Research Catalog

Title

Scenario development for the 2015 Quadrennial Energy Review : assessing stresses, opportunities, and resilience in the transmission, storage, and distribution systems for oil and refined-oil products, electricity, and natural gas / Keith Crane, Debra Knopman, Nicholas Burger, Anu Narayanan, James D. Powers, Henry H. Willis.

Author

Crane, Keith, 1953-

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Knopman, Debra S.
• Burger, Nicholas
• Narayanan, Anu
• Powers, James D.
• Willis, Henry H.
• Rand Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment (Organization), issuing body.

Description

xx, 66 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 28 cm

Summary

"The purpose of this analysis was to help the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis assess how energy transmission, storage, and distribution (TS&D) systems might perform under high-stress scenarios in which major shifts in energy demand, supply, or other uncertain factors have the potential to dramatically change the U.S. energy system by 2030. RAND researchers developed an analytical framework and associated metrics for examining vulnerabilities, opportunities, and risks to U.S. TS&D systems through 2030 under a range of uncertainties. They assessed major stresses on and opportunities in three major TS&D systems: oil and refined-oil products, electric power, and natural gas. Separately, they also considered the resilience that these systems have to short-term shocks and disruptions. This analysis was requested to support the 2015 Quadrennial Energy Review (QER). The QER, which, in its first volume, focuses on energy TS&D systems, is a federal government initiative to systematically examine energy system performance and explore options to improve that performance to address 21st-century objectives"--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Research report ; RR-1286-DOE

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1286-DOE.

Alternative Title

Assessing stresses, opportunities, and resilience in the transmission, storage, and distribution systems for oil and refined oil products, electricity, and natural gas

Subjects

• Energy development > Government policy > United States
• Infrastructure (Economics) > United States > Safety measures
• Power transmission > Government policy > United States
• Energy industries > Government policy > United States
• Energy policy > Government policy > United States
• Energy security > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-66)

Contents

Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Purpose -- Approach -- Organization of This Report -- 2. Petroleum and Refined-Oil Products: Key Issues -- Performance Metrics -- Models and Data -- Key Uncertainties -- Policy Options -- Scenario Analysis -- Resilience -- Key Findings -- 3. Electric Power: Key Issues -- Performance Metrics -- Model and Data -- Key Uncertainties -- Policy Options -- Scenario Analysis -- Resilience -- Key Findings -- 4. Natural Gas: Key Issues -- Performance Metrics -- Model and Data -- Key Uncertainties -- Scenario Analysis -- Key Findings -- 5. Implications for Energy Investments and Policy: Petroleum and Refined-Oil Products -- Electric Power -- Natural Gas -- APPENDIXES: A. Models Used to Generate Results -- B. Development of the RAND Low Consumption Case for Oil and Refined Products -- C. Model Output for Electricity for 2050 -- Bibliography.

Call Number

JBF 17-235

ISBN

• 0833095595
• 9780833095596

OCLC

960839307

Author

Crane, Keith, 1953- author.

Title

Scenario development for the 2015 Quadrennial Energy Review : assessing stresses, opportunities, and resilience in the transmission, storage, and distribution systems for oil and refined-oil products, electricity, and natural gas / Keith Crane, Debra Knopman, Nicholas Burger, Anu Narayanan, James D. Powers, Henry H. Willis.

Publisher

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Research report ; RR-1286-DOE

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1286-DOE.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-66)

Added Author

Knopman, Debra S., author.

Burger, Nicholas, author.

Narayanan, Anu, author.

Powers, James D., author.

Willis, Henry H., author.

Rand Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment (Organization), issuing body.

Research Call Number

JBF 17-235