The Air We Pay For vs. the Air We Get: Rethinking the Rules of Healthy Buildings
Friday November 20th, 2026 | 10:30am PDT Speaker: Marwa Zaatari, VP of Building Solutions, Aeroseal Join Meeting Better filters must consume more fan energy. More outdoor air must mean cleaner air. A building that meets the standard must perform as intended. But what happens when measurements challenge these assumptions? Drawing on her journey from field […]
The Humphrey Fellowship Returns to UC Davis with 15 Fellows in 2026-27
The prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, a Fulbright exchange, returned to the Energy and Efficiency Institute and the Western Cooling Efficiency Center, bringing opportunities for collaboration, innovation and the exchange of ideas with accomplished and influential mid-career professionals from countries around the world.
WCEC Presented at the Buildings4People Symposium in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sarah Outcault, UC Davis’s Market Transformation Research Director, joined international researchers and local experts at the Buildings4People symposium in Buenos Aires to explore putting people at the center of the built environment.
The Future of “Clean Tech” is Circular: Opportunities for the Next Generation
Friday November 13th, 2026 | 10:30am PDT Join Meeting The Future of “Clean Tech” is Circular: Opportunities for the Next Generation Heidi Sanborn has spent a 35-year career being a thought-leader in waste management utility policy, and for the last 8 years has additionally served as an elected member of the Sacramento Municipal Utility […]
Using Light to Reduce Stress
(From KCRA 3) Researchers at the UC Davis California Lighting Technology Center are studying how lighting affects stress and emotions, with their findings now beginning to influence designs in cars, hospitals, and homes.
What Your Thermostat Schedule Says About You
Researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Stanford analyzed nine years of thermostat data from 1,263 California households and sorted them into five behavioral types.
From Traveler Choices to Network Decisions: Behavior-Aware Optimization for Smart Mobility
Traveler choices shape network flows, while network conditions and mobility service operations influence those choices. Together, these interactions determine not only accessibility and congestion but also transportation energy use, making behavior-aware optimization essential for designing efficient and sustainable mobility systems. Logit-based choice models are often embedded in optimization through nonlinear constraints or bilevel formulations, creating computational difficulties […]
Advancing Energy Innovation in California
This energy seminar will provide an overview of technology innovation and research activities supported through the California Energy Commission that are advancing the state’s clean energy and climate goals, including in the areas of clean energy supply, energy storage, electrification, energy efficiency, demand flexibility, sustainable transportation, building and industrial decarbonization, and the climate-energy nexus. Jonah Steinbuck […]
The Hidden Cost of Oversized Equipment
From air conditioners to electrical panels to data centers, engineers routinely specify equipment bigger than the job requires, to cover uncertainty, future growth, or plain caution.
Getting Retail Electricity Prices Right in an Energy Transition
Decarbonization depends on households switching from fossil fuels to electricity, so the price of electricity is a crucial lever. In such a context, how should prices be set? Economists default to a simple rule: price each kilowatt-hour at its social marginal cost, which is the cost of providing one more unit of electricity to a […]