Peer-reviewed publications
In Review
Carlino, Wongel, Duan, Virgüez, Davis, Edwards, Caldeira, “Predictive skill of experience curves is limited by variation in learning rates,” in review.
Wu, Holloway, Meier, Edwards, “Characterizing multi-pollutant emission impacts of sulfur reduction strategies from coal power plants,” in review.
Skerker*, Verma*, Edwards, Rachunok, Fletcher, "Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior," in review.
Bindl, Edwards, Cui, “Risks of relying on uncertain carbon dioxide removal technologies in climate policy,” in review.
Edwards, Garibay-Rodriguez, Erickson, Shayan, Tan, Shen, Qiu, Liu, “Assessing inequities in heat pump adoption across the U.S.,” in review. (link)
Edwards, Thomas, Nemet, Rathod, Greene, Surana, Kennedy, Fuhman, McJeon, “Modeling direct air carbon capture and storage in a 1.5°C climate future using historical analogues,” in press.
Kennedy, Surana, Borrero, Fedorchak, Thomas, Lucas, Edwards, Doblinger, Hultman, McJeon, Williams, “The Relationship between Public Funding, Corporate Investment, and Climate-Tech Start-up Outcomes,” in review.
Shen, Edwards, Qiu, Liu, “The Economic Consequences of Local Gas Leaks: Evidence from Massachusetts Housing Market,” in review. (link)
2024
Giang, Edwards, Fletcher, Gardner-Frolick, Gryba, Mathias, Vernier-Cambron, Anderies, Berglund, Carley, Erickson, Grubert, Hadjimichael, Hill, Mayfield, Nock, Pikok, Saari, Samudio Lezcano, Siddiqi, Skerker, Tessum, “Equity and modeling in sustainability science: examples and opportunities throughout the modeling process,” PNAS, 2024. (link)
2023
Rathod, Edwards, Roy, Warnecke, Rafaj, Kiesewetter, Klimont, “Air quality and health effects of a transition to ammonia-fueled shipping in Singapore,” Environmental Research: Health, 2023. (link)
Surana*, Edwards*, Kennedy, Borrero, Clarke, Fedorchak, Hultman, McJeon, Thomas, Williams, “The role of corporate investment in start-ups for climate-tech innovation,” Joule, 2023. (link, note)
2022
Edwards, Cui, Bindl, Hultman, Mathur, McJeon, Iyer, Song, and Zhao. “Quantifying the regional stranded asset risks from new coal plants under 1.5°C,” Environmental Research Letters, 2022. (link)
Edwards, Holloway, Pierce, Blank, Broddle, Choi, Duncan, Esparza, Falchetta, Fritz, Gibbs, Hundt, Lark, Leibrand, Liu, Madsen, Maslak, Pandey, Seto, Stackhouse Jr., “Satellite Data Applications for Sustainable Energy Transitions,” Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022. (link)
Edwards and Trancik. “Consequences of equivalency metric design for energy transitions and climate change,” Climatic Change, 2022. (link, PDF)
2021
Edwards, Giang, Macey, Magavi, Nicholas, Ackley, and Schulman, “Repair failures call for new policies to tackle leaky natural gas distribution systems,” Environmental Science & Technology, 2021. (link, note)
Cui, Hultman, Cui, McJeon, Yu, Edwards, Sen, Song, Bowman, Clarke, Kang, Lou, Yang, Zhang, Zhu, “A plant-by-plant strategy for high-ambition coal phaseout in China,” Nature Communications, 2021. (link)
2020
Hultman, Clarke, Frisch, Kennedy, McJeon, Cyrs, Hansel, Bodnar, Manion, Edwards, Cui, Bowman, Lund, Westphal, Clapper, Jaeger, Sen, Lou, Saha, Jaglom, Calhoun, Igusky, deWesse, Hammoud, Altimirano, Dennis, Henderson, Zwicker, O’Neill, “Fusing subnational with national climate action is central to decarbonization: the case of the United States,” Nature Communications, 2020. (link, note)
Klemun*, Edwards*, and Trancik, “Research priorities for supporting subnational climate policies, WIRES Climate Change, 2020. (link)
Pre-2020
Cui, Hultman, Edwards, He, Sen, Surana, McJeon, Iyer, Patel, Yu, Nace, Shearer, “Quantifying operational lifetimes for coal power plants under the Paris goals,” Nature Communications, 2019. (link)
Edwards*, Klemun*, Kim, Wallington, Tamor, and Trancik, “Vehicle emissions of short- and long-lived climate forcers: Trends and tradeoffs,” Faraday Discussions, 2017. (link)
Edwards, McNerney, and Trancik, “Testing emissions equivalency metrics against climate policy goals,” Environmental Science and Policy, 2016. (link)
Roy, Edwards, and Trancik, “Methane mitigation timelines to inform energy technology evaluation,” Environmental Research Letters, 2015. (link)
Edwards and Trancik, “Climate impacts of energy technologies depend on emissions timing,” Nature Climate Change, 2014. (link)
* Authors contributed equally.
Reports, briefs, and popular press
Cui, Edwards, et al., “Impact of President Xi’s foreign coal builds announcement on global climate goals,” 2021. (link)
Blumsack, Hines, Moore, Trancik, Azevedo, Araujo, Bent, Brown, Cather, Edwards, et al., “The Energy Transition in New Mexico: Insights from a Santa Fe Institute Workshop,” 2020. (link)
Cui, Song, Hultman, Cui, Edwards, and McJeon. Implications of Continued Coal Builds in the 14th Five-Year Plan of China. Technical Report, 2020. (link)
Cui, Hultman, McJeon, Yu, Cui, Edwards, Sen, Song, Jiang. A plant-by-plant assessment of accelerated coal power phase-out in China under the Paris climate goals. Technical Report, 2019. (link)
Cui, Edwards, Bowman, and Hultman. Coal’s emission shadow: Meeting climate goals requires cancelling all proposed coal power plants and accelerating the retirement of existing fleets, Policy Brief, 2019. (link)
Hultman, Frisch, Clarke, Kennedy, Bodnar, Hansel, Cyrs, Manion, Edwards, et al. Accelerating America’s Pledge: Going All-In to Build a Prosperous, Sustainable Economy for the United States, Technical Report, 2019. (link)
Edwards, Surana, Thomas, and Williams. “Accelerating climate-mitigating technology development and deployment,” Technical Report, 2019. (link)
Trancik, Klemun, and Edwards. “People are worried Trump will stop climate progress. The numbers say he can’t.” Washington Post, November 2016. (link)
Trancik, Brown, Jean, Kavlak, Klemun, Edwards, McNerney, Miotti, Mueller, and Needell, Technology improvement and emissions reductions as mutually reinforcing efforts: Observations from the global development of solar and wind energy, Technical Report, 2015. (link)