Navigating the Future: Strategic Pathways to Sustainable, Equitable, and Resilient Energy in California
Navigating the Future: Strategic Pathways to Sustainable, Equitable, and Resilient Energy in California
Energy equity and justice in the global energy transition
Energy systems around the world are changing rapidly, accompanied by both new and ongoing economic, social, and justice challenges.
SMUD’s 2030 Zero Carbon Plan: Leaving No Community Behind
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Forgone Summertime Comfort – Energy Poverty in the Summer
Dr. Stasio discusses data-driven approaches to understanding equity and environmental justice in the energy sector.
Data-driven equity and environmental justice analysis
Dr. Stasio discusses data-driven approaches to understanding equity and environmental justice in the energy sector.
Community Engaged Research for Just Energy Services Transitions
People do not need kilowatts; instead, they need the multitude of services provided by access to energy, including thermal comfort, refrigeration of food and medicine, cooking, lighting, communication, and transportation. As socio-technological systems experience rapid transitions associated with addressing climate change, inequity in access, aging infrastructures, and the negative socio-environmental consequences of current energy systems, […]
Community-Owned Broadband – How Electric Co-ops Are Leveraging the Energy Transition to Bridge the Digital Divide
The digital divides hits rural and marginalized communities hardest. Big Broadband providers claim broadband doesn’t “pencil out” in these communities. Yet America’s electric co-ops are filling the void and bridging the digital divide, providing high-speed, world-class broadband in some of the countries most economically challenged communities.
Scaling Grid-Edge Upgrades with Inclusive Utility Investments
What would happen if money-saving energy upgrades could be installed in any sound building without upfront costs or occupants taking on a debt obligation? California’s utility regulators recently ordered investor-owned utilities to develop a tariff for inclusive utility investments, answering a key recommendations in the state’s 2019 Energy Efficiency Action Plan and the CEC’s landmark […]
Electrochemical Wastewater Refining for Circular Chemical Manufacturing
Energy and water are two critical interdependent systems that impact environmental quality and require urgent innovation. Mining critical materials for energy storage requires large freshwater inputs and introduces pollutants to aqueous environments. Treating wastewater and producing potable require substantial energy inputs. Electrochemical wastewater refining, or the generation of tunable product portfolios from waste streams, can […]
End-use electrification and its impact on distribution systems
In what ways will utilities need to upgrade the electric distribution grid to accommodate electrified loads, and what will those upgrades cost? Our study focuses on the PG&E service area in Northern California, which serves 4.8 million electricity customers and is subject to aggressive targets for both EV adoption and electrification of residential space and […]
