Jaise Kuriakose

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title = {Facilitating domestic demand response in Britain’s electricity system},

author = {Timothy Capper and Jaise Kuriakose and Maria Sharmina},

doi = {10.1016/j.jup.2024.101768},

issn = {0957-1787},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-08-01},

journal = {Utilities Policy},

volume = {89},

number = {101768},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Load flexibility can supplant some of the supply-side flexibility lost as intermittent renewables are installed and reduce the network investment needed to meet growing electricity demand. This diffusion of innovation study uses interviews to examine the factors that might lead to adopting or rejecting domestic demand response. The results show that policymakers can make the most of demand flexibility by aligning the technical and bidding requirements of different flexibility markets, regulating flexibility markets and aggregators to protect households participating in such markets, and making the energy price reflective of carbon content, location, and time of use.},

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title = {Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through energy access: Lessons from the Global South},

author = {Angela Mae Minas and Samira García-Freites and Christopher Walsh and Velma Mukoro and Jhud Mikhail Aberilla and Amanda April and Jaise Kuriakose and Carlos Gaete-Morales and Alejandro Gallego Schmid and Sarah Mander},

doi = {10.1016/j.rser.2024.114457},

issn = {1364-0321},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-07-01},

journal = {Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews},

volume = {199},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Under the banner of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), governments, industry, and civil society organisations have supported many energy access projects since 2015. Notably, funding and investments allotted to renewable energy are regarded not only to provide ‘energy for all’ but also support the delivery of other SDGs related to climate change, food security, health, and poverty reduction, among others. With less than 10 years left to meet the SDG 7 targets, it is timely to take stock and examine how the provision of access to energy is driving development initiatives, impacting local communities, and influencing governance processes. This paper offers a critical review and analysis of the impact of access to energy projects based on empirical work from eight country case studies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It interrogates how these projects contribute towards achieving SDG 7 and other sustainable development goals, highlights challenges, and then draws lessons for research, policy, and development practice. To advance SDGs, it recommends action in four areas: addressing rural-urban disparities, ensuring that energy is linked to sustainable outcomes, balancing top-down and bottom-up agendas, and appraising implications of techno-economic factors.},

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@article{09dd73bebde244d289b9202f38aedad0,

title = {Implications of large hydro dams for decarbonising Ghana’s energy consistent with Paris climate objectives},

author = {Jaise Kuriakose and Kevin Anderson and Deborah Darkod and Emmanuel Obuobie and Alice Larkin and Salifu Addo},

doi = {10.1016/j.esd.2022.10.011},

issn = {0973-0826},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-11-03},

journal = {Energy for Sustainable Development},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Hydropower is a renewable source of electricity generation that is a common feature of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), especially in developing countries. However, far from benign, research shows that significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emanate from shallow reservoirs when they are sited in the tropics. Ghana provides a case study for exploring the implications of hydro reservoir emissions within a future energy system consistent with the Paris climate objectives. Being a fast-developing country, Ghana needs to generate significant amounts of low carbon electricity to meet growing demand over the coming 30 years. Analysis of existing Ghanaian dams (Akosombo, Kpong and Bui) and the forthcoming Pwalugu dam suggests that their average emissions intensities (gCO2/kWh) are similar to those of coal-fired power stations during the first 30 years of their operating lifetime. The case study demonstrates that cumulative (post-2020) carbon dioxide emissions from the planned and identified hydro resources will consume 40% of Ghana’s Paris-compliant carbon budget, yet provide just under 1% of its future energy demand (under Paris-compliant scenarios). The analysis suggests that new hydropower in the tropics can significantly reduce the emission space available for other sectors such as transport and industry when faced with a highly restricted emissions budget. In conclusion, for Ghana specifically, rather than construct more dams, energy efficiency and diversifying renewable energy supply options, including floating solar power, would deliver an energy transition for Ghana that is much more closely aligned with the Paris goals.},

