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8 Societal Transformation Pathways
8 Societal Transformation Pathways
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Pathways to successful decarbonization will require changes to social practices, values, behaviors, relationships, and institutions, and there will be distributional changes, winners and losers of the energy transition. Deep decarbonization will have profound social and economic implications for diverse groups and communities, and the decarbonization transition will offer extensive opportunities for improving the human condition and addressing historical social inequities built into these systems.
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Sutley mentioned a few challenges presented by SB100 for the incumbent infrastructure owners, including over generation of renewable energy sources that will require new electricity markets, upgrading the transmission and distribution systems, maintaining reliable electricity supply, and sensitivity to rate impacts for consumers. Sutley stated that deep decarbonization provides opportunities to address equity within the city by creating of 400,000 new jobs by 2050 in decarbonized technology sectors, targeting incentives to improve infrastructure and resources in disadvantaged communities, and improving resiliency to natural disasters and climate change with an enhanced distributed power generation system.
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FIGURE 8.1 LADWP total carbon dioxide emissions data and projections with California state-wide targets shown in orange. SOURCE: Nancy Sutley, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, presentation to the workshop; data derived from Los A ngeles Department of Water and Power, Power Integrated Resource Plan, 2016.
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Schapira stated her view that energy is a tool for impacting society, through which PEA can promote economic development, create jobs, alleviate poverty, and improve public health, as highlighted in Figure 8.2. In 2016, PEA launched the Philadelphia Energy Campaign, a $1 billion investment over 10 years in energy efficiency and clean energy projects, focused on municipal buildings, K-12 schools, affordable housing, and small businesses.
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FIGURE 8.2 PEA's view of energy as a tool for economic and social impact. 1 SOURCE: Emily Schapira, Philadelphia Energy Authority, presentation to the workshop.
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72 • $1 billion investment over 10 years in energy efficiency and clean energy projects, leveraging public and private dollars • 10,000 jobs • 25,000 households • 2,500 small businesses • Results from first 2 years: AFFORDABLE / LMI • $101 million in active projects • 984 total jobs • Often self‐funding projects FIGURE 8.3 The Philadelphia Energy Campaign goals and early results. SOURCE: Emily Schapira, Philadelphia Energy Authority, presentation to the workshop.
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Schapira concluded by describing a multi-family affordable housing pilot, in which PEA supported the building owners of four apartment properties to reduce their energy consumption by investing in energy efficiency and smart grid technologies, resulting in 15-30 percent energy savings that benefitted the renters, funded primarily by utility rebates. In addition, PEA launched a water and sewer line protection program that provides a warranty on underground residential pipes for which homeowners in Philadelphia are responsible.
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She noted that replacing a coal power plant with a solar generation facility would drastically lower the property tax revenue coming in to the local government. A 100 MW solar plant would replace only 30 percent of the lost coal generation taxes, partially because incentives offered to the industry, but also because many state policies make it difficult for communities to do anything but lower property taxes.
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Haggerty pointed to the coordinated effort by Western and Pacific Northwest governors to responsibly create coal plant infrastructure by advocating for federal regulations and state fiscal regimes to standardize life cycle assessment of these technologies and ensure environ ental m responsibility. This project typified the urban-rural social contract that outlined the players and their role in running the region's energy infrastructure in the 1970s.
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Haggerty said that regarding the social cost and benefit accounting for different generation technologies, there have been a few national scale studies, but her own work is very focused on applied questions, like how to fund the school district in a small town the year after a coal plant closes. She concluded that you cannot currently in most western states replace the revenues associated with these large capital intensive fossil fuel facilities that also have a fuel tax, with new renewable facilities that do not have a fuel tax and that have high upfront rebates on their property tax value.
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As alifornia water often needs to be pumped over mountains to reach C consumers, they are considering recycled water, storm water capture, and ground water recovery efforts to save on energy costs. LADWP has concluded that local sources of water will help in decarbonization efforts, and they have set a goal of increasing local water supply from 15 percent to 50 percent of their total supply by 2030.
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