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SUMMARY:The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the bla
 ck box of energy technologies - Professor Laura Diaz Anadon\, Department o
 f Land Economy\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20180626T133000Z
DTEND:20180626T143000Z
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CONTACT:Nalin Patel
DESCRIPTION:Laura Diaz Anadon\, Professor of Climate Change Policy\, Unive
 rsity of Cambridge\, will lead a discussion on how government policy shape
 s energy technology progress and\, in turn\, how technology characteristic
 s affect the ability of governments to meet different energy goals.\n\nAbs
 tract\n\nThis talk will present a paper explaining why China has about twi
 ce the installed wind capacity in the United States but gets about the sam
 e energy out.  We develop a framework to explain the performance of the Ch
 inese and US wind sectors\, accounting for a comprehensive set of driving 
 factors. We apply this framework to a novel dataset of virtually all wind 
 farms installed in China and the United States through the end of 2013. We
  first estimate the wind sector’s technical potential using a methodolog
 y that produces consistent estimates for both countries. Our findings unde
 rscore that the larger gap between actual performance and technical potent
 ial in China compared to the United States is significantly driven by dela
 ys in grid connection (14% of the gap) and curtailment due to constraints 
 in grid management (10% of the gap)\, two challenges of China’s wind pow
 er expansion covered extensively in the literature. However\, our findings
  show that China’s underperformance is also driven by suboptimal turbine
  model selection (31% of the gap)\, wind farm siting (23% of the gap)\, an
 d turbine hub heights (6% of the gap)—factors that have received less at
 tention in the literature and\, crucially\, are locked-in for the lifetime
  of wind farms. This suggests that besides addressing grid connection dela
 ys and curtailment\, China will also need policy measures to address turbi
 ne siting and technology choices to achieve its national goals and increas
 e utilization up to US levels.  \n\nLink is to the paper.\n\nhttp://iopsci
 ence.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaadeb/pdf\n\nBio\n\nProfessor Laur
 a Diaz Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at 
 the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridg
 e she is also a Bye-Fellow at Peterhouse\, a Fellow at C-EENRG\, and an as
 sociate researcher of the Energy Policy Research Group. She is also a Rese
 arch Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 
 at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) at Harvard University.\n\n \nRefreshme
 nts will be available and all are welcome to join the discussion.
LOCATION:Maxwell Centre\, Rayleigh Seminar Room
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