Planning Strategies for Sustainable Electricity Systems Amidst Uncertainty: Case Study of the Yukon, Canada
Chris Fitzgibbon, I. David Elder, Heather L. MacLean, I. Daniel Posen · 2026
Read Planning Strategies for Sustainable Electricity Systems Amidst Uncertainty: Case Study of the Yukon, Canada by Chris Fitzgibbon, I. David Elder, Heather L. MacLean, I. Daniel Posen (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13262050.txt.
Description
Chris Fitzgibbon and co-authors explored in 2026 how the Yukon can plan electricity growth under deep uncertainty while honoring social and environmental aims. Utilities must keep power cheap and reliable as pressure mounts to cut emissions. Their approach ranks planning strategies by sustainability rules, then stress-tests each across many possible futures with an energy model.
A myopic twist drives the simulation: choices lock in based on forecasts, before the true future reveals itself. Flexible rules, such as barring new diesel while allowing other thermal plants, improved social and environmental scores at modest cost risk. Very strict rules, avoiding any project with possible harms, risked steep costs. Worse, they could backfire by forcing reliance on emergency diesel generators. The authors favor adaptable strategies for remote grids like the Yukon's.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chris Fitzgibbon, I. David Elder, Heather L. MacLean, I. Daniel Posen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |