EEC Hosts Mexico-California Energy Efficiency Workshop
A March 31 – April 1 workshop is exploring collaboration opportunities between the University of California/national laboratories & Mexico. View the agenda here.
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 […]
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, […]
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
UC Davis Students Build Solar Homes for Farmworkers
By Gulstan Dart The UC Davis Solar Decathlon Team is building a solar-powered home geared toward the needs of farm workers and low-income communities. Students are building the Aggie Sol home for a competition put on by the US Department of Energy. The house utilizes a sprinkler system to shoot water into the sky from […]
Why the World’s Appetite for Oil Will Peak Soon – Amy Myers Jaffe Featured in Wall Street Journal
By Amy Myers Jaffe The conventional wisdom about steadily rising demand is wrong. Within two decades, global oil use will start to fall. When it comes to oil demand, the conventional wisdom is clear: Population growth and a rising global middle class guarantee that demand—and prices—will rise over the coming decades. It is a story […]
UC Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency Report “A Thirst for Power” cited in New York Times article
By Felicity Barringer, Energy & Environment, The New York Times Troubling Interdependency of Water and Power Coiled throughout the American economy, energy and water are forever linked, an economic version of DNA’s double helix. Continuing efforts to rethink the use of the two resources are underway at the University of California, Davis’s Center for Water-Energy […]