We will hold the first 'RAEL Lunch' of the 2019 Fall semester next week, September 4, from 12 - 1 pm, in the ERG Reading Room. We will be focusing on short summaries of current and planned RAEL projects, and opportunities for students to get involved.   Please join us.

ERG PhD student Dennis Best will overview his work with the SELF, a San Joaquin (Southern CA Central Valley) Community Development Cooperative that we are working with on a California Energy Commission supported project to develop community clean energy solutions.  

At RAEL lunch today we will: 1) review some of the projects where student opportunities exist; 2) discuss new research opportunities in energy storage integrated with energy systems at scales from: i) second-life of batteries in mini-grids ii) the interactions of utility-scale storage systems in providing storage capacity and other ancillary services (a project with […]

RAEL and GSPP PhD student Kenji Shiraishi - who was involved in the Fukushima-Daiichi cleanup while employed in the Japanese Ministry the Environment -- will present his work on a new geospatial multi-criteria decision analysis method with spatial regression to identify Japan’s high-quality onshore wind energy potential. After identifying the economic potential of grid-connected onshore […]

Using Data Science to Avoid an Existential Climate Crisis Chris Jones, Director CoolClimate Network The climate crisis is upon us. At this point there is little chance of meeting global, national and local climate targets. At best, our collective efforts will prevent some of the worst consequences of climate change from happening this century. This […]