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title = {What does the Paris Climate Change Agreement mean for local policy? Downscaling the remaining global carbon budget to sub-national areas.},

author = {Jaise Kuriakose and Christopher Jones and Kevin Anderson and Carly McLachlan and John Broderick},

doi = {10.1016/j.rset.2022.100030},

issn = {2667-095X},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-08-01},

journal = {Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Following high profile United Nations climate summits in Glasgow and Paris, sub-national regions and cities are increasingly seeking to set climate targets and policies in line with the Paris Agreement’s goals. Downscaled carbon budgets are a useful framework for setting local mitigation targets related to a specific global temperature change. However, doing so presents a range of methodological issues, including: choices on the appropriate goals to set, the scope of emissions and sectors, the allocation approaches to apply, whether offset credits and/or carbon dioxide removals are acceptable and, if so, to what extent. This paper details a novel and transparent methodology for downscaling a Paris-aligned global carbon budget to sub-national areas, focusing on emissions from energy (power, heat, cooling, surface transport and industry). The effects of different global carbon budgets, various net zero targets and allocation methods on the size of sub-national budgets and associated mitigation rates are explored. The resulting budgets and annual emission reduction rates vary significantly, reflecting the implications of both high-level methodological choices and local factors, including economic activity, energy-system structure and population. Recent historical emissions (grandfathering) are found to be more appropriate for allocating national carbon budgets to sub-national areas than capability or egalitarian allocations. In the UK case study presented, adopting a grandfathering approach, the annual mitigation rates range from 7% to 16% between different sub-national areas. The analysis concludes that establishing agreed sub-national allocation approaches and boundaries are key to developing coherent national strategies consistent with the Paris Agreement’s temperature and equity commitments.},

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@article{e997e92a44ce43d9bfaa60838d3a7264b,

title = {Impact of Energy Imbalance on Financial Rewards in Peer-to-Peer Electricity Markets},

author = {Timothy Capper and Jaise Kuriakose and Maria Sharmina},

doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3176614},

issn = {2169-3536},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-05-22},

journal = {IEEE Access},

volume = {10},

pages = {55235–55254},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {Peer-to-peer electricity markets allow small producers and consumers of energy to trade directly. Energy imbalances, the difference between predicted and actual supply or demand for energy, may be higher in peer-to-peer markets than in traditional markets. High energy imbalances could increase the total cost of the electricity system, both inside and outside the peer-to-peer market, because the system operator must take expensive corrective actions at short notice. This paper examines the effect of imbalance charges on peer-to-peer electricity markets. A new symmetric imbalance charge mechanism is proposed which penalises market participants irrespective of the direction of their energy imbalance. The symmetric imbalance charge mechanism provides a financial incentive for peer-to-peer market participants to reduce their energy imbalances. For illustrative purposes, this paper uses a simulation to show that the current imbalance charge mechanism in Great Britain does not provide a financial incentive for peer-to-peer market participants to reduce their energy imbalances. The imbalance charge is close to zero under the current British imbalance charge mechanism when averaged over hundreds of settlement periods or more. When subject to the symmetric imbalance charge mechanism, the simulation shows that peer-to-peer market participants are given a strong financial incentive to reduce their energy imbalances. Finally, this paper discussed how the symmetric imbalance charge mechanism could be implemented only within the bounds of a peer-to-peer market, or within the whole electricity system.},

note = {Funding Information: This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Power Networks Centre for Doctoral Training under Grant EP/L016141/1. Publisher Copyright: © 2013 IEEE.},

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title = {Impact of Energy Imbalance on Financial Rewards in Peer-to-Peer Electricity Markets},

author = {Timothy Capper and Jaise Kuriakose and Maria Sharmina},

doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3176614},

issn = {2169-3536},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-05-22},

journal = {IEEE Access},

volume = {10},

pages = {55235–55254},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {Peer-to-peer electricity markets allow small producers and consumers of energy to trade directly. Energy imbalances, the difference between predicted and actual supply or demand for energy, may be higher in peer-to-peer markets than in traditional markets. High energy imbalances could increase the total cost of the electricity system, both inside and outside the peer-to-peer market, because the system operator must take expensive corrective actions at short notice. This paper examines the effect of imbalance charges on peer-to-peer electricity markets. A new symmetric imbalance charge mechanism is proposed which penalises market participants irrespective of the direction of their energy imbalance. The symmetric imbalance charge mechanism provides a financial incentive for peer-to-peer market participants to reduce their energy imbalances. For illustrative purposes, this paper uses a simulation to show that the current imbalance charge mechanism in Great Britain does not provide a financial incentive for peer-to-peer market participants to reduce their energy imbalances. The imbalance charge is close to zero under the current British imbalance charge mechanism when averaged over hundreds of settlement periods or more. When subject to the symmetric imbalance charge mechanism, the simulation shows that peer-to-peer market participants are given a strong financial incentive to reduce their energy imbalances. Finally, this paper discussed how the symmetric imbalance charge mechanism could be implemented only within the bounds of a peer-to-peer market, or within the whole electricity system.},

