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Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER)

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

A pathway to clean electricity in 2050

Manufacturing consumer products

A greener way to make raw materials

Removing CO2 from power plant exhaust

Combining capture and disposal

Saving heat until you need it

A new concept for thermal energy storage

Cooling buildings worldwide

Analysis points the way to energy-efficient systems

Quantum dot materials

Optimizing nanostructures for energy devices

Making appliances—and energy grids—more efficient

Conserving energy with the ideal ceiling fan

Cost-competitive electric vehicles that go the distance

Detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models

Advanced modeling and simulation of neutronic and thermal-hydraulic behavior

The Future of Solar Energy

Utility of the Future

Nanowires and graphene

Keys to low-cost, flexible solar cells

The Future of the Electric Grid

Thermophotovoltaics

Enabling efficient energy generation

Batteryless energy harvester

Running electronics on body heat

The Future of Coal

Projects

Design automation of safe, robust, and resilient distributed power systems

Robust wind farm siting and design under climate change-driven wind resource uncertainty

Advanced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) topping cycles: for fission, fusion and solar power plants

Climate change and measures of resiliency: using machine learning to more accurately assess resiliency performance

Building hurricane-resilient smart grids: optimal resource allocation and microgrid operation

Adaptive optimization and learning for daily operation of clean power systems

Building hurricane-resilient smart grids: optimal resource allocation and microgrid operation

Fusion: Robust, radiation resistant, helium-tolerant nanocomposite structural materials for fusion energy power plants

New approaches to graphene manufacturing for photovoltaics

Incorporation of graphene-based materials in transparent electrodes and buffer layers for robust and low-cost photovoltaics

Demand response, energy efficiency, and firm decisions

Rapid deployment systems for lightweight and flexible solar photovoltaic modules

MACE-Meter: Multi-utility Access Consumption Evaluation Meter

Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP)

Optimization for the joint resiliency of power grid and e-transportation

Flexibility and firm power in future zero-carbon power systems

Maximizing security and resilience to cyber-attacks in a power grid

Electric power retail rate design to support decarbonized power systems and economy-wide electrification

Multi-vector energy systems analysis for low-carbon power and transportation

Towards zero-emissions neighborhoods: a novel building-grid optimization framework

Publications

The role of fusion energy in a decarbonized electricity system

September 2024

Modeling Impacts of Tracking on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Photovoltaic Power

July 2019

Clean electricity procurement for electrolytic hydrogen: A framework for determining time-matching requirements

April 2023

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