Jones, Christopher M.

Chris Jones is lead devel­op­er at the Cool­Cli­mate Net­work, an applied research con­sor­tium at UC Berkeley’s Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry that sup­ports the devel­op­ment of com­pre­hen­sive, social­ly inte­grat­ed car­bon foot­print man­age­ment tools and pro­grams for indi­vid­u­als, schools, busi­ness­es and com­mu­ni­ties. His pri­ma­ry research inter­ests inter­sect the fields of indus­tri­al ecol­o­gy, envi­ron­men­tal psy­chol­o­gy, and cli­mate change pol­i­cy. This research informs, and is informed by, pro­grams and prod­ucts that seek to encour­age more sus­tain­able behav­ior. Jones runs the Cool­Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge, a com­pe­ti­tion between Cal­i­for­nia cities to reduce house­hold car­bon foot­prints. He is co-chair of the Behav­ior, Ener­gy and Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence.

Mileva, Ana

Dr. Mileva‘s work focus­es on mod­el­ing the oper­a­tions of elec­tric­i­ty sys­tems with high pen­e­tra­tion lev­els of inter­mit­tent renew­able ener­gy. She joined E3 in 2014 after com­plet­ing her Ph.D. in the Ener­gy and Resources Group at U.C. Berke­ley. Her doc­tor­al work con­tributed a nov­el mod­el­ing plat­form to explore the fea­si­bil­i­ty and cost of deeply decar­bonized pow­er sys­tems. Ana has wide-rang­ing project expe­ri­ence in the gov­ern­ment, util­i­ty, con­sult­ing, and non-prof­it sec­tors, includ­ing co-author­ing reports for the Cal­i­for­nia Ener­gy Com­mis­sion (CEC) inves­ti­gat­ing deep emis­sion reduc­tion sce­nar­ios for the elec­tric­i­ty sec­tor, con­duct­ing a com­pre­hen­sive review of renew­ables inte­gra­tion research for Pacif­ic Gas and Elec­tric (PG&E), and devel­op­ing an admin­is­tra­tion mod­el for ener­gy effi­cien­cy imple­men­ta­tion for the Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion (CPUC).

Dr. Mileva‘s work focus­es on mod­el­ing the oper­a­tions of elec­tric­i­ty sys­tems with high pen­e­tra­tion lev­els of inter­mit­tent renew­able ener­gy. She joined E3 in 2014 after com­plet­ing her Ph.D. in the Ener­gy and Resources Group at U.C. Berke­ley. Her doc­tor­al work con­tributed a nov­el mod­el­ing plat­form to explore the fea­si­bil­i­ty and cost of deeply decar­bonized pow­er sys­tems. Ana has wide-rang­ing project expe­ri­ence in the gov­ern­ment, util­i­ty, con­sult­ing, and non-prof­it sec­tors, includ­ing co-author­ing reports for the Cal­i­for­nia Ener­gy Com­mis­sion (CEC) inves­ti­gat­ing deep emis­sion reduc­tion sce­nar­ios for the elec­tric­i­ty sec­tor, con­duct­ing a com­pre­hen­sive review of renew­ables inte­gra­tion research for Pacif­ic Gas and Elec­tric (PG&E), and devel­op­ing an admin­is­tra­tion mod­el for ener­gy effi­cien­cy imple­men­ta­tion for the Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion (CPUC).

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Nelson, James H.

Jim­my Nel­son joined UCS in the fall of 2013 as the Cli­mate and Ener­gy Program’s new Kendall Sci­ence Fel­low and will be work­ing from our Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia office through Novem­ber 2014. Lau­ra Wis­land, senior ener­gy ana­lyst in the Cli­mate and Ener­gy Pro­gram, is his supervisor.

As a Kendall sci­ence fel­low, Jim­my will explore sce­nar­ios for the elec­tric pow­er sys­tem of Cal­i­for­nia and west­ern North Amer­i­ca that increase the amount of clean ener­gy deployed in the region while also reduc­ing green­house gas emis­sions from the ener­gy sys­tem. Build­ing on his Ph.D. work, he will use a detailed long-term pow­er sys­tem capac­i­ty plan­ning mod­el called ‘SWITCH’ to base his analy­sis on the capa­bil­i­ties of renew­able elec­tric­i­ty sources to cost-effec­tive­ly meet demand, reli­a­bil­i­ty, clean ener­gy, and green­house gas targets.

Jim­my Nel­son will receive his Ph.D. from the Ener­gy and Resources Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Berke­ley in fall 2013. His grad­u­ate work was per­formed in the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (RAEL) under Pro­fes­sor Daniel Kam­men. Dur­ing his time at RAEL, he received a Link Ener­gy Fel­low­ship. Pri­or to join­ing RAEL, he received a M.S. in chem­istry in 2008 and a B.S. in chem­istry with high hon­ors from Haver­ford Col­lege in 2006.

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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.