note = {Funding Information: This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Power Networks Centre for Doctoral Training under Grant EP/L016141/1. Publisher Copyright: © 2013 IEEE.},

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title = {What if negative emission technologies fail at scale? Implications of the Paris Agreement for big emitting nations},

author = {Alice Larkin and Jaise Kuriakose and Maria Sharmina and Kevin Anderson},

doi = {10.1080/14693062.2017.1346498},

issn = {1469-3062},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-08-03},

journal = {Climate Policy},

volume = {18},

number = {6},

pages = {690–714},

publisher = {Earthscan},

abstract = {A cumulative emissions approach is increasingly used to inform mitigation policy. However, there are different interpretations of what ‘2°C’ implies. Here it is argued that cost-optimization models, commonly used to inform policy, typically underplay the urgency of 2°C mitigation. The alignment within many scenarios of optimistic assumptions on negative emissions technologies (NETs), with implausibly early peak emission dates and incremental short-term mitigation, delivers outcomes commensurate with 2°C commitments. In contrast, considering equity and socio-technical barriers to change, suggests a more challenging short-term agenda. To understand these different interpretations, short-term CO2 trends of the largest CO2 emitters, are assessed in relation to a constrained CO2 budget, coupled with a ‘what if’ assumption that negative emissions technologies fail at scale. The outcomes raise profound questions around high-level framings of mitigation policy. The article concludes that applying even weak equity criteria, challenges the feasibility of maintaining a 50% chance of avoiding 2°C without urgent mitigation efforts in the short-term. This highlights a need for greater engagement with: (1) the equity dimension of the Paris Agreement, (2) the sensitivity of constrained carbon budgets to short-term trends and (3) the climate risks for society posed by an almost ubiquitous inclusion of NETs within 2°C scenarios.},

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title = {What if negative emission technologies fail at scale? Implications of the Paris Agreement for big emitting nations},

author = {Alice Larkin and Jaise Kuriakose and Kevin Anderson and Maria Sharmina},

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title = {The role of spatial and technology diversity in reducing variability of electricity supply: A case study using wind and wave energy in the UK’s low carbon electricity grid},

author = {Jaise Kuriakose and Timothy Stallard and Adam Leonard-Williams and Frances Wood},

issn = {0960-1481},

year  = {2017},

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title = {The role of spatial and technology diversity in reducing variability of electricity supply: A case study using wind and wave energy in the UK’s low carbon electricity grid},

author = {Jaise Kuriakose and Timothy Stallard and Adam Leonard-Williams and Frances Wood},

issn = {0960-1481},

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title = {The impact of climate change on UK energy demand},

author = {Frances Ruth Wood and Daniel Calverley and Steven Glynn and Sarah Mander and Conor Walsh and Jaise Kuriakose and Frances Hill and Mirjam Roeder},

doi = {10.1680/jinam.14.00039},

issn = {2053-0242},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-07-20},

journal = {Infrastructure Asset Management},

volume = {2},

number = {3},

pages = {107–119},

publisher = {ICE Publishing},

abstract = {The impacts of climate change on the energy system are diverse; this article focuses on the potential effects on UK energy demand and the ramifications for national infrastructure building on the findings of the UK’s 2012 Climate Change Risk Assessment. It reviews the available literature, where it exists, on the relationships among current energy demand, weather and climate change, and the implications for these relationships due to mitigation plans and potential adaptation responses. The review highlights the mechanisms by which future climate change, in particular changes in mean and extreme temperature, could affect the annual amount of UK energy demand and the seasonal, daily and spatial variation of the impacts. Published literature quantifying the effects of climate change on UK energy demand is limited; thus, where evidence is not available, information on the current relationship between weather and demand is combined with expert judgement to highlight potential demand responses to a changing climate without quantification. The impacts identified could have significant implications for the long-term planning of energy infrastructure and system operation and building design, depending on their magnitude, highlighting the need for further research in this area.},

note = {This work was funded by the LWEC programme of the UK Research Councils and the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester},

