Lin, Hanyang

Hanyang Lin is a PhD stu­dent at Tsinghua-Berke­ley Shen­zhen Insti­tute (TBSI), Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty and a vis­it­ing schol­ar at RAEL, UC Berke­ley. His research focus on the elec­tric­i­ty mar­kets and pow­er flow mod­els in the pow­er sys­tem oper­a­tion. His work builds a lin­eariza­tion method of pow­er flow mod­els con­sid­er­ing noze­ro line shunts, and based on the pro­posed pow­er flow mod­els, he pro­pos­es an opti­mal oper­a­tion strat­e­gy for dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem oper­a­tors (DSO), com­pris­ing inter­nal pro­sumers who engage in P2P trans­ac­tions, includ­ing the the­o­ret­i­cal analy­sis to exam­ine the influ­ence of dif­fer­ent P2P trad­ing ratios on the DSO’s opti­mal oper­a­tion strat­e­gy. He is a mem­ber of IEEE Pow­er and Ener­gy Soci­ety and INFORMS. Pri­or to join­ing TBSI, Hanyang grad­u­at­ed from Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don as a mas­ter student.

Zhao, Yayun

Yayun Zhao is a vis­it­ing schol­ar from Huazhong Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (HUST) in Chi­na, with broad inter­ests in ener­gy tran­si­tion poli­cies and tech­nolo­gies. Her research expe­ri­ence includes pow­er sys­tem mod­el­ing, com­par­a­tive analy­sis of U.S. and Chi­na ener­gy poli­cies, and the sec­ond-use of retired bat­ter­ies. She is pas­sion­ate about explor­ing how pol­i­cy and tech­ni­cal inno­va­tions can dri­ve sus­tain­able ener­gy solu­tions and improve the inte­gra­tion of renew­able ener­gy into pow­er grids.

Wang, Yuqi

Yuqi is a PhD stu­dent from Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty with a focus on renew­able ener­gy and pow­er sys­tem plan­ning, espe­cial­ly the solu­tion to the impos­si­ble tri­an­gle of ener­gy. He has been try­ing to extend the plan­ning objec­tive of renew­able ener­gy from mere­ly eco­nom­ic con­cern to low-car­bon, secure and eco­nom­ic objec­tives. Now, he also works on the inter­ac­tion between dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work and elec­tric vehi­cles. In RAEL, he hopes to con­tribute to the con­sump­tion-based CO₂ pol­i­cy analy­sis. As an under­grad­u­ate stu­dent, he also received fund­ing to vis­it Czech Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty in Prague for one semes­ter in 2019.

Gbemisola “Gbemi” Akinsipe

My inter­ests range from the inte­gra­tion of renew­ables into exist­ing grids,the pos­si­bil­i­ty of indi­genes (espe­cial­ly women) in rur­al com­mu­ni­ties pro­duc­ing their own pow­er or at least under­stand­ing its work­ings and the inter­ac­tion between sci­ence and pol­i­cy mak­ing in devel­op­ing coun­tries. I would love to study in the Renew­able & Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (RAEL) or the Ener­gy Mod­el­ing, Analy­sis and Con­trol Group (EMAC)

Jess Carney

Jess Car­ney is inter­est­ed in under­stand­ing how sus­tain­able ener­gy inte­gra­tion impacts pow­er grids and elec­tric­i­ty mar­kets. She received her under­grad­u­ate degree at Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty in 2018, where she majored in Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and minored in Applied Math­e­mat­ics and Sta­tis­tics. She has held intern­ships at the Inde­pen­dent Sys­tem Oper­a­tor or New Eng­land (ISO-NE), study­ing envi­ron­men­tal pol­i­cy and its effect on car­bon emis­sions and ener­gy prices, and at the Ver­mont Elec­tric Pow­er Com­pa­ny (VELCO), ana­lyz­ing the impact of high renew­able pen­e­tra­tion on sys­tem sta­bil­i­ty and inte­grat­ing state renew­able goals into trans­mis­sion plan­ning procedures.

She has wide-rang­ing inter­ests that include renew­able ener­gy inte­gra­tion, grid sta­bil­i­ty, ener­gy access, and ener­gy lit­er­a­cy and education.

Gordon Bauer

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.

Laos Energy Modeling and Policy Analysis (LEMPA) Project

Meet the Laos Ener­gy Mod­el­ing and Pol­i­cy Analy­sis (Under­grad­u­ate!) Team:

The focus of this inter-dis­ci­pli­nary and inter-uni­ver­si­ty research group is to devel­op sus­tain­able ener­gy, water, and land-use sce­nar­ios for Laos, and to work with local stake-hold­ers on the costs and ben­e­fits for com­mu­ni­ties, the nation, and the region­al com­merce in ener­gy, water, food, tim­ber and oth­er commodities.

