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Tracking emissions in the US electricity system

View ORCID ProfileJacques A. de Chalendar, View ORCID ProfileJohn Taggart, and View ORCID ProfileSally M. Benson
  1. aEnergy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2205;
  2. bManagement Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

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PNAS December 17, 2019 116 (51) 25497-25502; first published December 2, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912950116
Jacques A. de Chalendar
aEnergy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2205;
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  1. Edited by Daniel M. Kammen, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and accepted by Editorial Board Member B. L. Turner II October 30, 2019 (received for review July 29, 2019)

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vol. 116 no. 51 25497-25502
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912950116
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31792173

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National Academy of Sciences
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue December 17, 2019.
  • Published first December 2, 2019.

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  1. Jacques A. de Chalendara,1,
  2. John Taggartb, and
  3. Sally M. Bensona
  1. aEnergy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2205;
  2. bManagement Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
  1. Edited by Daniel M. Kammen, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and accepted by Editorial Board Member B. L. Turner II October 30, 2019 (received for review July 29, 2019)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: jdechalendar{at}stanford.edu.
  • Author contributions: J.A.d.C., J.T., and S.M.B. designed research; J.A.d.C. performed research; J.A.d.C. analyzed data; and J.A.d.C., J.T., and S.M.B. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no competing interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. D.M.K. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.

  • Data deposition: The code and data have been deposited on GitHub and are available at https://github.com/jdechalendar/tracking_emissions.

  • This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1912950116/-/DCSupplemental.

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