Archive of Topic: energy storage

Guangzhi Yin

Guangzhi is a PhD stu­dent in Ener­gy Sys­tems Analy­sis at Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty.  He has bach­e­lor’s degrees in Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing and in Man­age­ment from Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty.  He has been a vis­it­ing stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bath and at the Israel Insti­tute of Technology.

His work is focused on the role of car­bon pric­ing and renew­able ener­gy deploy­ment in China.

Guangzhi will be a vis­it­ing stu­dent at RAEL from Octo­ber 2019- July 2020.

 Cur­rent posi­tion:

Ph.D stu­dent in Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing, Tsinghua University.

 

 

Jiang, Kelly

As an under­grad­u­ate Kel­ly was invit­ed to work as a GSR to com­pile data on decen­tral­ized renew­able ener­gy (DRE) in part­ner­ship with Pow­er for All (P4All) as part of a larg­er effort to research and to build the case for uni­ver­sal elec­tric­i­ty access by 2025 through dis­trib­uted renew­able ener­gy.  In this project Kel­ly is work­ing with Dr. Rebekah Shirley and Pro­fes­sor Dan Kam­men of UC Berke­ley Ener­gy and Resources Group.

In the Spring of 2018 Kel­ly is also a Vis­it­ing Stu­dent and mini-grid research stu­dent at the State Key Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Trans­mis­sion Equip­ment and Sys­tem Secu­ri­ty and New Tech­nol­o­gy at Chongqing Uni­ver­si­ty where she is super­vised by Pro­fes­sor Miny­ou Chen of the School of Elec­tri­cal Engineering.

Innovation in Energy Storage

Ener­gy stor­age deploy­ment and inno­va­tion for the clean ener­gy transition

Noah Kit­tnera,b, Felix Lillb,c and Daniel M. Kam­men*a,b,d

a Ener­gy and Resources Group, UC Berke­ley, Berke­ley, CA, USA

b Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry, UC Berke­ley, Berke­ley, CA, USA

c Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Tech­nol­o­gy and Man­age­ment, TU Munich, Munich, Germany

d Gold­man School of Pub­lic Pol­i­cy, UC Berke­ley, Berke­ley, CA, USA

Power system balancing for deep decarbonization of the electricity sector

We explore the oper­a­tions, bal­anc­ing require­ments, and costs of the West­ern Elec­tric­i­ty Coor­di­nat­ing Coun­cil pow­er sys­tem under a strin­gent green­house gas emis­sion reduc­tion tar­get. We include sen­si­tiv­i­ties for tech­nol­o­gy costs and avail­abil­i­ty, fuel prices and emis­sions, and demand pro­file. Meet­ing an emis­sions tar­get of 85% below 1990 lev­els is fea­si­ble across a range of assump­tions, but the cost of achiev­ing the goal and the tech­nol­o­gy mix are uncer­tain. Deploy­ment of solar pho­to­voltaics is the main dri­ver of stor­age deploy­ment: the diur­nal peri­od­ic­i­ty of solar ener­gy avail­abil­i­ty results in oppor­tu­ni­ties for dai­ly arbi­trage that stor­age tech­nolo­gies with sev­er­al hours of dura­tion are well suit­ed to pro­vide. Wind out­put exhibits sea­son­al vari­a­tions and requires stor­age with a large ener­gy sub­com­po­nent to avoid cur­tail­ment. The com­bi­na­tion of low-cost solar tech­nol­o­gy and advanced bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy can pro­vide sub­stan­tial sav­ings through 2050, great­ly mit­i­gat­ing the cost of cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion. Pol­i­cy goals for stor­age deploy­ment should be based on the func­tion stor­age will play on the grid and there­fore incor­po­rate both the pow­er rat­ing and dura­tion of the stor­age sys­tem. These goals should be set as part of over­all port­fo­lio devel­op­ment, as sys­tem flex­i­bil­i­ty needs will vary with the grid mix.

Kittner, Noah

Noah Kit­tner is now a Pro­fes­sor in both City and Region­al Plan­ning, and Glob­al Pub­lic Health at the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na, Chapel Hill.

Noah Kit­tner was a PhD stu­dent in the Ener­gy and Resources Group at UC Berke­ley and researcher in the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry. After grad­u­at­ing with a BS in Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence from UNC-Chapel Hill (high­est hon­ors), Noah was a Ful­bright Fel­low at the Joint Grad­u­ate School for Ener­gy and Envi­ron­ment in Bangkok, Thai­land research­ing tech­ni­cal and pol­i­cy aspects of solar elec­tric­i­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty assess­ment. Recent­ly, he co-authored a Thai Solar PV Roadmap with col­leagues at Chu­la­longko­rn University.

He has worked on renew­able ener­gy issues in a vari­ety of con­texts, includ­ing mea­sur­ing land use change and bio­mass fuel uses in west­ern Ugan­da, installing solar pan­els in Mex­i­co, and elec­tric­i­ty grid mod­el­ing in Koso­vo. He is sup­port­ed through the Berke­ley Cen­ter for Green Chem­istry as a SAGE-IGERT fel­low, Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion as a Grad­u­ate Research Fel­low, USAID, and has won an award from the Nation­al Go Solar Foun­da­tion for his work on solar photovoltaics.

Main Menu
RAEL Info

Energy & Resources Group
310 Barrows Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3050
Phone: (510) 642-1640
Fax: (510) 642-1085
Email: ergdeskb@berkeley.edu


Projects

  • Open the Main Menu
  • People at RAEL

  • Open the Main Menu