New Paper Alert! Liu, L., Miranda, M.M., Bielicki, J.M., Ellis, B.R., Johnson, J.X., Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of CO₂-enabled sedimentary basin geothermal, Environmental Science & Technology, accepted, 2023.

New Paper Alert! de Chalendar, J.A., Keskar, A., Johnson, J.X., Mathieu, J., Living laboratories can and should play a greater role to unlock flexibility in U.S. commercial buildings, Joule, accepted, 2023.

Congrats to Ghazal for successfully defending her dissertation. Great job!

New Paper Alert! Lin, A.J., Lei, S., Keskar, A., Hiskens, I., Johnson, J.X., Mathieu, J.L., The Sub-metered HVAC Implemented for Demand Response (SHIFDR) Dataset, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, accepted, 2023.

So grateful for the opportunity to serve as the Senior Faculty Fellow for the KIETS Climate Leaders Program. This is an incredible program that brings together students from across campus to engage with challenging content related to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

New Paper Alert! Luo, Q., Garcia-Menendez, F., Lin, J., He, G., Johnson, J.X., Accelerating China’s power sector decarbonization can save lives: integrating public health goals into power sector investment decisions, Environmental Research Letters, 18 (10), 104023, 2023.

New Paper Alert! Keskar, A., Soni, V., Jain, S., Patel, R., Ghosh, S., Shukla, J., Jain, S., Johnson, J.X., Tapping the Unused Energy Potential of Solar Water Pumps in India, Environmental Science & Technology, 57 (38), 14173–14181, 2023.

I’m very excited that IOP is launching a new open-access journal Environmental Research: Energy and happy to play a role on the Editorial Board. Submit your best work to EREN and expect the same high quality editorial process that you receive from the other IOP journals.

Journal Scope:

Environmental Research: Energy is a multidisciplinary, open access journal devoted to addressing important challenges associated with energy in a way that bridges efforts relating to impact/future risks, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, security and solutions in the broadest sense.

As the energy sector transitions to zero-carbon, addressing climate issues while providing affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy to all will become a key challenge that requires novel solutions. Environmental Research: Energy is committed to publishing research to this cause on topics including (but not limited to):

• Energy demand and efficiency
• Energy models and economics
• Energy policy
• Energy security
• Energy systems analysis
• Energy systems in developed and developing nations
• Energy technologies
• Macro-energy systems
• Renewable and sustainable energy systems
• Smart energy systems (including machine learning and AI)
• Smart grid and low-carbon energy systems

Environmental Research: Energy is looking to appeal to research scientists, economists, engineers, and social scientists who are working towards access to clean and affordable energy for all.

Happy to report that our paper on energy storage modeling (Energy-Storage Modeling: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Directions) won the 2023 PES Prize Paper Award. Big thanks to our many collaborators.

Very grateful and a bit overwhelmed to receive the NC State Outstanding Teacher Award. Many, many thanks to my nominators.

Big congratulations to Adi who successfully defended his PhD. We’re excited to hear about the great things you’ll do at the North Carolina Utilities Commission!

New Paper Alert! Luo, Q., Garcia-Menendez, F., Yang, H., Deshmukh, R., He, G., Lin, J., Johnson, J.X., The health and climate benefits of economic dispatch in China’s power system, Environmental Science & Technology, 57(7), 2898-2906, 2023.

New Paper Alert! Keskar, A., Galik, C., Johnson, J.X., Planning for winter peaking power systems in the United States, Energy Policy, 173, 113376, 2023.

Big congratulations to Qian Luo, who successfully defended her dissertation. Princeton is lucky to have you next year!

New Paper Alert! Luo, Q., Copeland, B., Garcia-Menendez, F., Johnson, J.X., Diverse pathways for power sector decarbonization yield health co-benefits, but fail to alleviate air pollution exposure inequities, Environmental Science & Technology, 56(18), 13274-13283, 2022.

New Paper Alert! Ssengonzi, J., Johnson, J.X., DeCarolis, D., An efficient method to estimate renewable energy capacity credit at increasing regional grid penetration levels, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2, 100033, 2022.

New paper alert! Keskar, A., Lei, S., Webb, T., Nagy, S., Lee, H., Hiskens, I., Mathieu, J., Johnson, J.X., Assessing the performance of global thermostat adjustment in commercial buildings for load shifting demand response, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability

The Symbiotic Relationship of Solar Power and Energy Storage in Providing Capacity Value, Renewable Energy, 177, 823-832, 2021.

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

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