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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Deployment of Deep Decarbonization Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25656.
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Statement of Task

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an expert committee of 4-6 members to plan and execute a workshop exploring the challenges and opportunities for deploying and scaling up technologies involved in deep decarbonization of the U.S. energy sector. Deep decarbonization in this context is reaching 80 percent or greater reduction in carbon emissions by mid-century. The workshop goal is to provide an understanding of how model assumptions and inputs for low emissions technologies represent real world conditions. Workshop participants will review several prominent published pathways for deep decarbonization and explore the technology development and deployment assumptions that underlie the modeled results. Workshop sessions will address specific classes of energy sector technologies, for example low carbon transportation, with the goal of understanding deployment and practical barriers faced in translating model assumptions to the real-world. The workshop will engage experts in modeling and development of decarbonization pathways with energy sector professionals with direct experience planning and managing energy technologies.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Deployment of Deep Decarbonization Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25656.
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While progress has been made in the development of decarbonization technologies, much work remains in scale-up and deployment. For decarbonization technologies to reach meaningful scale, real-world constraints, societal, economic, and political, must be considered.

To identify the primary challenges and opportunities to deploying decarbonization technologies at scale across major sectors of the U.S. economy, the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on July 22-23, 2019. In addition to technology-specific and sector-specific studies, the workshop considered the types of societal transformations required, as well as potential policy drivers for carbon dioxide emissions reductions. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.

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