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Overview

Adam Hawkes is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Energy, and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to several subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Economics and Econometrics, Mechanical Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics such as Integrated Energy Systems Optimization, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Environmental Impact and Sustainability.

Recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests. These include:

  • A multi-model analysis of long-term emissions and warming implications of current mitigation efforts, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • How can LNG-fuelled ships meet decarbonisation targets? An environmental and economic analysis, 2021, Energy
  • Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future, 2022, Nature Energy
  • A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Perspective of comprehensive and comprehensible multi-model energy and climate science in Europe, 2020, Energy

Adam Hawkes frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include Shivika Mittal, Ajay Gambhir, Sara Giarola, Neil Grant, and Dirk-Jan Van de Ven.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of venues, with a notable number of articles published in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Applied Energy
  • Energy
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation study

    O Schmidt;A Gambhir;IL Staffell;A Hawkes

  • Energy systems modeling for twenty-first century energy challenges

    Stefan Pfenninger;Adam Hawkes;James Keirstead

  • The future cost of electrical energy storage based on experience rates

    O. Schmidt;A. Hawkes;A. Gambhir;I. Staffell

  • Projecting the Future Levelized Cost of Electricity Storage Technologies

    Oliver Schmidt;Sylvain Melchior;Adam Hawkes;Iain Staffell

  • Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for heating: A review

    Paul E. Dodds;Iain Staffell;Adam D. Hawkes;Francis Li

  • How to decarbonise international shipping: Options for fuels, technologies and policies

    Paul Balcombe;James Brierley;Chester Lewis;Line Skatvedt

  • An assessment of CCS costs, barriers and potential

    Sara Budinis;Samuel Krevor;Niall Mac Dowell;Nigel Brandon

  • Levelized cost of CO2 mitigation from hydrogen production routes

    B. Parkinson;P. Balcombe;J. F. Speirs;A. D. Hawkes

  • An inter-model assessment of the role of direct air capture in deep mitigation pathways.

    Giulia Realmonte;Laurent Drouet;Ajay Gambhir;James Glynn

  • A review of domestic heat pumps

    Iain Staffell;Dan Brett;Nigel Brandon;Adam Hawkes

  • Cost-effective operating strategy for residential micro-combined heat and power

    AD Hawkes;MA Leach

  • Modelling high level system design and unit commitment for a microgrid

    A.D. Hawkes;M.A. Leach

  • Estimating marginal CO2 emissions rates for national electricity systems

    A.D. Hawkes

  • Methane emissions: choosing the right climate metric and time horizon.

    Paul Balcombe;Jamie F. Speirs;Nigel P. Brandon;Adam D. Hawkes

  • Societal Transformations in Models for Energy and Climate Policy: The Ambitious Next Step

    Evelina Trutnevyte;Léon Francis Hirt;Nico Bauer;Aleh Cherp;Aleh Cherp

  • Impacts of temporal precision in optimisation modelling of micro-combined heat and power

    Adam Hawkes;Matthew Leach

  • Fuel cells for micro-combined heat and power generation

    Adam Hawkes;Iain Staffell;Dan Brett;Nigel Brandon

  • Temporally-explicit and spatially-resolved global onshore wind energy potentials

    Jonathan Bosch;Iain Staffell;Adam D. Hawkes

  • The Natural Gas Supply Chain: The Importance of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Emissions

    Paul Balcombe;Kris Anderson;Jamie Speirs;Nigel P. Brandon

  • Temporally explicit and spatially resolved global offshore wind energy potentials

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  • Long-run marginal CO2 emissions factors in national electricity systems

    A.D. Hawkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel P. Brandon
Nigel P. Brandon Imperial College London
Iain Staffell
Iain Staffell Imperial College London
Dan J. L. Brett
Dan J. L. Brett University College London
Massimo Santarelli
Massimo Santarelli Polytechnic University of Turin
Andrea Lanzini
Andrea Lanzini Polytechnic University of Turin
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni Polytechnic University of Milan
David Infield
David Infield University of Strathclyde
Mark Howells
Mark Howells Loughborough University
Thomas J. Schmidt
Thomas J. Schmidt Paul Scherrer Institute
Glen P. Peters
Glen P. Peters Center for International Climate and Environmental Research

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