Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts
Current strategies for deep decarbonization of the residential building sector invoke the following three pillars of action: (1) radically improve the efficiency of end-use electricity consumption, (2) shift to 100% renewable generation of electrical grid power, and (3) move aggressively to electrif...
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| description | Current strategies for deep decarbonization of the residential building sector invoke the following three pillars of action: (1) radically improve the efficiency of end-use electricity consumption, (2) shift to 100% renewable generation of electrical grid power, and (3) move aggressively to electrify all remaining fossil fuel end-uses. Due to the previous unavailability of high temporal resolution natural gas consumption data, the pursuit of this policy agenda has largely occurred in the absence of a thorough understanding of hourly variations in the intensity of household natural gas use. These variations can have important downstream impacts on the electricity system once electrification has been achieved. This study presents a series of analyses which are based upon a novel dataset of hourly interval natural consumption data obtained for (N = 17,072) households located within a low-income portion of Southern California Gas Company’s service territory. Results indicate that diurnal patterns of hourly natural gas use largely coincide with the timing of daily peak electricity loads. These findings suggest that the aggressive electrification of residential end-use appliances has the potential to exacerbate daily peak electricity demand, increase total household expenditures on energy, and, in the absence of a fully decarbonized electrical grid, likely result in only limited greenhouse gas emissions abatement benefits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-53df8e7685224584925292458a0a06c62023-08-09T14:52:58ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262020-01-01151212400810.1088/1748-9326/aba1c0Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification effortsEric Daniel Fournier0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4117-0121Robert Cudd1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0552-7904Felicia Federico2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0300-3293Stephanie Pincetl3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8660-4803California Center for Sustainable Communities, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability , Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of AmericaCalifornia Center for Sustainable Communities, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability , Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of AmericaCalifornia Center for Sustainable Communities, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability , Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of AmericaCalifornia Center for Sustainable Communities, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability , Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of AmericaCurrent strategies for deep decarbonization of the residential building sector invoke the following three pillars of action: (1) radically improve the efficiency of end-use electricity consumption, (2) shift to 100% renewable generation of electrical grid power, and (3) move aggressively to electrify all remaining fossil fuel end-uses. Due to the previous unavailability of high temporal resolution natural gas consumption data, the pursuit of this policy agenda has largely occurred in the absence of a thorough understanding of hourly variations in the intensity of household natural gas use. These variations can have important downstream impacts on the electricity system once electrification has been achieved. This study presents a series of analyses which are based upon a novel dataset of hourly interval natural consumption data obtained for (N = 17,072) households located within a low-income portion of Southern California Gas Company’s service territory. Results indicate that diurnal patterns of hourly natural gas use largely coincide with the timing of daily peak electricity loads. These findings suggest that the aggressive electrification of residential end-use appliances has the potential to exacerbate daily peak electricity demand, increase total household expenditures on energy, and, in the absence of a fully decarbonized electrical grid, likely result in only limited greenhouse gas emissions abatement benefits.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba1c0decarbonizationresidential building energyhourly dataelectricitynatural gaselectrification |
| spellingShingle | Eric Daniel Fournier Robert Cudd Felicia Federico Stephanie Pincetl Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts Environmental Research Letters decarbonization residential building energy hourly data electricity natural gas electrification |
| title | Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts |
| title_full | Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts |
| title_fullStr | Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts |
| title_short | Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts |
| title_sort | implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts |
| topic | decarbonization residential building energy hourly data electricity natural gas electrification |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba1c0 |
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