T.,Darghouth N.R.,&Azevedo I.L..(2019).Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector.Environmental Research Letters,14(4).
MLA	Hanus N.L.,et al."Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector".Environmental Research Letters 14.4(2019).