Check out our study quantifying regional emissions reductions and electricity trade impacts from renewables.
Author Archives
Joule Commentary on leveraging open source tools for energy models
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.
Journal of Industrial Ecology: LCA of Reverse Electrodialysis
Check out our new LCA on reverse electrodialysis.
Partnership 2020 Grant – solar water pumping in India
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.
E-Scooter Media Coverage
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
NSF grant to study the use of energy storage to improve human health
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.
New paper: are e-scooters polluters?
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
New paper: the role of energy storage in deep decarbonization
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,
New paper: energy efficiency impacts of commercial building load following
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
Adi and Joe present their research at Engineering Sustainability 2019 in Pittsburgh

