GODEEEP Webinar Series | Deep Dive Four
GridResilience@PNNL presents the Grid Operations Decarbonization, Environmental and Energy Equity Platform (GODEEEP) series featuring panel discussions hosted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) leaders in their fields.
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Deep Dive Four
GridResilience@PNNL Presents the GODEEEP Webinar Series: Decarbonization Impacts on Disadvantaged Communities
Monday, August 7, 2023, 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. ET)
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Ambitious climate policy requires major energy sector transitions, affecting producers, suppliers, and consumers. Policymakers must consider how to achieve clean energy goals not only from the production side, but also in a way that maintains safe, affordable, and reliable electricity for all consumers. In Deep Dive 4 of the GODEEEP webinar series, we share our comprehensive approach to understanding decarbonization impacts on overall human well-being, while focusing on how those impacts are distributed across various population groups. Specifically, we explore the impacts on residential energy security and economic security at various scales. In this seminar, we will start with the development of state-level, post-tax income distribution projections and census block-level projections of population and income, which are necessary for modeling equity impacts on different population groups across various spatial scales. We will then present our modeling efforts to capture the impacts on decarbonization on residential energy security metrics, looking at impacts across different economic groups at the state level. Subsequently, we'll present the impacts on decarbonization on jobs and income at the U.S. census block level, with our initial analysis focused on the state of Washington. Finally, we will demonstrate the Environmental Justice Visualization Impacts and Analysis tool, which allows stakeholders to explore impacts across these multiple metrics and scales.
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For more information about the webinars in this series, visit the GODEEEP webinar event page.
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