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Modeling the Clean Energy Transition in China
Amid growing California-China clean energy partnerships RAEL is partnering with both research and deployment partners in China to accelerate the decarbonization agenda. In efforts with Tsinghua University, Chongqing University, and North China Electric Power University, among other academic partners, as well as with local and federal partners in China, RAEL is working to accelerate the deployment of electric […]
Published in Yale Environment 360: Taking the Long View: The ‘Forever Legacy’ of Climate Change
Taking the Long View: The ‘Forever Legacy’ of Climate Change Climate change projections often focus on 2100. But the geological record shows that unless we rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we will be locking in drastic increases in temperatures and sea levels that will alter the earth not just for centuries, but for millennia. By ROB WILDER AND DAN KAMMEN […]
Yale Climate Connections: Wind and solar key in 21st century energy economy
For the article and video, click here. Economics, technology, and global public opinion are driving the surge in wind and solar renewable energy resources, with changes developing at a pace few had anticipated. A “revolution” in use of renewable energy is embracing not only the electrical sector, but also, and increasingly, the transportation sector, the […]
RAEL team publishes Power sector model for a low-carbon Kenya
Click here for a direct link to the paper, published in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T). Fast growing and emerging economies face the dual challenge of sustainably expanding and improving their energy supply and reliability while at the same time reducing poverty. Critical to such transformation is to provide affordable and sustainable access to […]
New Initiative for SDG7: RAEL/UC Berkeley-Berlin Reiner Lemoine Institute Energy Access Group
RAEL looks forward to a new partnership with the Reiner-Lemoine Institute in Berlin, Germany. On August 28th, RLI and RAEL together will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the scope of their partnership. In this initiative, the partners have created the Berkeley-Berlin Energy Access Group (BBEAG) headed by Philipp Blechinger and Daniel Kammen. At RLI, Philipp […]
Upcoming Events
Dr. Alan Lamont — RAEL Lunch, September 27, “Visualizing cost efficient pathways to a low carbon electric system”
Dr Alan Lamont holds BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering and PhD in Engineering Economic Systems, all from Stanford He is recently retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was an engineer for 29 years. His work included economic analysis of energy systems, along with risk and decision analysis for infrastructure, nuclear facilities and […]