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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.

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.

(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.

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 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.

The electrical panel is the gateway to home electrification. Before adding a heat pump or EV charger, someone has to know which breaker controls what.

In the UC Davis Graduate School of Management’s Sustainable Energy Industry Immersion, Full-Time and Flex MBA students work with graduate students across disciplines to tackle real challenges posed by energy executives.

UC Davis researchers analyzed smart-thermostat data from more than 10,000 homes and found that air conditioning use kept climbing even at temperatures up to 110 °F, so today's AC systems aren't too small to keep up.

Welcome our new EGG students, 4 new research papers, and more!

New research on heat pump water heaters was presented at the 2026 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings tested a smarter approach in real homes, and found it can meaningfully cut costs and emissions, but only where the equipment has room to work.