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@article{8c714074f8ce4892ba927031356b1822,

title = {The impact of climate change on UK energy demand},

author = {Frances Ruth Wood and Daniel Calverley and Steven Glynn and Sarah Mander and Conor Walsh and Jaise Kuriakose and Frances Hill and Mirjam Roeder},

doi = {10.1680/jinam.14.00039},

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year  = {2015},

date = {2015-07-20},

journal = {Infrastructure Asset Management},

volume = {2},

number = {3},

pages = {107–119},

publisher = {ICE Publishing},

abstract = {The impacts of climate change on the energy system are diverse; this article focuses on the potential effects on UK energy demand and the ramifications for national infrastructure building on the findings of the UK’s 2012 Climate Change Risk Assessment. It reviews the available literature, where it exists, on the relationships among current energy demand, weather and climate change, and the implications for these relationships due to mitigation plans and potential adaptation responses. The review highlights the mechanisms by which future climate change, in particular changes in mean and extreme temperature, could affect the annual amount of UK energy demand and the seasonal, daily and spatial variation of the impacts. Published literature quantifying the effects of climate change on UK energy demand is limited; thus, where evidence is not available, information on the current relationship between weather and demand is combined with expert judgement to highlight potential demand responses to a changing climate without quantification. The impacts identified could have significant implications for the long-term planning of energy infrastructure and system operation and building design, depending on their magnitude, highlighting the need for further research in this area.},

note = {This work was funded by the LWEC programme of the UK Research Councils and the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester},

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@article{ef0d1fdb98a2483ebf9d64a5bd26251fb,

title = {Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through energy access: Lessons from the Global South},

author = {Angela Mae Minas and Samira García-Freites and Christopher Walsh and Velma Mukoro and Jhud Mikhail Aberilla and Amanda April and Jaise Kuriakose and Carlos Gaete-Morales and Alejandro Gallego Schmid and Sarah Mander},

doi = {10.1016/j.rser.2024.114457},

issn = {1364-0321},

journal = {Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews},

volume = {199},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Under the banner of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), governments, industry, and civil society organisations have supported many energy access projects since 2015. Notably, funding and investments allotted to renewable energy are regarded not only to provide ‘energy for all’ but also support the delivery of other SDGs related to climate change, food security, health, and poverty reduction, among others. With less than 10 years left to meet the SDG 7 targets, it is timely to take stock and examine how the provision of access to energy is driving development initiatives, impacting local communities, and influencing governance processes. This paper offers a critical review and analysis of the impact of access to energy projects based on empirical work from eight country case studies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It interrogates how these projects contribute towards achieving SDG 7 and other sustainable development goals, highlights challenges, and then draws lessons for research, policy, and development practice. To advance SDGs, it recommends action in four areas: addressing rural-urban disparities, ensuring that energy is linked to sustainable outcomes, balancing top-down and bottom-up agendas, and appraising implications of techno-economic factors.},

note = {Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors},

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@article{e12cb7d7475b4659b8270285cf5735aeb,

title = {What if negative emission technologies fail at scale? Implications of the Paris Agreement for big emitting nations},

author = {Alice Larkin and Jaise Kuriakose and Maria Sharmina and Kevin Anderson},

