Rethinking Trade Exposure: The US Nitrogenous Fertilizer Industry
Jacob Humber from UC Davis October 28, 2015
Team Aggie Sol Wins Two Categories in U.S. DOE’s Solar Decathlon Competition
By Kat Kerlin Team Aggie Sol set out in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon to show that zero-net energy construction can be affordable. The team succeeded, tying for first place in the competition’s affordability contest. Team Aggie Sol also tied for first in the commuting contest, in which the decathlon called for each […]
UC Davis One Step Closer to Creating Zero-Net Energy Village
By Mike Luery | KCRA News Click here to view the TV report. A report released Wednesday by the University of California, Davis, shows the university is now one step closer to creating a community that produces as much energy as it uses. West Village, located on UC Davis land near the school campus center, […]
UC Davis Energy Manager Teaches Class in Denmark
By BreAnda Northcutt A unique partnership between UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and Denmark’s Aalborg and Technical universities is helping find common ways to solve today’s energy challenges – despite the 5,259 miles that separate the two universities. Having recently returned from a week in Denmark teaching international students, Josh Morejohn, Energy Manager in UC […]
Sierra magazine: UC Davis is green and cool, again
By Dave Jones Originally posted on UC Davis News So cool, so green! That’s what Sierra magazine says about the University of California, Davis — ranked No. 2 in the magazine’s 2015 “Cool Schools” report, released today (Aug. 11). This makes four out of the past five years that UC Davis has been among the […]
Students Get Hands-on Energy Efficiency Experience in Zero Net Energy Initiative Class
Can the UC Davis campus achieve the goal of zero net energy by 2025? The students enrolled in the class A Path to Zero Net Energy: A Hands-on Approach are doing their part to foster significant energy improvements here at UC Davis. Taught by Program for International Energy Technologies (PIET) and D-Lab Director Kurt Kornbluth, […]
CCC conducts energy audit of Santa Cruz High
By Joel Hersch With all of its students out for summer break, Santa Cruz High School was almost completely quiet on Friday morning, save a small team of young California Conservation Corps members who were conducting an energy audit of the building. The seven-member team, accompanied by several state and school officials, canvassed the building, […]
Nine months in, a family of four adjusts to life in the Honda Smart Home, a testing ground for new technologies at UC Davis
By Ucilia Wang Smithsonian.com At first glance, it looks like an ordinary home with a neat yard. Inside there is a wooden dining table and chairs, a taupe sectional sofa, a 65 inch built in flat screen TV in one living room wall and a white kitchen with silver appliances. But the house, on the […]
UC Davis Grad Student Researcher and EEC Analyst Marco Pritoni Quoted in Washington Post on Consumer Misuse of Thermostats
UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center Graduate Student Researcher Marco Pritoni, who serves as an Emerging Ventures Analyst for the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, is quoted prominently in a July 7 Washington Post article on consumer misuse of programmable thermostats: Many people have no idea how to use their thermostats — and it’s costing […]
Japan’s 6 GW Lunch Break
By Kadir Bedir, Alan Meier, Sho Hirayama, & Hidetoshi Nakagami View Publication View Poster
