CET Lunch (POSTPONED): Anticipating energy transitions as if both technology and politics mattered.
This CET Lunch is postponed to a later date. Welcome to our hybrid CET Lunch seminar with Jessica Jewell, Associate Professor, Chalmers University and Professor II at CET.

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Our speaker will attend in person. Participants can sign up and tune in via stream, or turn up at CET where lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.
Low-carbon energy transitions are shaped by non-linear mechanisms associated with technological change and politics. In this talk, I explore how to account for both in anticipating energy transitions and identifying the policy effort needed to reach the Paris Climate targets with examples from coal phase-out and renewable energy expansion. For coal phase-out, I show how just energy transition policies offer a unique empirical window into the policy cost of overcoming vested interests; I then explore how much it would cost to extend these types of policies to China and India, the largest coal producers in the world. For solar and wind power, I show how in technology frontrunners, opposing factors like social acceptance are already starting to counteract the cost declines of both technologies; I then show how these early signals can be used to anticipate the global diffusion of solar and wind power. Together, these cases point to an interesting research direction of using policy and technology experience within the pioneers of the low-carbon transition to understand the policy effort needed to keep warming at acceptable levels.
About the speaker
Jessica Jewell is an Associate Professor in Energy Transitions at the Department of Space, Earth and Environment at Chalmers University and a Professor at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen. Her research focuses on the feasibility of climate action and quantifying the dynamics and mechanisms of energy transitions using a variety of disciplinary approaches and methods. She is a recipient of a European Research Council's Starting Grant as well as the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council and a leader of work packages in collaborative research projects supported by European and Swedish funding agencies.