doi = {10.1080/14693062.2017.1346498},

issn = {1469-3062},

journal = {Climate Policy},

volume = {18},

number = {6},

pages = {690–714},

publisher = {Earthscan},

abstract = {A cumulative emissions approach is increasingly used to inform mitigation policy. However, there are different interpretations of what ‘2°C’ implies. Here it is argued that cost-optimization models, commonly used to inform policy, typically underplay the urgency of 2°C mitigation. The alignment within many scenarios of optimistic assumptions on negative emissions technologies (NETs), with implausibly early peak emission dates and incremental short-term mitigation, delivers outcomes commensurate with 2°C commitments. In contrast, considering equity and socio-technical barriers to change, suggests a more challenging short-term agenda. To understand these different interpretations, short-term CO2 trends of the largest CO2 emitters, are assessed in relation to a constrained CO2 budget, coupled with a ‘what if’ assumption that negative emissions technologies fail at scale. The outcomes raise profound questions around high-level framings of mitigation policy. The article concludes that applying even weak equity criteria, challenges the feasibility of maintaining a 50% chance of avoiding 2°C without urgent mitigation efforts in the short-term. This highlights a need for greater engagement with: (1) the equity dimension of the Paris Agreement, (2) the sensitivity of constrained carbon budgets to short-term trends and (3) the climate risks for society posed by an almost ubiquitous inclusion of NETs within 2°C scenarios.},

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@article{a671d80d2f284e7a9213d8759446fc0ab,

title = {What does the Paris Climate Change Agreement mean for local policy? Downscaling the remaining global carbon budget to sub-national areas.},

author = {Jaise Kuriakose and Christopher Jones and Kevin Anderson and Carly McLachlan and John Broderick},

doi = {10.1016/j.rset.2022.100030},

issn = {2667-095X},

journal = {Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Following high profile United Nations climate summits in Glasgow and Paris, sub-national regions and cities are increasingly seeking to set climate targets and policies in line with the Paris Agreement’s goals. Downscaled carbon budgets are a useful framework for setting local mitigation targets related to a specific global temperature change. However, doing so presents a range of methodological issues, including: choices on the appropriate goals to set, the scope of emissions and sectors, the allocation approaches to apply, whether offset credits and/or carbon dioxide removals are acceptable and, if so, to what extent. This paper details a novel and transparent methodology for downscaling a Paris-aligned global carbon budget to sub-national areas, focusing on emissions from energy (power, heat, cooling, surface transport and industry). The effects of different global carbon budgets, various net zero targets and allocation methods on the size of sub-national budgets and associated mitigation rates are explored. The resulting budgets and annual emission reduction rates vary significantly, reflecting the implications of both high-level methodological choices and local factors, including economic activity, energy-system structure and population. Recent historical emissions (grandfathering) are found to be more appropriate for allocating national carbon budgets to sub-national areas than capability or egalitarian allocations. In the UK case study presented, adopting a grandfathering approach, the annual mitigation rates range from 7% to 16% between different sub-national areas. The analysis concludes that establishing agreed sub-national allocation approaches and boundaries are key to developing coherent national strategies consistent with the Paris Agreement’s temperature and equity commitments.},

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title = {Implications of large hydro dams for decarbonising Ghana’s energy consistent with Paris climate objectives},

author = {Jaise Kuriakose and Kevin Anderson and Deborah Darkod and Emmanuel Obuobie and Alice Larkin and Salifu Addo},

doi = {10.1016/j.esd.2022.10.011},

issn = {0973-0826},

journal = {Energy for Sustainable Development},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Hydropower is a renewable source of electricity generation that is a common feature of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), especially in developing countries. However, far from benign, research shows that significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emanate from shallow reservoirs when they are sited in the tropics. Ghana provides a case study for exploring the implications of hydro reservoir emissions within a future energy system consistent with the Paris climate objectives. Being a fast-developing country, Ghana needs to generate significant amounts of low carbon electricity to meet growing demand over the coming 30 years. Analysis of existing Ghanaian dams (Akosombo, Kpong and Bui) and the forthcoming Pwalugu dam suggests that their average emissions intensities (gCO2/kWh) are similar to those of coal-fired power stations during the first 30 years of their operating lifetime. The case study demonstrates that cumulative (post-2020) carbon dioxide emissions from the planned and identified hydro resources will consume 40% of Ghana’s Paris-compliant carbon budget, yet provide just under 1% of its future energy demand (under Paris-compliant scenarios). The analysis suggests that new hydropower in the tropics can significantly reduce the emission space available for other sectors such as transport and industry when faced with a highly restricted emissions budget. In conclusion, for Ghana specifically, rather than construct more dams, energy efficiency and diversifying renewable energy supply options, including floating solar power, would deliver an energy transition for Ghana that is much more closely aligned with the Paris goals.},

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