Check out our study quantifying regional emissions reductions and electricity trade impacts from renewables.

What a great team of co-authors for this Joule commentary: Leveraging open source tools for collaborative macro-energy system modeling efforts

This is part of the larger Open Energy Outlook project. Learn more here.

Check out our new LCA on reverse electrodialysis.

We just received funding from the Partnership 2020 program to conduct research on the impacts and benefits of solar water pumping in India. This work will be conducted by PhD student Adi Keskar, in collaboration with faculty at NIT-Raipur.

Lots of press coverage for our e-scooter study! Here are a few:

Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, New York Times, MIT Tech Review, CBS News, CBC Radio, Science Friday, Nature, Bloomberg,The Verge

Our research group was awarded a three-year grant from NSF to study the potential of using energy storage to reduce adverse human health impacts from criteria pollutants. The work will be conducted by PhD student Qian Luo, in collaboration with a great interdisciplinary team: Profs. Fernando Garcia Menendez, Harrison Fell, and Melinda Morrill.

Led by students Joe Hollingsworth and Brenna Copeland, we published a study in Environmental Research Letters quantifying the environmental impacts of shared dockless e-scooters: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2da8

Recent grad Maryam Arbabzadeh led this multi-university study published in Nature Communications on the role that energy storage can play in the deep decarbonization of the grid:

The role of energy storage in deep decarbonization of electricity production,

PhD Student Adi Keskar published the results of experimental work quantifying the efficiency impacts of using commercial buildings for power grid services:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12053-019-09787-x