Friday, November 4, 2022
Lewis M. Fulton
Director, STEPS (Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways)

Lewis Fulton has worked internationally in the field of transportation, energy, and environment analysis and policy development for over 25 years. He is Director of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program (STEPS+) within the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. There he leads a range of research activities around new vehicle technologies and new fuels, and how these can gain rapid acceptance in the market. He also coordinates research across five STEPS+ Centers: Energy Futures Center, the Sustainable Freight Center, the Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center, the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, and the China Center for Energy and Transportation.

From 2007-2012 he was a Senior Transport Specialist with the International Energy Agency, Paris, as well as Division Head for Energy Technology Policy during 2011-2012. He returned to the IEA in 2007 after working there originally from 1999-2005. During 2006-2007 he worked in Kenya with the UN Environment Program, developing and implementing GEF-funded sustainable transport projects around the world. During the 1990s he also worked at the US Department of Energy for 4 years, and taught at the Independent University of Bangladesh and the University of Maryland.

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Friday, December 2, 2022
Alumni Panel: Kristen Bush, Rhys Davis

Kristen Bush:

Kristen Bush is an Engineer/Scientist I on the Electric Transportation team at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). She currently assists with various projects with research topics including transportation equity, infrastructure design, and inventories related to medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles.

Prior to joining EPRI, Bush completed her M.S. in Energy Systems and conducted research through the Energy Graduate Group. There she completed her thesis titled, “Examining Perceptions and Priorities of Heavy-Duty Transportation Electrification Projects: How Considerations of Justice Can Improve Project Implementation in Environmental Justice Communities.” Bush also interned at the California ISO as a Market and Infrastructure Policy Intern where she developed code and used programming to understand the liquidity of bilateral transactions within the region of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC).

Having participated in projects related to energy access, clean transportation, equity, and energy justice, she hopes to contribute to similar efforts throughout her career.

Rhys Davis: 

Rhys Davis is a technical consultant specializing in codes and standards with Resource Refocus, a small energy and building science consulting firm. He is currently developing climate-aligned building codes as well as researching low carbon building design in New York state. As an EGG student at UC Davis, he worked with SMUD to model the grid, carbon, and occupant impacts of multifamily building electrification retrofits. He also worked with the UCD Energy & Engineering team on small building HVAC control and retrocomissioning. As an undergraduate, he studied mechanical engineering at the Ohio State University with a focus on water consumption for power production. Prior to graduate school, he worked in energy efficiency consulting for Go Sustainable Energy in Columbus, and also worked on a farm in central Virginia growing produce and raising chickens. He now lives in Berkeley and still does farm work, now with the UC Gill Tract Farm.

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Electricity demand is growing across the Western United States as economies boom and the transition to electrified transportation and buildings begins. At the same time, state policies are rapidly transforming the mix of power generation sources, from fossil fueled to carbon free. The grid across the Western US has long been interconnected, but its operation has been disunited, with dozens of utilities having responsibility for their individual territories. Regional stakeholders have come to recognize that the lower-carbon grid of the future requires more coordination that is institutionalized through markets. This presentation will discuss the drivers of the current trend toward cooperation, the ongoing success of the Western Energy Imbalance Market and efforts underway to establish a west-wide market operator.

Andrew Campbell is Executive Director of the Energy Institute at Haas at the University of California, Berkeley and serves as a Governing Body Member for the Western Energy Imbalance Market. At the Energy Institute Mr. Campbell serves as a bridge between the research community and business and policy leaders on energy economics and policy topics. Prior to UC Berkeley, Mr. Campbell worked for residential energy management company, Tendril, and grid sensor provider, Sentient Energy. For five years Mr. Campbell served as an advisor at the California Public Utilities Commission. There he led successful efforts on grid modernization and data access, electric vehicle charging, demand response and dynamic pricing. Mr. Campbell has also worked in Citigroup’s Global Energy Group and as a reservoir engineer with ExxonMobil. Mr. Campbell earned bachelor’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics from Rice University and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Friday, November 18, 2022
Andrew Campbell, Executive Director, Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley
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