Aadi­tee Kudrimoti 

Bio: Aadi­tee is a fourth-year at UC Berke­ley study­ing polit­i­cal sci­ence and pub­lic pol­i­cy with a con­cen­tra­tion in ener­gy, devel­op­ment, and inter­na­tion­al rela­tions. Aadi­teeis orig­i­nal­ly from Tuc­son, Ari­zona, where she began to devel­op an inter­est in inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal affairs. At UC Berke­ley, Aadi­teeis work­ing on projects in the polit­i­cal econ­o­my of Chi­nese devel­op­ment finance, rur­al elec­tri­fi­ca­tion, and col­lec­tive action. Aadi­tee­has become espe­cial­ly inter­est­ed in how the rise of renew­able tech­nol­o­gy is influ­enc­ing ener­gy diplo­ma­cy around the world. She hopes to pur­sue a career in acad­e­mia and pub­lic pol­i­cy and work on gov­er­nance tools to build the bar­gain­ing capac­i­ty of LDCs against MNCs, for­eign state-owned enter­pris­es, etc. on the sub­ject of FDI and oth­er types of invest­ment. She sees SWITCH-Laos as hav­ing the poten­tial to serve as a crit­i­cal tool in assist­ing the increase of the Lao people’s bar­gain­ing pow­er over FDI in the ener­gy sec­tor and thus their auton­o­my in deter­min­ing their own eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment. Out­side school, Aaditee’s inter­ests include dance, food jour­nal­ism, and cooking.

Alex Lath­em

Bio: Alex Lath­em is a third-year under­grad­u­ate at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty. He is a physics major with sev­er­al years of expe­ri­ence using pro­gram­ming lan­guages, includ­ing Python SQL, C, and Bash, to ana­lyze sci­en­tif­ic data. Pre­vi­ous research projects Alex has worked on include astrom­e­try of near-Earth aster­oids and the cre­ation of a Hub­ble curve through the analy­sis of Type Ia super­novae. Alex spent the sum­mer of 2019 work­ing on the SWITCH mod­el for Chi­na, and is very excit­ed to apply the skills he learned there to a ver­sion for Laos. Out­side of research, Alex is also inter­est­ed in music, video game design, lin­guis­tics, and history.

Ash­ley Yip

Bio: Ash­ley is a sec­ond-year under­grad­u­ate study­ing envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence with an empha­sis in glob­al pol­i­tics. She moved to New Mex­i­co, where she devel­oped an inter­est in envi­ron­men­tal affairs. At UC Berke­ley, she is involved in a pre-law asso­ci­a­tion that helped her explore her inter­est in law and how she may inte­grate that into envi­ron­men­tal­ism. Off cam­pus, she is work­ing on a sex edu­ca­tion reform project in Sin­ga­pore with the Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion. She is con­stant­ly explor­ing the inter­sec­tion between pol­i­cy, edu­ca­tion, and the envi­ron­ment. She hopes to return home to Sin­ga­pore and pur­sue a career in inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal pol­i­cy or law with­in South­east Asia. Ash­ley chose to work on SWITCH-Laos not only because green­ing ASEAN’s eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment is essen­tial to tack­ling cli­mate change, but also because she is famil­iar with the demo­graph­ic. She has done research in regards to both urban and rur­al agri­cul­ture in Asia and the US, and led research for envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment in busi­ness oper­a­tions. Out­side of school, her inter­ests include climb­ing, hik­ing, piano, and camper vans.

Rachel Ng

Bio: Rachel is a sec­ond-year Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and Data Sci­ence major. A Sin­ga­pore-native, Rachel describes that SWITCH-Laos extreme­ly impor­tant to her because it is an impor­tant step towards the ener­gy secu­ri­ty of South­east Asia. She believes that the sus­tain­able elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of South­east Asia is key to region­al grid sta­bil­i­ty and ener­gy trade. She is pur­su­ing SWITCH-Laos as crit­i­cal in lead­ing the way towards sus­tain­able elec­tri­fi­ca­tion. Rachel is inter­est­ed in the inter­sec­tion­al­i­ty between cli­mate change and com­mu­ni­ty, explor­ing how com­mu­ni­ty based issues caused by cli­mate change can be alle­vi­at­ed through data. Fur­ther­more, Rachel is cur­rent­ly con­cerned about equal access to edu­ca­tion and vol­un­teers week­ly as a men­tor to ele­men­tary school stu­dents. In the future, she hopes to return to Sin­ga­pore and guide envi­ron­men­tal change through cre­at­ing an ecosys­tem of sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties and busi­ness­es. Her hob­bies include dance, rock climb­ing and water sports.

ASEAN grid flexibility: Preparedness for grid integration of renewable energy