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Mulvaney, D. (2020). Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization. Palgrave Macmillan,

About Sustainable Energy Transitions: This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions. Starting with the basic biophysical principles, current sources and environmental consequences of existing energy resource use, the book takes readers through the key questions and topics needed to understand, prescribe, and advocate just and sustainable energy solutions. The interdisciplinary nature of the book aims to build bridges across the social and natural sciences and humanities, bringing together perspectives, ideas and concepts from engineering, economics, and life cycle assessment to sociology, political science, anthropology, policy studies, the humanities, arts, and some interdisciplinary thinkers that defy categories. This accessible approach fills the gap for a textbook that integrates sustainability science and engineering studies with strong empirical social science and it will be a useful tool to anyone interested in the socioecological dimensions of energy system transitions. Read a sample from Google Books.

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**Energy Transitions**

**Lecture**
**Other resources used in this course:**
- **Energy Transition Show podcas**t
***Further reading***
Smil, V., 2016. Examining energy transitions: A dozen insights based on performance. Energy Research & Social Science, 22, pp.194–197.
Sovacool, B. 2016 How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science, 13, pp.202–215
Mulvaney, D., Busby, J., & Bazilian, M. D. (2020). Pandemic disruptions in energy and the environment. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8(1): 052. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.052
Kallis, G., 2011. In defense of degrowth. Ecological Economics, 70(5), pp.873–880
Salleh, A., & O'Connor, M. (1991). Eco-socialism/Eco-feminism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 2, 1, pp. 129-137.
***Further listening***
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #81] – Principles of Energy Transition
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #123] – Sustainable Energy Transitions

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Dimensional Analysis & Unit Conversions**
***Further reading***
https://www.withouthotair.com/
***Further listening***
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #119] – Energy Basics Parts 1–3

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**Lecture**
**Assignment** **– Supply Chains, Sustainability, & Environmental Justice**
***Further reading***
Jenkins, K., McCauley, D., Heffron, R., Stephan, H., & Rehner, R. (2016). Energy justice: A conceptual review. Energy Research & Social Science, 11, 174-182.
Riofrancos, T. (2022). The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North. Global Environmental Politics, 1-22.
Sultana, F. (2022). Critical climate justice. The Geographical Journal, 188(1), 118-124.
Powell, D. E. (2018). Landscapes of Power. Duke University Press.
Sovacool, B. K. (2014). Diversity: Energy studies need social science. *Nature News*, *511*(7511), 529.
***Further listening***
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #99] – Metals Supply in Energy Transition

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**Lecture**
**Assignments - Measuring Carbon Intensity**
***Further reading***
Busby, J., M. Bazilian, D. Mulvaney. 2020. Energy Transition: Coal as the Canary. Yale Global. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/energy-transition-coal-canary
Chattopadhyay, D., Bazilian, M. D., Handler, B., & Govindarajalu, C. (2021). Accelerating the coal transition. *The Electricity Journal*, 34(2), 106906.
***Further listening***
**Listen:** ETS [Episode #113] – Coal Plant Self-Scheduling
**Listen:** ETS [Episode #109] – Big Oil’s Climate Denial Machine

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Estimating the resource potential of renewables**
***Further reading***
The key to tackling climate change: electrify everything
Mackay Miller. Electrification: its role in deeply decarbonized energy systems
Keeping the balance: How flexible nuclear operation can help add more wind and solar to the grid
***Further listening***
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #132] – The Future of Solar
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #30] – The Future of Wind

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Life Cycle Assessment**
**Further reading**
Grubert, E., & Sanders, K. T. (2018). Water use in the United States energy system: A national assessment and unit process inventory of water consumption and withdrawals. Environmental science & technology, 52(11), 6695-6703.
Vaclav Smil 2010-power-density-primer
**Further listening**
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #59] - Life Cycle Assessment
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #7] – EROI

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**Lecture**
**Assignment**
***Further reading***
Stokes, L. C. (2020). *Short circuiting policy: Interest groups and the battle over clean energy and climate policy in the American States*. Oxford University Press, USA.
Lazar. 2016. Teaching the Duck to Fly
Felicity Barringer. 2021. What it May Take to Harness Solar Energy on Native Lands. West Center.
Turley, B., Cantor, A., Berry, K., Knuth, S., Mulvaney, D., & Vineyard, N. (2022). Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 90, 102583.
Roberts. Transmission fortnight: burying power lines next to rail & roads to make a national transmission grid.
Tabassum-Abbasi, Premalatha, M., Abbasi, T., & Abbasi, S. A. (2014). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 31(C), 270–288.
***Further listening***
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #121] – Winning and Losing the Policy Game
**Listen:** [Episode #46] – Is 100% Renewables Realistic?

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**Lecture**
**Assignment - Well-to-Wheels**
***Further reading***
Sperling, D., & Eggert, A. (2014). California's climate and energy policy for transportation. Energy Strategy Reviews, 5, 88-94.
Sheehan, J. J. (2009). Sustainable biofuels: a commonsense perspective on California’s approach to biofuels & global land use. Industrial biotechnology, 5(2), 93-103.
***Further listening***
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #75] – Transportation Transition
**Listen:** ETS podcast [Episode #84] – Designing Climate Solutions
**Listen:** One Planet podcast - What are the environmental impacts of biofuel production?

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**Lecture**
**Assignment**
***Further reading***
Harvey, H., Orvis, R., & Rissman, J. (2018). *Designing climate solutions: a policy guide for low-carbon energy*. Island Press.
***Further listening***
**Listen** ETS podcast [Episode #25] – The Energy-Water Nexus

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**Lecture**
***Further reading***
Lennon, M. (2017). Decolonizing energy: Black Lives Matter and technoscientific expertise amid solar transitions. Energy research & social science, 30, 18-27.
Luke, N., & Heynen, N. (2020). Community solar as energy reparations: abolishing petro-racial capitalism in New Orleans. American Quarterly, 72(3), 603-625.
Hoffacker, M. K., Allen, M. F., & Hernandez, R. R. (2017). Land-sparing opportunities for solar energy development in agricultural landscapes: a case study of the Great Central Valley, CA, United States. Environmental science & technology, 51(24), 14472-14482
***Further listening***
- **Listen:** ETS podcast, Making Policy Work interview with Danny Cullenward