This will be a special RAEL lunch to discuss and explore research directions in the emerging area of 'Energy Development in Conflict Settings', where Samira Siddique is working in the Rohingya context, and Hilary Yu is working in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.  More generally, a number of large-scale efforts are emerging on campus […]

Come join a spirited discussion of the process to building process, the politics, and the future of the Tiny House at Berkeley! f

Chris will discuss a re-thinking of what are and have been the most effective measures to achieve California's climate targets.

Sara is an architect who delved into distributed generation while developing fuel cell projects for Bloom Energy. She became interested in the energy industry in general, and specifically the regulatory and finance conditions that make markets more open to uptake of innovative technologies. While her focus is in energy, she is also interested in how […]

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, issued a critical report in October 2018 on the vital need to hold anthropogenic global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius. Humans have already warmed the planet 1 degree C. An about-face on pollution and planetary degradation is needed to achieve this remarkable […]

James Merrick’s research focuses on the improvement of mathematical modeling methods to address a variety of energy and climate planning problems. This talk will discuss this research, with an emphasis on how to structure models to provide economic and policy insight, focusing on appropriate valuation of renewables and energy storage options. James completed his PhD […]